Lesson Components

• Read several familiar books
  • Helps the child to understand stories and encouraged fluent, effortless reading
  • In every lesson students get to read a lot of books that are on their level to help increase their fluency when reading.

• Reading a story that was read once the day before
  • Teacher will take a running record to check the child's reading level. 
  • Allows the teacher to observe the child's strengths as well as confusions in reading.
  • Helps the teacher check on a child's progress and plan instruction.

• Letter Identification and Word Work
  • Colorful Magnetic letters are used to help build an understanding of how letters and words work. 
  • Helps the child learn fast recognition of letters.
  • Helps the child learn how to get to new words to known words.
  • Helps the child build an understanding of the process of word construction that they can use while reading and writing.

• Writing a Sentence or Short Story
  • After the sentence is completed, it is written on a sentence strip, cut-up, and sent home to be reassembled for homework.
  • Students create and write their own story everyday in their own journal. 
  • Encourages the child to use sound and letter relationships to write words and to write known words quickly.
  • Helps the child learn to read and write using his/her own natural language patterns.
  • Helps the child learn capitalization, punctuation, and sequencing.

• Reading a New book that is read independently the next day
  • At the end of every lesson a new book is introduced.  The book is chosen especially for a child based on his/her interests, vocabulary, and content. 
  • Teacher Encourages the child to use previously learned strategies while reading.
  • Promotes independent problem solving.