Lori, thank you for breaking your no work until July rule. I am going to be teaching K for the first time next year and have been wanting to post but didn't know what to say. Your post and all those who have responded are giving me a direction in which to start my summer reading. I have a few questions.
1. You said that you "have been SLOWLY trying to break out of the "letter of the week" system that my team uses". Our teachers have always used this model but I didn't want to. We have the fundations program by Wilson. I have not looked at it that much for K. My thinking was to use a reading/writing workshop model and incorporate this into it. How have you tried to not do a letter a week? 2. I too taught first grade for 3 years and 2nd grade last year. I have never taught K. What advice would you and others give me? 3. I have veteran teachers in my county that think K can't learn reading comprehension strategies. Do you start these at the beginning like you did in 1st after introducing certain fundamentals of reading workshop. I know that with K you have to build knowledge of print concepts and books. I have used Debbie Miller's book in the past to guide my reading comprehension instruction. I am also currently reading To Understand. Thanks for helping me, Kendra
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