Language

 

The reading strategy we will focus on for the next two weeks is Visualization. As adults, when we are reading we are constantly making pictures in our head regarding what the characters look like and the setting and other pictures. Young children need to learn how to do this, so when they are older and there are no pictures in the books they are reading they will be successful at creating the visualizations by using the words described by the author.

 

 

When I taught grade one, I always found the children were more successful  and easier to make visualizations using a poem. The children have had some practise with this strategy by making pictures of what they visualized using some of the words from the poem. This will be a learning centre and the children will work with me or a volunteer in a very small group.

 

 

The By Heart Word for this week is:  by. The SK children who practise these words are the most successful in their reading and their writing. I encourage all the SK parents to continue to practise these words with your child once a week during the summer. Make it fun by playing fish.

 

The Jolly phonics sound will be the "g" sound. The children sometimes get the "g" and the "j" sound confused. So this is a good time to review this sound again.