Last week I began Reader's Workshop by telling the class how genuinely proud I am at how hard they've been working on applying strategies to figure out new words. As a class we invoke "Eagle Eyes", "Lips the Fish", "Stretchy the Snake" and "Tryin' Lion" all the time. These are all important strategies that readers can do on their own BUT... when you team up (like a super reading duo) you can be even more powerful. And that's where using Pointer Power with a partner comes in because two heads are often better than one! One partner point and the other reads. The pointer can't move on until their partner reads the word but they can help! Check it out:
Remembering back to Old Favorites, Frog and Toad now live among them as many children have heard them several times, are now reading them and have even seen the stories dramatized on stage at the Flynn. Logically then, the next step was to retell the stories ourselves with the help of some puppets. Have a look:
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