Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Reading Sight Words

                                                             Final Assesment
                                                    
                                                          Reading Sight Words

Purpose: The purpose of this assesment is to help young students develop and understand how pictures can help them read and recognize sight words.

Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to match flash cards to make the picture of the sight words.
  • Students will be able to match the first letter with the proper picture clue.
  • Students will be able to match all the flash cards in the letter form to make a word.
  • Student will finally be able to recognize and read sight words on their own in their reading.
Assessing:
  • Have students play with reversible picture/letter sight word cards.
  • Match the beginning letter with the correct picture/site word.
  • Students have to turn cards over on the letter side and sound the letters out and blend the letter together so the word can be formed.
  • I will read to the children in a small group. As I read to the children they can follow and circle the sight words.
  • finally being able to recognize and read the sight words on their own.
Holistic Rubric:

Proficient- The student can recognize pictures, letters, form words and circle words without the picture prompt. The student has developed the understanding of how read site words.

Adequate- The student can recognize the picture and match it with the letters to form a word.

Limited-  The student can recognize the picture by telling me what it is.

Test:

Since the children are young they will not require that much time to stay focused, so only allowing 10 min for each student should be enough for the test.

  • How many picture sight words do they know. (showing them picture flashcards and they tell me the words).
  • How many sight words do they know without pictures. (showing them just word cards without pictures).
  • How many sight words are they circling correctly in the book as we read together.    

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Better Known as PALS

                                                                Teaching Young Children

                          Topic: Teaching Young Children To Help In Teaching Each Other (PALS) 

Objective 1: Break Children into two groups. I like to call them, the Nifty Foxes and the Eager Beavers. According to the PALS, the two groups are called the Coach and the Reader.

Objective 2: The teacher then teaches the Nifty Reader on how to coach the reader by supplying various games and approaches to make it helpful to the reader to better understand the joy of reading and learning.

Objective 3: As the Eager Beavers are learning so are the Nifty foxes. There is a great learning experience that stems from the peer to peer interaction. The thrill of learning how to read and the boost of self-esteem that is placed in the  Nifty Fox as they know they have helped their friend learn how to read.   


De'Zebbra White