Friday, October 4, 2013
Incorporating Journeys into Daily 5
I think many of the Journey lessons will lend themselves nicely to the Daily 5 as mini-lessons. I have already used the mini-lesson for writing (labeling) as one example. Next week I am going to use the interactive read aloud as another mini-lesson prior to letting them move into their Daily 5 time. My other mini-lesson will be teaching a reading strategy prior to a Daily 5 time. Im hoping my time management work out and there is still enough time to teach the math and Project Read lessons!
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I have been incorporating some of the Journeys mini-lessons prior to our Daily 5 also, Susan. Next week, I am going to do some more work with Captions and have the kids try to do a caption activity for Work on writing.
ReplyDeleteLaura...I would love to sit down and look over a guided reading lesson. I was thinking I could take pieces of the language and format and use them in my lessons. I would be helpful to know what my students will be doing next year in first grade. I briefly looked over some of the materials in Jen's room Friday. Do you have any level A materials? We will have to sit down soon!
ReplyDeleteToday I tried using the interactive read aloud as a mini lesson on characters prior to the children practicing their read to self time. Unfortunately I didn't have enough time before lunch but picked up with it after. A few of the children were able to tell me about a character from one of the stories in their book boxes. We still need more practice with this. We then used the Journey's writing lesson on captions as a mini lesson and then the children moved into work on writing. Only a couple chose to write about animals (connecting to the caption activity of the family at the zoo) but that's ok because Im really trying to teach them about generating their own ideas when writing. Writing about animals was only meant to be one possibility for them. They seem to be doing better during their writing time than their reading time. Should be ready to introduce read to someone next week. Fingers crossed!
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