I love using these reading rods with
my kindergarten reading groups.
Not exact matches
By the fall of their
kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P
group scored higher than the children in the control
group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills,
reading fluency and academic performance upon entering
kindergarten.
In a
kindergarten classroom recently, most of the ESOL students were actively engaged while we were
reading the story aloud as a whole
group.
The curricular hallmark of the partnership is «book buddies,» which pairs rotating
groups of elders and
kindergarten students who
read to one another for about 30 minutes several times a week.
Starting in
kindergarten and continuing throughout elementary school, students participated in
group activities like storytelling, playing games, discussions, paired
reading, and role - playing, as well as watching films and doing arts and crafts.
In one, researchers examined how SEL intervention programs (such as social skills training, parent training with home visits, peer coaching,
reading tutoring, and classroom social - emotional curricula) for
kindergarten students impacted their adult lives, and found that these programs led to 10 % (59 % vs. 69 % for the control
group) fewer psychological, behavioral, or substance abuse problems at the age of 25 (Dodge et al., 2014).
place in whole -
group format, a common method of
reading aloud to
kindergarten children.
A
kindergarten teacher has noticed that one of the leveled
reading groups is struggling to decode words with long vowel sounds.
If you are the parent of a preschool - K child: You can teach your child to
read and be in the top
group when entering
kindergarten or first grade.
You can teach your child to
read and be in the top
group when entering
kindergarten or first grade.
Students need to receive instruction in vocabulary as soon as they enter
kindergarten, in the form of interactive
read - alouds and in small
group guided
reading.
Individual achievement test scores can be misleading at the pre-school and
kindergarten levels, if the child is already
reading and doing arithmetic — these abilities are not expected in this age
group, so precocious readers or mathies will score significantly above their age level, just because they are precocious readers or mathies.
This workshop will focus on Pedagogical documentation and small
group reading instruction in the
Kindergarten and grade one classroom.
For
reading comprehension in grade 1 and concepts of print in
kindergarten, the coding of small -
group instruction was positively related to students»
reading growth.
Ms. Lawson, another
kindergarten teacher, also uses small
groups for
reading instruction, but she relies on lower - level questioning about text more than Ms. Jackson does.
CEO and founder Jane Hileman, then working as a
reading specialist, challenged a
group of second graders
reading on a
kindergarten level to
read 100 books.
Engaging students in small
group instruction was positively related to
reading growth in
kindergarten and grade 1, whereas whole - class or large -
group instruction was positively related to
reading growth in grades 4 - 6.
Finding nonfiction texts at an appropriate level for
kindergarten guided
reading groups is a difficult (and often expensive!!)
Preliminary outcome data suggest that students in K - 3 Plus enter
kindergarten with higher scores in
reading, writing and numeracy than the students that were randomly assigned to the control
group.
Kindergarten students at Aspire Inskeep Academy in South Los Angeles gather in
groups during a
reading lesson.
I've been touring around Nevada (Las Vegas, Henderson, and Boulder City)
reading Granny's Cobbler, teaching math lessons, and introducing the writing process to over 50
groups of children,
kindergarten through third grade.
But if you know the alphabet, or if you can
read when you enter
kindergarten, but you can't sit still, or you can't wait your turn, or you can't function well in a
group or control your impulses, how you deal with other children, you are not going to succeed in school no matter how advanced your literacy competency is.
Children in the delayed
group entered
kindergarten with higher
reading and mathematics scores, yet achievement differences were negligible by the end of third grade.
Because there were so many good essays, Cale and her parents, who
read them all, awarded a $ 50 savings bond to one student from each age
group entered —
kindergarten through sixth grade.The grand prize was a $ 50 savings bond and a dinner for the winner, a fifth grader, and her mom.