Sam started class reading through the first page of Geronimo Stilton's Reading and Writing Guide. She agrees that using dialogue, incorporating pictures, using descriptive words, and strong vocabulary are all necessary. She's been completing a very short writing assignment about her family. From this lesson Sam chose to create a baking blog to use as a regular outlet for writing. We set up the blog at the end of class: samssweetspot.wordpress.com. We also set up her Thea Stilton notebook and included an Active Comprehension Strategies (reciprocal teaching) chart for her to use to spark daily writing assignments. l
We had a brief lesson on root words, prefixes, and suffixes, and Sam took home a worksheet for homework , pulled from the Word Roots Beginning book she brought with her.