Early Literacy Leaders
Issue 4, November's Updates and Tips
ESSENTIAL PRACTICES LIVE IN EVERY CLASSROOM EVERYDAY!
Essential #4 Playing with sounds in words
In small groups, teachers can engage children in games and activities that play with sounds in words. Robot Talk (video) is a phonemic awareness, which involves the ability to segment and blend individual phonemes within words, through various activities, such as, the teacher has a puppet say the sounds “fffff ” “iiiii” “shhhh” and children say fish.
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OBSERVING A LESSON
Why the focus on the Pre-K Essentials?
What is needed?
- Make sure that your classrooms have core curriculum at their fingertips
- Create a space, maybe staff meetings, for teachers to share the Essential practices
- Provide your staff time to complete the Pre-K Essential Modules
- Take the modules yourself beginning with #3 (Interactive Read Aloud)
- Share with families how talking, reading and singing build the foundation for later reading
Birth through age 3 Essentials coming soon
The zero to age three (B-3) Essential Literacy Practice document will be available in the next couple of months. GISD 0-3 programs will focus on three practices to provide professional development on. These three practices have a direct continuance with the focuses that are being supported in the GISD 3-5 programs. They are:
- #2 Bring Attention to Print Concepts in Books and the environment
- #3 Book-sharing: Engaging with Books to Support Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Love of Reading
- #4 Playing with Sounds
Michelle McQueen
Genesee Intermediate School District
Email: mmcqueen@geneseeisd.org
Website: https://www.literacyessentials0-5.org/
Location: Genesee Intermediate School District
Phone: (810) 922-1707