How can teachers help all students learn these skills in a way that will be beneficial to all students?
I have found that some students are able to quickly learn new skills like blending and rhyming while some students have a lot of trouble learning these skills. I know that I need to continue practicing these skills with my students but I want to do it in a way that is fun.
I think that using partners makes it more fun and also allows students to help each other learn.
I also am curious to know if English learners (especially Spanish speakers) progress through the same stages of pre-reading and reading. In my experience my Spanish speakers have a hard time learning how to rhyme. When I asked a coworker who is bilingual she told me that rhyming is less common in Spanish and that there are not many rhyming book like there are in English. I think that English-speaking children grow up listening to rhyming stories and songs and this makes rhyming easier when these students get to school.
This information gives me an excuse to do more read alouds in class. I make sure to choose some rhyming books when I am reading aloud to students.
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How are your students responding to your use of more rhyming read aloud books in class? Do the EL students respond to them in the same way that the other students do?
Have you heard of "Los Dichos?" We have that program going in our school- I'm just trying to think of ways to maybe have a spanish rhyming book introduced to your students so that they can become familiar with rhyming in spanish. The only other thing I can think of off the top of my head is SkippyJon Jones- there's a part where it says "First they had a fiesta, then they had a siesta." Fiesta and siesta rhyme, right? I love hearing about your class. =)
I think the introduction of rhyming stories is fun for all of my students but the students who have heard these stories since they were babies have a big head start. But, these are the same children who have parents who read and talk to their children everyday so these are the kids with a much larger vocabulary. This goes back to the language gap.
It seems that some of these students will never get ahead when they are already so far behind their peers as 5-year-olds.
One positive thing that happened last year in Salinas is that all public school children received library cards. I think that this small step helped because I had two students who told me the other day that they had seen each other at the library.
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