Change for Kids

My students and I started off session 5 as we normally would by going over the ‘site’ words and doing some worksheets to practice using some of the troublesome words. I definitely see improvement in that they can recognize the words faster, but I would still really like to work with them on writing sentences. To help improve their writing skills, we all took turns reading “There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell,” which they really enjoyed. Taking turns to read also forced all of us to listen to one another, which is exactly what they need to do for their standardized test coming up. When we were done, we all chose our favorite parts of the book and wrote a few sentences on why we liked it so much. Both of my students had really great ideas, but had some trouble putting it on paper. I helped them with some spelling, but other than that they did great. When we were done, we all drew pictures of our favorite parts.