The Morning Message

I was so pleased to notice how well the children did on the first spelling test last Friday. Research indicates that the best indicator of a child's ability to spell is their reading and writing abilities. One of the ways we facilitate reading and writing is incorporated into our morning message. I use this message to teach reading strategies, spelling, grammar, and punctuation.  For example, today's message was:

Dear class,

Today we are going to learn how to read for information.

Mrs. Bailie

First, the whole class read the message aloud with me. I asked if anyone could find a "short i" word. One volunteer said, "Information." "What other phonogram do you notice in the word information?" Someone else answered, "tion". "Information is a long word. When we come across long words in our reading, sometimes it helps to break the word up into sound parts, or 'chunks.' Let's clap as we say information and listen to how many sound parts there are. That's right! We heard four sound parts, which we can also call syllables."

Posted on September 6, 2007 1:10 PM | Permalink