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Listen to Reading
Yesterday was our first session of Listen to Reading for the year. We wrote our anchor chart that keeps us on track for our reading behaviours. We LOVED our session and we were all very happy reading for just over 30 minutes – we would’ve read for longer but needed to do some other activities.
We used the class sites and apps mentioned on our blog to help our reading. We used laptops, desktop computers, iPods and iPads. After our session we shared some of the stories we’d heard and recommended them to our classmates.
Here’s some photos from our session.
Daily 5 Reading
During the first two weeks of school we’ve started to use the Daily 5 Reading Cafe for our reading programme.
We LOVE it!
We’ve all been using the Daily 5 for our Reading and Word Work over the last few years, so it’s great to continue our learning journey.
We’ve been working on building our stamina during Read to Self and we’ve had lots of fun using EEKK (elbow to elbow, knee to knee) during Read with Someone. We’ve got our anchor charts to make sure we all stay on task and keep focussed on developing our reading skills.
Here’s some photos from this weeks sessions.
National Simultaneous Storytime
Tomorrow is National Simultaneous Storytime day. This is one way to celebrate reading and show just how much we love reading books. This will be the 13th year of the National Simultaneous Storytime and we are celebrating by reading the book by Nick Bland called The Wrong Book. We might also use this book as an inspiration to try to create our own books.
Our class will be using the app to read the book – it’s an interesting app because we can listen to the book and also record our voices reading the book.
We’ll post some photos of our activities tomorrow.
Here’s today’s photos. We invited Mrs Chick’s Year 2 students in to read with us and loved it so much we read it twice. We used Airserver to show the book on our Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) wirelessly. We chose different students to turn the pages on the iPhone while we read along and listened to the book on the IWB.
Musical Chairs Reading
Last Friday we finished our wonderful week at school with a game of Reading Musical chairs. We made a circle with our classroom chairs and a mixture of books were placed on them. When the music started we needed to walk around the circle of chairs, when the music stopped we sat on the nearest chair and started reading the books on it.
This is a wonderful chance to read different types of books that we may not usually choose. The books on the chairs were:
- picture fiction
- non fiction (facts & information)
- novels
- books without words – you have to create your own story in your mind
At the end of our session we reflected upon it. We all agreed that it was a fun way to read books that we wouldn’t usually choose and when we went to the Resource Centre to borrow our Library books for the week many children chose some new types of books.
Here’s some photos of our reading session.
Daily 5 – Read with Someone
Here’s a great little video of Jackson and Liam reading with each other. They both had the same Zac Powers book and took turns reading it. They showed how to share the reading, how to sound out words, tried to use expression when they read and read at a steady pace.
They were also very brave to do Read to Someone in front of the whole class! Congratulations Jackson and Liam!
The Reading Goes On!!
Every morning we read!!!
We LOVE to read. Here’s some photos of us working on developing our reading skills. We’re using the Daily 5 Reading Cafe and have started to make our own daily reading choices and setting our own reading goals on what we’d like to improve! Some of the areas we have chosen to develop are:
- increasing fluency
- checking for understanding
- improving our decoding skills
- back up and re-read
- flip the sound
- use the pictures/ diagrams as clues and see if they match the pictures
- read with expression
- read at a steady pace
- predict what will happen next
We’re using lots of technology to develop our reading skills, like iPads, iPhones, computers and the Interactive Whiteboard.
Some of our students have really found series of books they love. From our book sales we’ve spread the word about different books that others may like but have never heard of. Lucy, Maisie and Emma are loving the Bindi and animal novels, Will and Oscar are enjoying the Dirty Bertie novels, Rory and Nathan are enjoying Dairy of a Wimpy Kid and Ned has just discovered the Famous Five books after reading some Roald Dahl novels. Lots of our students are discovering “good fit books” everyday. Mrs Langham and Amelia, in the Library, have been really supportive and helpful to find new books and reserve books we are interested in- we’re lucky to have their support!
Here’s one of this week’s reading sessions.
Daily 5 Reading Cafe on PhotoPeach
Daily 5 Reading Cafe on PhotoPeach
We also have a “new read to self” record – we can read for 36min & 17seconds without anyone moving or being distracted – hoooooorrrrayyyyyy!!!! We had to stop at 36minutes because we needed to move onto a different activity.
What are some books that you think we might enjoy? We’d love to hear your ideas and suggestions.
Book Sale!
Today we held our very first book sale!
The students were asked to bring along a book that they would like to “sell” to the class. Obviously we didn’t actually sell our books for money BUT this book sale was about advertising and promoting books you’ve liked to others in the class.
The children had a week to decided which books they would like to “sell” to their classmates and had to decide what would make others interested in reading a new book. We’ve noticed that we all like to read but sometimes we get stuck reading the same series of books or the same type of stories.
A book sale is a great way to introduce readers to different kinds of books – maybe some that they wouldn’t have thought to read before.
We had 6 very brave people who joined our very first book sale. They were Emma, Lucy, Sarah, Oscar, Nathan and Maisie. Each of these student talked about a different book or in some cases they couldn’t pick just one book and brought a few along. Thanks to the 6 fantastic students who had a go at our very first book sale – we were impressed with your talks. Emma had even written notes to help her speak in a clear way to us.
These students talked about:
- what the story was about
- who it would be a “good fit book” for
- what made it an interesting story
- who might like it
- the pictures matching the words
- if it was part of a series of books
- who the author was
- where the book came from – the school library or our community library
- and lots of other information.
Here are some photos of the presenters – congratulations guys on a wonderful booksale.
Our audience loved hearing about these books and are going to find them in the Library at school or our Community Library.
Book Sale on PhotoPeach
What books can you recommend for our class to try reading? We’d love to hear about some new titles.
Musical Chairs Reading
Today we tried an activity we’ve never tried before.
For something new in reading we played “Musical Chairs Reading”.
We took all of our chairs outside and Ms Sporn placed books onto the seat of each chair. She played music and when the music stopped we needed to stop, sit down and start reading! Then when the music started again we walked around the circle until it stopped again – then we sat down and started reading again. We had a great time!! It was lots of fun and something different to develop our reading interests.
It was a chance for us to read books we may not normally choose. Some of us discovered some new authors or series of books we’d like to add to our book boxes.
Here are some photos of today’s session. Check out our video too.
Have you ever tried Musical Chairs Reading? Do you think you’d like to?