Hi, Thank you for this information. I'm going to pass it on to the K teacher at my school who wants to make her literacy practice more relevant to her students. Elisa
Elisa Waingort Grade 2 Spanish Bilingual Dalhousie Elementary Calgary, Canada The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart. —Helen Keller Visit my blog, A Teacher's Ruminations, and post a message. http://waingortgrade2spanishbilingual.blogspot.com/ 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.
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