So, yesterday during our writing time, I tried this thing called a Language Experience Approach or LEA. There's lots of research done on this by Morris and Slavin. I borrowed the book Chalk by Bill Thompson. It's a wordless picture book. I was wondering how this would work considering I'm trying to teach my Kindergarteners to read yet, I'm using a book with no words. But anyway, we "read" the book 3 times. First, I just turned the pages slowly letting the students just look at the pictures. They were quite engaged and surprising quiet while doing so. Second, we "read" it again. This time we told what was going on in each picture. Third, we "read" it again but this time I wrote down what the students told me that was going on in the pictures. We ended up with an incredible story, where the chalk dinosaur came alive! I even had a student asked, "Why didn't they just draw the dinosaur smaller then he could have tried to eat them." What an imagination?! We read the story that we had written a couple of times practicing concept of word. Then, I got extra copies of the book and had the students at their table groups "read/retell" the story to each other. I made a big deal about how they are reading the book. The students loved it! I am now a HUGE fan of the Language Experience Approach! Pics to come!
I saw Disney's Animal Cats. It reminded me of our text we read in Kindergarten Animal Park.
Disney's Animal Cats is all about the big cats of Africa. Have your child tell you about the story we read Animals Park and discuss with your child: "How are Animal Cats and Animal Park similar? How are they different? |
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