sight word benchmarks 1st grade by trimester

#Sight word benchmarks 1st grade by trimester update

I created my own fluency stories and questions, and fluency charts to better fit my needs, along with a blog post about fluency stories and charts. This is because I think it is a good review for the second graders, and also challenges the first graders! I do put up a separate word family for both first grade and second grade, but ask all of the children to read both lists with me.

#Sight word benchmarks 1st grade by trimester update

I quickly update the calendar, and then we read our phonics word family words of the day together. The kids enter and sort their names for bringing or buying their lunches. School begins at 8:00, but the bell to go to class rings at 7:55. Attendance, Calendar, Phonics Word Family Practice, and Reading Fluency Practice

Later, when my second graders go to reading, I do math and phonics with my first graders alone in my room! It works great!ħ:55 - 8:10 School Begins. Therefore, when my first graders are at reading, I do math with my second graders alone in my room. The end result is that the kids in the combination class are absorbed into the other classes' reading groups so that the kids in the combo class can get some time alone with the teacher, one grade level at a time. There is also an intervention teacher with a couple of instructional aides that take the neediest children in very small groups for direct instruction.

The children are grouped by achievement and then sent to specific teachers within their grade level for reading instruction that is right at their reading level. Here's a little background information first on how my school does reading rotations: the school I am at this year has all teachers at each grade level trading children for reading groups. My firsties are a very active, boy-heavy group, and smart as whips!įirst/Second Grade Combination Class Schedule They need to be encouraged, motivated, and sometimes pushed a bit to make sure they complete their work. But if not, here it is! The class I got was hand picked to include high first graders and above-average second graders who were independent workers, (although I wound up with two lower first graders that do need help completing their work.) Looking back, I think I might have preferred to have all above-average first graders who were independent workers, just like my second graders! A few of my first graders are independent workers, but simply do not enjoy written work (even though they totally have the ability to do it alone,) and that can be a problem. If you have been following my blog for a while, then you've probably already read about my class this year. I believe that the key to teaching any class well is flexibility, plus the ability (and willingness!) to change what you are doing if it is clearly not working well. It's possible that a different group of children might respond differently to this schedule, and I would need to change things around. The schedule below is the one that I am currently using because it works well with this particular group of children. After that, I had to experiment with several different schedules and models of delivering instruction before I found one that I was the most comfortable with. At the beginning of the year, I had the very same questions myself! So I sat down with the teacher who taught this combo class the previous year to discuss them.