Are you noticing that boosting confidence is just as important as building strategies for reading and writing? Yes, they definitely go together! As you make new discoveries, it is important for your reader to have a place to hold them. Here are a few tips!
1. Poster Boards! A simple poster board can be made into a display of the discoveries your reader has made. Use some colored construction paper to categorize the discoveries and you have just created a path to retrieve the concepts learned. I like to use Green paper to hold all of the Prefixes, White paper for the Base Words, and Red paper for the Suffixe s. Phonemes can be displayed on colored paper as well. Vowel Teams, Consonant Digraphs, Diphthongs, and Blends can all have a place on the poster board! 2. Journals! Journals are handy and can go with you in the car! I like to make tabs to allow for sections of the journal for recording. On the first few pages, I like to allow space for Words I Am Curious About. This gives a place to jot down an interesting word found in text, on a road sign or bill board, or menu. On a tab, a section of the journal I like to designate for Base Word discovery. Having a place to keep the base words gives your reader a way to retrieve previous learning and proof of known bases. Other sections, we label, Prefixes, and Suffixes. Finally, I like to have a tab for Phonemes or the Letters and Sounds Connections. Encourage a writing notebook or journal as well to pour story ideas, thoughts, and picture sketches. Capture the imagination! 3. Slide Shows! Maybe your reader is tech savvy and enjoys creating using technology. Use a slide show to capture and hold the learning. Designate a slide for each category, hold a picture cue, and capture the learning. How does this connect to confidence building? As the learning is captured, the Poster Board, Journal pages, and Slide Show grows...and your reader sees that! Look at how much you have discovered and you know! There is no stopping the curiosity to discover more! Your reader begins to notice patterns in the way words work and how meaningful word parts, or Morphemes, are evidenced in many, many words! So are the letters and sound connections! As confidence blooms, so does your reader!
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AuthorI am loving learning! I've been an educator for over 30 years and a tutor for ten...and I'm constantly amazed at new discoveries about the brain, how we learn, and how new instructional strategies like Structured Word Inquiry, unlock readers who are stuck. New discoveries about our English language and the structure of words are absolutely the biggest "Ah-Ha" moments with students that I've ever encountered! Archives
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