Read to Someone

    I love the Daily 5. The Daily 5 is a series of literacy tasks that students complete daily while I work with small groups or individuals. It is a management system that helps our kiddos develop the daily habits of reading, writing, and working with their peers that will lead to independent literacy. Our kids can read to self, work on writing and do word work for quite a while now independently-they have built up a lot of stamina. Friday we started working on read to someone. With read to someone (and all of the Daily 5) I don't just send the kids off without direction. I teach a reading strategy/writing lesson, model it and then I send them off to work on it while I work/conference with groups or individuals. 

    

    This week our reading focus has been reading with fluency and expression. Fluency is the ability to read with speed, accuracy, and proper expression. In order to understand what they read, children must be able to read fluently whether they are reading aloud or silently. When reading aloud, fluent readers read in phrases and add intonation appropriately. Their reading is smooth and has expression. During read to self time, our kids were asked to pick a book or a chapter from a book to practise. If there was an exclamation point at the end of a sentence they had to read that sentence like they were excited, if there was a question mark we talked about how our voice goes up a little at the end when we are asking questions.  The kiddos practised during read to self time and then they had to read to someone fluently and with expression.

Everyone was on task-they love partner work like this!

Elephant and Piggie books were a popular choice for reading with expression. They are definitely a class favourite!

A perfect example on how we sit EEKK during read to someone. Elbow to elbow, knee to knee, I'll read to you, you read to me. Elbow to elbow, knee to knee, book in the middle, so we can both see!

Lots of expression from these two! A neighbouring teacher had to come out to see what  book they were reading as it sounded very exciting!

Mrs. Ashley Daley-Creamer