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A Reading "Garden" is Blooming!

My students and I will design and create a special reading place for our classroom a… “Reading Garden”.  Just as a vegetable garden has many different sections, our “Reading Garden” will have five sections.  These sections will be the five key elements to effective reading instruction: phonics, phonemic awareness, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. In addition, without realizing it the students will be immersed in the skills they require to be on grade level readers.  I hope that engaging the students in the planning and construction of this project will create the ownership necessary to get them hooked on reading.
 

Our "Garden" is Beginning to Bloom

 

 

 

 

 

After an intensive study of genre, the students sorted our classroom library by genre.  We discovered that we needed more science fiction, poetry and non-fiction, so we went shopping!  Each of the students in my 3rd Grade Strategies Class purchased two new books for our classroom library.  We are now working on identifying which books have Reading Counts quizzes so we can label them and use them in the "Comprehension" section of our "Garden".


Jan. 15, 2008

Our Fluency Section is "BLOOMING"!

This is the fluency section of our garden.

"Sink My Sight Words" is a game designed to help students improve flunecy by increasing their sight word knowledge.

"Readers' Theater" is a great way for students to have fun with repeated readings.

"Reading First Listening Center Skill Pack" guides students through various skills that will improve fluency.

"Beat the Clock" is another game that focuses on sight words.

"Building Fluency Card Bank" allows students to independently move through 10 levels as their fluency improves.

The students also purchased timers that they can use with Read Naturally!