1. Presented by: Lisa McNulty, Kindergarten Teacher, Northside Elementary
For Kindergarten
Presented by: Lisa McNulty, Kindergarten Teacher, Northside Elementary

2. Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Do you know where your children are on this pyramid?

3. 5:1 What can we do to raise our children up the pyramid?
Why is it important that we know this information?
Do you do everything within your power to help your children get their deficiency needs met?
Share Time

4. Definition of Phonics A method of teaching beginners to
read and pronounce words by learning the
phonetic value of letters, letter groups, and
especially syllables

5. How do people learn?
Seeing
Hearing
Touching
Tasting
Smelling

6. How does the process work?
Letter recognition
Letter’s have sounds.
Letters and sounds go together to make words.
Words carry a message.
Which one of the above items is the
motivational factor that makes
children want to learn to
read?
5:1

7. Letter ID and Phonological Awareness
Where & When
All day, everyday!!!
Whole group
Small group
Literacy work stations
Homework
How
Print rich environment
ABC charts
Morning Messages
Name word wall
HF word wall
Poetry folders
Waterford computer program & books
Music
5:1

8. Rhyme Nursery Rhymes (repeat, repeat, repeat)
Let them act them out too!
Silly words that rhyme with names
Lisa>Bisa>Fisa>Misa
Cat>Hat…..they both say “at”
Say the word bed, now touch your head.
alarm swing arm
dinger wiggle finger
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9. (high frequency words)
Types of Words
Book words
(high frequency words)
Post them after introducing them.
Review them at least twice daily .
Before morning message
During writing time
Reward the children for finding HF
words in text.

10. Words that you stretch out and stick back together.
Bubble gum words
Words that you stretch out and stick back together.

11. Picture & WOW Words Picture Words WOW Words
Words that do not follow the rules.
Impressive describing words.
5:1

12. Literacy Work Stations
Differences between Literacy Work Stations and Traditional Learning Centers
Traditional Learning Centers
Literacy Work Stations
Materials are taught and used for instruction first. Then they are placed in the work station for independent use.
Materials are differentiated for students with different needs and reading levels.
Materials are changed to reflect children’s reading levels, strategies being taught, and topics being studied.
New materials were often placed in the center without first being used in teaching.
All students did the same activities at center. Thee was not usually much differentiation.
Centers were often changed weekly with units of study.
Debbie Diller- Literacy Work Stations Making Centers Work

13. All Literacy Work Stations should contain a chance to read and write!
Example: Two children stand beside the overhead, which is projecting a poem, which had been introduced to the class during shared reading. Then the pair take a dry-erase marker and circle the rhyming words. They read the rhyming works together and use magnetic letters to make other words that rhyme with those from the poem. They copy their rhyming words onto strips of paper.
5:1
Debbie Diller- Literacy Work Stations Making Centers Work

14. Writing Instruction
Give the lesson a name.
Keep it brief.
Focus on only one key learning objective per lesson.
Let the students know up front what you want them to learn from the lesson.
Start by connecting the lesson to what the student already knows or are already doing.
Be explicit and direct.
Expect students to be accountable for their learning.
Plan minilessons based on what your students need to know.
Once is never enough.
Marvelous Minilessons for Teaching Beginning Writing, K-3, Lori Jamison Rog

15. Bubble Gum Writing
Activity

16. If I can leave you with a few thoughts
Get to know your children! Expecting them to learn if they are scared, hungry, or sleepy is not practical or easy. Do not be afraid to let them know you care!!
Make your classroom fun and print rich! Engage all their senses. That’s how they learn.
Keep yourself, as an educator,
up on current information and
do not be afraid of change.