Phonics

time; spelling was never really a strong suit for me not until much, much later. Second grade was back with Mrs. Crawford again. This was another excellent year because she was the teacher that got to teach us phonics, yes we waited until second grade to really delve into the world of phonics rather than kindergarten like the do now. Also, second grade is where we really started getting science and social studies for the first time. Back then we only had reading, math, spelling, and other…

common threads in assessment tools that were utilized were formative assessments, DRA, I-Ready, weekly reading assessments in Journeys. Ms. Lockhart informed me that for interventions she uses Journeys PMP (progress monitoring plan), Quick Reads, Phonics for Reading, and Super…

reading skills. Students that lack at these skills will have trouble with sound-symbol association and blending. The Learning First Alliance also added the second which focuses alphabetic code, phonics and decoding, for accurate reading the student depends on phonic knowledge. When this knowledge of phonics is present a student does not need to depend on context clues to decipher a word,…

Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition, or CIRC, is a reading and writing team focused, fast-paced curriculum typically implemented in second through eighth grade classrooms. As its name indicates, the program’s main focus is to have students work together in groups with varying achievement levels in order to learn from one another and achieve one main goal, to be successful in reading and writing. Instructors are provided with daily 90-minute lessons of direct instruction and group work…

attribute to dyslexia. My spelling is still not great, fairly often I will have spelling mistakes when there is no auto correct. My reading is great when I use phonics, I am now about to understand the words I sound out, however I am still not very good at sight words. Most of the time this does not hinder me because I just rely on phonics, however I do read slower and when I have to read out loud I have a very hard time keeping the pace and flow of words that is to be expected. I was lucky…

When the students were practising cursive, they were also working on their phonics. Every time they wrote a letter, they practiced the sound the letter makes. Alternatively, they pretended to write letters in the air with their fingers when practicing phonics. Everyone was always doing something. Describe the academic and social-emotional support teachers provided students to promote child development and learning…

the letter, traced the letter, named pictures that start with the letter, and read their My Kk and My Hh book. Children revisited their Halloween writing piece and added more details. On Thursday, children worked on word writing and practiced phonics for an assessment. Friday, children made “fire fingers” and wrote about a firetruck in their poetry journal. For math, children learned about hexagons, trapezoids, and rhombuses. They were able to place the shapes onto a paper design and…

The biggest struggle I see on my current campus, which is primarily bilingual, is that my teachers are unprepared and lack the knowledge of how to teach English Language Learners. Most of them are phenomenal monolingual teachers, but do not know how to differentiate their teaching for ELL students. So, in hopes of finding strategies and techniques that can be implemented in my Bilingual and ELL classrooms, I selected Reading Strategies for my Literature Review topic. Reading the articles I…

started to review their phonics…

does well in math, and is on Tier 2. Jacob is in Tier 2 due to his struggles with comprehension of word problems. However, Jacob is in Tier 3 for reading. In the area of reading, Jacob struggles with all basic concepts. Jacob has difficultly with phonics, fluency, comprehension, and his language skills are weak. According to the categories of disability under the IDEA, Jacob’s disability classification would be considered Other Health Impairment. Other Health Impairment means that the child…