Reading
Fostering a love of reading through good books and quality literature is one of my main goals for your child. When children are excited about reading, their reading and comprehension skills can rapidly improve.
Reading Street is a research based reading program utilized for students in Kindergarten through 6th grade. Sunset Ridge implemented this reading program this year. The program provides explicit, systematic, high-quality instruction focusing on the five critical elements that have been identified by research: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. DVUSD has adopted Reading Street as our reading curriculum, as it aligns with the Common Core State Standards and the instructional design includes a tiered approach that will encourage achievement for all students. The instructional design emphasizes priority skills and success predictors, progress monitoring, differentiated design, literature for learning and thinking, and writing instruction.
Additionally, students will engage in The Daily 5 activities each day in the classroom. The Daily 5 is a literacy structure that teaches independence and gives children the skills necessary to instill a lifetime love of reading and writing. There are five tasks that will be introduced individually. After I introduce each task, the children will have the opportunity to engage in the task independently. Children work on building their stamina until they are successful at being independent when doing the specific task. The five tasks are: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, and Word Work. Once the students are engaged in the reading and writing activities, I am able to work with small groups and meet with students one-on-one to conference about their progress.
Students will have additional sustained silent reading time daily during snack time. I encourage the children to find a comfortable spot in the classroom to read in, whether it is at seated at their desk, on the floor, or under the desk.
Reading Street is a research based reading program utilized for students in Kindergarten through 6th grade. Sunset Ridge implemented this reading program this year. The program provides explicit, systematic, high-quality instruction focusing on the five critical elements that have been identified by research: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. DVUSD has adopted Reading Street as our reading curriculum, as it aligns with the Common Core State Standards and the instructional design includes a tiered approach that will encourage achievement for all students. The instructional design emphasizes priority skills and success predictors, progress monitoring, differentiated design, literature for learning and thinking, and writing instruction.
Additionally, students will engage in The Daily 5 activities each day in the classroom. The Daily 5 is a literacy structure that teaches independence and gives children the skills necessary to instill a lifetime love of reading and writing. There are five tasks that will be introduced individually. After I introduce each task, the children will have the opportunity to engage in the task independently. Children work on building their stamina until they are successful at being independent when doing the specific task. The five tasks are: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Work on Writing, and Word Work. Once the students are engaged in the reading and writing activities, I am able to work with small groups and meet with students one-on-one to conference about their progress.
Students will have additional sustained silent reading time daily during snack time. I encourage the children to find a comfortable spot in the classroom to read in, whether it is at seated at their desk, on the floor, or under the desk.