My students need an 1 ipod so they can work on becoming a fluent reader, and two sets of headphones so that they can work with a partner on their fluency.
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I am the only first grade teacher in our school. We are a rural school that has all different levels of students in one classroom. We are a great school that works hard on getting students to grade level in reading.
In the first grade school year, students have to go from reading very few words at the beginning of the year to reading forty words in one minute by the end of the year. They have to become a very fluent reader to do this. They need to hear themselves read and to be able to practice sight words on their own. We have a smartboard in our classroom and the students have taken off with this. They want to go to the next level and the ipod is where we are headed.
The ipod will benefit our class in a variety of ways. We only put in for one because we want to make sure that we can use it correctly before we ask for more. The ipod will record the student's reading to themselves and then we can play it back. This will help the student to understand where they are having problems. This will help me to understand what intervention each child will need. Also, the ipod has a flashcard application and we use flashcards for everything. (Everything being sight words, math facts, word families, and alphabet letters.) The ipod has so much that the kids can use. We can play online educational games developed around lessons that they are learning in the core areas.
Your help will ensure that the majority of my students will be reading at grade level by the end of first grade. This is a huge accomplishment for first graders. Their vocabulary gains countless words each day. With your help we can make they gain the correct words they need to become life long readers.
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