I hope you have been adding some sparkle to your reading program and now is the time to step it up and bit.
March is here and the year is sliding by. Is it just me or did this happen quick as a snap? Here are some readers that can be used with any program to enhance your small and large group instruction.
So as I move around my district as a Common Core teacher I have been in many kindergarten classrooms asking them what emergent readers they would like to have. These are four new Sparkle Readers I have created just for them. I have a balance of fiction and non fiction so that our children are building crucial academic vocabulary and knowledge which is age appropriate. These can be found in my TpT store and have sentence builders to go in the pocket chart. Each book has a sentence with a focus on "I like" and then a second one with a repetitive piece. There are a variety of activities provided to keep your students engaged such as word writing, counting by 10's, cut and paste, and working with transition words. Why do I have two lines? Common Core tells us that our children need to build stamina and be challenged! I am taking it up a notch and with repetitive text my ELL's will work on wrapping around which is crucial for first grade. It is March and I need to get them on the path to becoming first graders! No more little foldables... on to the real work of learning to read. Dots are provided to help children track these words as they sweep around the text. Are you up for the challenge? Check them out here!
I love your books and use them often but I'm limited on copies so I can only use them with small groups. How many copies are your teachers given each year. We're given ten thousand for the entire school year. It's hard to run a strong program without the materials to support it.
ReplyDeleteWe have no limit and I would be at a loss if I had to watch those numbers. Maybe you can ask your principal to allow you extra since this adds real value to your program! It's worth a try.
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