My students need reading trackers, white boards, magnetic letters and journals to assist in accuracy, fluency and comprehension of instructional level text.
My 3rd grade Lakers are determined to be readers. We work in my classroom to increase our reading level, develop of love and purpose for reading and improve our skills so that we can read with ease. Our 3rd Grade Laker Readers are SUCCEEDERS! :)
We are 3rd grade students in a rural Ohio school.
Our classroom serves as a double dose of reading in order to bridge the gap between their instructional level and their chronological/grade level. We have students that are reading a year below grade level and some students that with the help of hard work and intervention are close to reading grade level text. We work daily in a small group setting (1:4 teacher/student ratio) for 30 minutes daily as an additional reading group to master skills like fluency, accuracy, oral and written comprehension at their instructional level as well as practice with grade level passages. We also work on decoding skills, mastering word families, and trudging through all of the exceptions of our English language. We are blessed to have the intervention time that we have, and now, we could use the supplies to make the experience even better.
My Project
Our Lakers will use the materials requested on a daily basis to aide in improving reading fluency and accuracy, improving written language, decoding skills and written comprehension. We will use the reading trackers to allow our students to focus on sentence by sentence, yet still using strategies like context clues to increase our accuracy. We will use white boards and magnetic letters to show word patterns/families, practice our word sorts and learn our decoding rules, and we will use composition journals to take what we have learned from our books and show what we know by summarizing our stories, answering questions and relating our stories to our own life experiences.
We work in a small group setting for 30 minutes daily as an additional reading group to master skills like fluency, accuracy, oral and written comprehension at their instructional level as well as practice with 3rd grade passages.
We also work on decoding skills, mastering word families, and word sort practice. We are blessed to have the daily small group intervention time that we have, and now, we could use the supplies to make the experience even better.
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