No More Letter of the Week is a book that has been around for a while. I had actually recommended it to a principal, without having seen it, when she was looking to move teachers from "A Week" teaching . However, it gathered dust up until this past year when a group of our kindergarten teachers undertook a grassroots book study of Sue Kempton's wonderful book, The Literate Kindergarten. and Kempton talks about using this approach to introducing letters. Here is why I think it works. The emphasis is on quick and complete introduction. Letters are associated with pictures that do not represent the beginning sound, but the sound itself. Each has a clever little rhyme that the kids just love. R is a dog, because a growling dog goes rrrr. That sort of thing. Teachers construct a large b.b.--rather like a word wall. Each letter is associated with the image that associates the sound and a child is appointed as the expert for this letter. An excerpt from a book highlighting the sound is displayed on sentence strip, creating a pocket for a book. The whole thing is terribly interactive and visually inviting. The kids amaze me--they don't just know the letters, they know the sound and many can read every sentence on the board!
http://www.crystalspringsbooks.com/7508/7508.html Lori Jackson District Literacy Coach and Mentor Todd County School District Box 87 Mission SD 5755 > > > **************Need a job? Find an employment agency near you. > (http://yellowpages.aol.com/search?query=employment_agencies&ncid=emlcntusyelp00000003) > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > > > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
