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Ms. Freehill’s Classroom Edit display name

  • Emerald Academy
  • Knoxville, TN
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households

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In our classroom, every day scholars visit a different literacy center to complete learning activities that reinforce learning, as well as provide challenge and enrichment. The centers need to be engaging and fun in order to hold the attention of the first graders, while the teachers are pulling skill based reading groups in order to meet with each child individually. With these portable CD players, our scholars will have the opportunity to visit a listening center each week where they can pick out a book and listen to an audio disc that reads the book aloud to them as they follow along. This center will enhance the reading fluency of my students! It is imperative that students are exposed to fluent reading on a regular basis and this center will give my students that opportunity! Even though some of my students do not hear fluent reading very often at home, with this center they will receive that exposure on a regular basis.

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In our classroom, every day scholars visit a different literacy center to complete learning activities that reinforce learning, as well as provide challenge and enrichment. The centers need to be engaging and fun in order to hold the attention of the first graders, while the teachers are pulling skill based reading groups in order to meet with each child individually. With these portable CD players, our scholars will have the opportunity to visit a listening center each week where they can pick out a book and listen to an audio disc that reads the book aloud to them as they follow along. This center will enhance the reading fluency of my students! It is imperative that students are exposed to fluent reading on a regular basis and this center will give my students that opportunity! Even though some of my students do not hear fluent reading very often at home, with this center they will receive that exposure on a regular basis.

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