Literacy Update

In literacy, we have been focusing on recognizing and producing rhymes.  Being able to notice and work with the sounds of our language is an important early literacy skill.  We have been reading poems, books, and singing songs with rhymes. We have also played fun, engaging oral language games, sorted picture cards, made puzzles, built snake chains, and created a book based on Oh, A Hunting we will Go.    A favorite of the students was using "magic" tape after listening for rhymes in interactive texts and color coding these words.  While using interactive reading charts, the students are learning where to start when they read, what a period means, the difference between a letter and a word.  Some students are even learning how to get their mouth ready to read a word that is unfamiliar to them.  We have started to integrate a new high frequency word every week into our learning.  The students practice rainbow writing these words, finding them in messages, using stamps and tiles to make the words, and playing interactive games such as, "Oh No!"  So far, your child should know how to read and write the following words: I, me, see, like, the, and is.  The children are also continuing to review letters, sounds, and letter formations.  Ask your child about the sky line, plane line, grass line, and worm line!