Library Reading Groups

Good afternoon, Oak Room Family!  After starting to build the Oak Room Library we started having small group reading time with our library books.  After we started reading groups the children asked to do it every week because it was fun.  Our small group work allows for focusing on a wide variety of literacy skills with differentiation appropriate for each individual child.  It gives us opportunity to have conversations with each other building vocabulary, language and social skills.  It provides opportunity for children to work together cooperatively to figure out what letters are, discuss their sounds, put them together to make words, use pictures for clues, and together succeed together as a group at decoding words with appropriate levels of scaffolding from teachers.  At school we regularly discuss that all letters are made of lines, curves and dots.  We use our line, curve and dot magnets to practice making letters and interacting with them and comparing the different parts.  Learning is strongest with play and interaction and the children enjoy turning their letters into pictures and other designs and sharing their designs with each other.  They sometimes see how many letters they can use to create a picture.  The Oak Room has so much fun with books!

Have a wonderful long weekend!  We enjoyed speaking with many of you at conferences yesterday and look forward to speaking with the rest of you tonight!