I’m going to give you a little overview of what I do
with my 1st grade group. First, we start
off with a “Question of the Day.” It’s nice to give them each a chance to talk
and share about something important to them in order to keep us focused for the
rest of our lesson. The second thing we
do is some sort of quick phonemic awareness activity. This usually takes about
2-3 minutes and gets them moving. For example, I’ll have them stand up while I
read a list of words. If the word has a short a sound they will hop and if the
word has a short i sound they will squat down. I believe that my early readers need a little phonemic awareness
practice everyday! Next we review our letter/sound cards and sight words. Once a
week we’ll play a game with our sight word cards. My kids current favorite is
“Beat the Teacher.” I show each student a word card. If they say if within 3
seconds they can keep the card. If it takes longer than that I get to keep the
card. After we’ve gone through all of the cards we count to see who has more.
Let’s just say I’ve never won and I’d like to keep it that way! ;)
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| Swat It: We set out sight word cards or phonics skill cards. I say a word and the first one to "swat it" gets to keep it. |
Next, we move into some decoding or fluency work.
This portion of our lesson looks a little different each day and is normally when I introduce our new phonics skill for the week. Some of the activities include orally reading
a passage together, working on phrasing, reading phrase cards, Read Naturally, word sorts, or reading a leveled text together.
After we read together they have about 1-2 minutes of independent
reading. I listen to them read and make some quick anecdotal
records on a different child each day. They LOVE to show off so we always have
a “Star Reader” who gets to read something aloud for the group after their
independent practice! After the Star Reader has read aloud then the kids move on to one of my
favorite things, the LA 5-a-Day. This is a resource that I created to review basic LA skills. The same skills are reviewed in 2-3 week chunks to help
build mastery and independence. We wrap up our RTI lesson with a writing activity either responding to the book or a writing prompt.
If this looks like something you'd like to try, you can grab the first two weeks for FREE in my TPT store. Here's a little break down of what to expect. This is just a sample of week 1 and week 9. The skills spiral and increase in difficulty as the year goes along.
I'd love to know what you do during your reading groups or intervention lessons. Please share in the comments below! Thanks so much for stopping by!
Congratulations! You'll love reading intervention. I do. I'm a K-2 interventionist and it was the best career move I could have made. I look forward to reading more about your teaching.
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