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
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They must be felt within the heart.
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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 . 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
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