¡Preparémonos para el primer grado! Práctica de lectura

Your child will practice their reading skills in a fun and engaging way. I will first talk with you to see where along the reading process your child is at. This class is for students going into first grade, currently in first grade or second graders who need additional practice and support. Students should be able to already know their letter names and sounds, many high frequency words and possibly even be able to already read a simple sentence. 

Though this is an ongoing class, the lessons will be based more on the needs of the class as a whole, week to week. We will dive more into getting to know each other and what I feel are the needs and next steps of the class/students. This is very much like the in person classroom setting. 

Since this is a small group, your child will benefit from the small group setting. This is ideal for most students. 
Since I am an actual school teacher, I am very experienced with knowing what kids at this age need in order to become readers and become even better, more skilled readers. 

Some lessons/activities will include: the use of Google Slides, sentence building and reading, adding adjectives to sentences to make them better and more creative and the use of hands on items to help it all come more. 

One way that I will help it all come to life for your child and their friends in class will be to use "realia," which is real life items to aid in helping your child be creative with their reading skills. They will help in creation of a simple sentence for the object, then will take part in the reading.

Another ongoing activity will be the use of "voice." We will change up our voices (example: read like a mouse, a giant or a dinosaur) to help make reading more fun. Students will be able to volunteer ideas of "voice" options. 

Later on in the course, I will suggest making or purchasing a simple puppet. This is something that I use in class and I have my students use as well. We use puppets for many activities, but they for sure help reading come to life even more.