I work in a 4th grade inclusion room as a special ed. teacher and I am always struggling with time with my students. Many of my students are only on a 1st grade reading level. Many of them do not know the sounds of the letters of the alphabet, so it makes it very hard for them to read. We are constantly working on letter sound correspondance as well as decoding. I found that getting the kids to all participate in my classroom I must make it fun and exciting. I use the program "Words their Way". It is a great program that allows the students to work on their letter sounds and each activity focuses on a different sound, such as long and short vowel sounds, consonant sounds, blends and digraphs. I have found that this program allows my students to sit as a group to participate in more of an intense learning situtaion than reading as a group and struggling with many of the words. After doing an activity for about 15 minutes I then have them read a short story that focuses on that activity we did. I feel that "Words their Way" warms the students up and gets their brains working and then I can also see the transfer from the activity to the actualy practice of reading the story.
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