Literacy

Reading and Writing Workshop

My favourite books We encourage growing our reading lives by sharing our favourite books and reflecting how our reading has changed in Grade 2.	Reading Partners Using accountable talk, reading partners grow their comprehension.	Reading Celebration We celebrate the end our unit with a celebration and sharing out with Grade One partners.

Reading Response:

little blue and little yellow

The children worked with paint to explore how colours change after listening to “Little Blue and Little Yellow” by Leo Lionni.

They are practicing reading comprehension strategies by exploring new information.

Hey, Little Ant

The children were tasked to pick a side based on this story and persuasively argue why or why not the boy should step on the little ant.

This is based on the Reader's Workshop unit: Writing About Reading.

hey Ant!.pdf

Brown Bear, Brown Bear,

What Do You See?

Our class presentation for Reading Week. Two of these children had never spoken in English before we began this book. They continued to read it for the rest of the year to their classmates.

Balanced Literacy -- Kindergarten

Playdoh Words Writing with different mediums is important in the beginning of the year. We practice letter formation and sight words before we begin to build sentences.	Picture Walks Reading is not only about decoding and sounds, but also comprehension. The children examine books to understand the content and messages.	Independent Reading The children choose their own books and learn to read for pleasure.
Writing Children enter our class with various backgrounds. So we start our writing program with drawing/free writing, then begin to use sentence frames and sight words, and finish with longer paragraphs.	Writing Over the course of the year, words become sentences, sentences become longer and longer. Soon, there might even be a little story or sustained text form.	English Language Learners We encourage children to speak by giving think time, listening and creating opportunities to gain confidence.
Brown Bear, Brown Bear A performance during Reading Week becomes a class favourite. We work with many children who are ELL and they loved this book.	The Three Little Pigs Using known stories allows children to explore text forms and expression since they already understand the main idea.

Reading and Writing Workshop

My favourite books

We encourage growing our reading lives by sharing our favourite books and reflecting how our reading has changed in Grade 2.

Reading Partners

Using accountable talk, reading partners grow their comprehension.

Reading Celebration

We celebrate the end our unit with a celebration and sharing out with Grade One partners.

Reading Response:

Balanced Literacy -- Kindergarten

Playdoh Words

Writing with different mediums is important in the beginning of the year. We practice letter formation and sight words before we begin to build sentences.

Picture Walks

Reading is not only about decoding and sounds, but also comprehension. The children examine books to understand the content and messages.

Independent Reading

The children choose their own books and learn to read for pleasure.

Writing

Children enter our class with various backgrounds. So we start our writing program with drawing/free writing, then begin to use sentence frames and sight words, and finish with longer paragraphs.

Writing

Over the course of the year, words become sentences, sentences become longer and longer. Soon, there might even be a little story or sustained text form.

English Language Learners

We encourage children to speak by giving think time, listening and creating opportunities to gain confidence.

Brown Bear, Brown Bear

A performance during Reading Week becomes a class favourite. We work with many children who are ELL and they loved this book.

The Three Little Pigs

Using known stories allows children to explore text forms and expression since they already understand the main idea.