Textbook: Trophies -- Harcourt
Reading aloud to students contributes to their motivation, comprehension, vocabulary, fluency, knowledge base, literary understanding, familiarity with academic and literary terms, sense of community, enjoyment, and perhaps to a lifetime love of literature.
Reading aloud exposes students to more challenging texts than may be able to read independently.
Listening skills and strategies are greatly improved during read-aloud activities.
Reading Aloud:Comprehension strategies are interactive processes that allow readers to monitor and self-assess how well they are understanding that they are reading.
In Kindergarten students begin to write sentences and brief narrative about familiar experiences.
Writing JournalsTextbook: D'Nealian Handwriting -- Scott Foresman / Addison Wesley
D’Nealian handwriting, is the innovative, continuous-stroke method of teaching students to write.
Continuous Stroke means fewer pencil lifts that ball and stick so there are fewer chances for mistakes
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