This week we have been reviewing that as we read harder books, and when we come across harder words, we need to slow down and look at all the parts of a word and read it part by part. One of our class mini-lessons started off with a story about building with legos. I illustrated the idea of how it can be difficult to build a little house, or even a big castle! It can be too hard! But then we discussed the importance of how we build pieces of a castle or house, part by part!
The class was able to see that at times we can be so busy looking at the whole castle, and look over the smaller parts. We broke it down. We may build the walls, and then add the towers, and then the bridge. Perhaps, at the end even taking a step back and look at it altogether! We then made a connection to building a lego castle to reading tricky words in our books. We may at times feel like this is "too hard" and we just can't read these words! We made a connection to just reading the words part by part using our open and closed syllable strategies! We chose some words out of our Zelda and Ivy text and worked on breaking them up part by part!
What we're learning in first grade. Students are also making comments in class! At home add to the posts, too.