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Word Study Embedded in Reading and Writing

(Framework outlined as provided in [|Dr. McGill-Franzen's //Kindergarten Literacy// textbook, p.29] plus additional resources for sharing)

__Classroom routines__ * Name work   ** Interactive Wall(s) Ideas **  - Have a reminder for students to always place their name on their work

 

 - Students' Names Listed in Alphabetical Order

  - Students' names matched up with their pictures 

 - Wall sign up for tasks  <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> ** Center Ideas ** <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">- Making Names With Cut-up Letters <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Copy and Reconstruct Names Into a Friend's File <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> * []

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Group Names That Start With Same Letter <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * Letter links activity idea: []

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Group Names That Have The Same Beginning Sounds <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * Words in my pocket activity idea: []

<span style="color: #008080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">**Guided Practice: (**Activity/Game Ideas) p.172

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Play Name Lotto <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * []

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Play a Memory Game <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * Make your own personalized classroom memory game with pictures of your students (click on picture above to access information on how to make these yourself)

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Name Hunts <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for words/labels that start with like names

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for names with particular numbers of letters

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for names with particular letter clusters

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">> Hunt for names according to particular clues ("I Spy") <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * I Spy Printables: [] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> * I Spy Activity Ideas: []

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Name Graphs <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Make a name graph according to number of letters <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Make a name graph according to number of syllables <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">- Name Sorts <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Sort names that start the same way <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> *[] <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Sort names that end the same way <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * []

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">* Wall words work <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Visual supports <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Alphabet Chart (And they don't always have to be just on the wall) <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > High Frequency Words List <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Names and words from books read <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * This site lists strategies and even suggests some children's literature for its use > []

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Environmental Print (e.g., McDonalds, Wal-Mart, etc.) <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * This can be fun and you can be as creative as you want. Here is just one example: <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">* Sorting <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">- Name Sorts <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Sort names that start the same way <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * []

<span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Sort names that end the same way <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * []

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">* Hunting <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">- Name Hunts <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for words/labels that start with like names <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for names with particular numbers of letters <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for names with particular letter clusters <span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Hunt for names according to particular clues ("I Spy")

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * I Spy Printables: []

<span style="color: #000080; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> * I Spy Activity Ideas: []

<span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 32px;">__Teaching strategies__ <span style="color: #339966; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">* Sound stretching <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Elkonin Boxes (Also known as sound boxes).. work great. Click on picture below for free templates or make your own.)

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">* Thinking aloud <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> - Think Aloud Strategy Article : []

<span style="color: #339966; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">* Prompting <span style="color: #1f497d; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">- Chants,Rhymes, & Songs found in books [p. 175] (read-alouds or group readings): <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> * Shared Reading Texts Suggested by Dr. McGill-Franzen (p. 233) <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Big books or poems <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Weather charts <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Calendar charts <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Predictable charts <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Drawings with captions <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Diagrams with labels <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Maps <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Songs <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Rhymes <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Chants and other enlarged or copied texts on chart paper <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Dictated, interactive, and shared writing <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">> Individual or class books <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;"> > Children's murals or collaboratively made murals <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">*** Top 100 books for children <span style="color: #003366; font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif; font-size: 18px;">>>NEA's list from teachers: [] <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">>> Scholastic's list for Parents & Child: []

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> - Patterned charts (structured responses to read-alouds or shared readings) <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> * Making the most of read-alouds article: [] <span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;"> * Interactive read-alouds lesson ideas: []
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