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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can you explain to me how you got the kid who didn’t know letters from numbers to learn how to read? I am fascinated [/quote]

I start by teaching the letters and the numbers.  We read lots of counting books and alphabet books.  We "write" our own number books and ABC books.  We do a lot of sorting of numbers and letters.  Morning message, where you write a message on the board and read it each day, is a time to repeatedly go over the concepts of letters and words and the spaces between them.  We do a lot of work with their own names to help them learn those letters.

We teach letter sounds while we are also teaching those concepts so hopefully, by the end of October, everyone or nearly everyone has all the sounds.  Then say, 2nd quarter, we're working on sight words and CVC decoding and reading sentences with those (and writing them.)  3rd quarter its more sight words, CVC and CVCC or CCVC words, digraphs, blends, and 2-3 sentence books, and 2 sentence writing.  By 4th, we're working on long vowel words, writing multiple sentences on a topic, more sight words, etc.
The students who are the most successful are those without extreme behaviors and with parents who will read to them at night.  When we have kids who don't have support at home, we have two school wide TA's who pull them aside and try and read at least one book with them 1:1 at few days a week.  While kids wait outside the classroom to come in at the bell, we have baskets of books for them to read.  There are also books in the lunchroom so if a kid finishes lunch early, they can grab a book and read there.

We also have writing workshop each day in kindergarten where kids spend 15 minutes or so each day writing.  That starts with drawing their own story, then drawing and labeling, even with just the first sound.  Then drawing, labeling, and writing a word.  We move onto sentences and drawing.  We coordinate our writing with the sight words and the phonics skills we are teaching so they are learning to encode as well as decode.  Basically, we spend a LOT of time reading and writing.  I try to do at least 2 read alouds in our half day program.  When we move to full day, I hope to do 3-4 read aloud books.

I do think that it helps that while our families struggle financially and many are learning English, that a good chunk of the families have enough of their basic survival needs met.  This allows them to attend to school at least a little bit.

This is all in half day kindergarten btw.  Next year we go to full day and plan to incorporate more play time along with additional reading and math time.  I absolutely love teaching kindergarten.  The amount of growth we see is really lovely.  Don't get me wrong, I've been tempted to leave to do something else, just like most other teachers.  But its the kids that keep me coming back.  [/quote]

I love this....balanced literacy at work![/quote]

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