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Reading Units of Study
All first graders in the South Lyon Community Schools will participate in the following units of study throughout their first grade year.
Wall Words
Below is a complete list of our first grade Wall Words. Students will focus on 5 words per week throughout the school year.
Reader's Workshop
During Readers' Workshop, reading instruction takes place with the whole class, small groups, partners, and individual students. Development of reading strategies is the focus of this time. Guided reading in small groups or with individual students utilizes leveled books. During the independent reading portion of the workshop, students read Just Right Books - books they select that can be read without help. Our classroom has a wide variety of books and poems for shared reading, posters, magazines, computer activities, and a teacher who loves reading to children and teaching them about reading! The Structure of our Reader's Workshop: Minilesson
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Shared Reading
Shared reading allows students to participate in reading material that may be beyond their reading levels. The teacher models a reading strategy to the whole class using enlarged text (ex. big books, basal anthology story, morning message on chart paper). Students all have access to and can interact with the text. Read Alouds The teacher reads a selection to the class from a book, magazine, poem or other print material for a specific purpose. It's an opportunity for teachers to model reading fluency and reading/writing strategies. This can be done at any part of the school day:
Small Group Reading (Guided Reading) Guided Reading is designed to help students learn how to problem solve increasingly challenging texts with understanding and fluency.
Reading Conferences While the children are reading independently, the teacher provides direct instruction to a group of students (guided reading) or to individual students (conferences). These conferences have a certain structure to be effective. The teacher:
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