Hi! I'm a roaming assistant teacther, in our public school. Last week I was assigned ---one on one--- second grade girl (who can barely read beginning first grade level) I was told to copy the Scott Foresman take home booklets for first grade and have her read each one of them to me twice. She reads them once, second we read in unison, third she reads it again to me. I need ideas to help her. Like a compound word cover half, cover the other half and put the two words together. ing on a word make an ocean wave sign with your hand. Phonics---yes, but how do you help them memorize sight words? Any and all reading ideas will be most appreciated. I am desperate. I was a stay at home mom, until our kidos went to college. I was a room mom many times and taught Sunday School for 25 years. I love working with the students and I have had good luck one on one math, but reading I am lost. She gets no help from home, mom isn't not smart enough to help. Sad deal. I admire all you home schoolers. Petunia in Kansas
Petunia, I think you will find that a lot of homeschoolers don't want to take time to help a ps teacher. I know that sounds bad but...homeschoolers are always getting slammed by teachers and...sometimes a person just gets to a point where you don't want to stick your neck or time out for another *beating*. Anyway...with that said.... sight words ----- you can't just throw a ton of them at her and expect her to know them. Depending on HER you could do anywhere between 5 and 25 a week. Have new words and when she gets them *down* then they get to move to their *permanent home*. Always post them where she can see them. We also use them in a sentence so that we know how to use the word. Can she write? Have her write the word. She might not be a visual learner. Maybe add texture to what she writes with and on. A lot of us use pudding on wax paper (kool aid, sand, whatever) to write the letters for preschoolers. What about fun games to learn compound words? A picture of a cowboy and then two pieces "cow" "boy". I don't get the -ing and the wave thing with your hand. What are you referring to? Good luck and I hope for the sake of the little girl that you are able to help her.
Petunia... Interesting you brought this subject up. I try each year to be involved in the HOSTS program in our public school. You know the program that helps students on a 1:1 basis who are behind a level or two in reading. Today they called me, and I told them I could help on *this day, this time*. However, that time was filled. Since I homeschool my own kids, I could not tutor any of the other available times. But I sure enjoy that 1/2 hr. So I will serve as a *substitute* this year if they need a fill in. :wink: I don't know how much *prep* time you get, so some of these may work or can be adapted. Anyway, I have a few tricks *up my sleeve*. Please feel free to change these around as you need them. Any craft store sells blank puzzles. Have her put the Dolch sight words on the puzzle pieces.Put the puzzle together and use markers to decorate or make her own picture. Cut out square, triangles, circles and rectangles or any shape in construction paper. Write the words on the shapes and make a castle! Be sure and have a pattern of how the pieces go together. Get plastic eggs (that come out at easter time) and write the words inside and *crack* the eggs to guess the word. I make riddles up using the sight words! You don't have to use all of them, but try to use most of them. Make a computer generated cross word puzzle from the Dolch sight words. Checker Board Game. I write the word on tape and put on a checker. If my son can say the word he gets to move the checker. He has to listen to me say the words on my side of the board. If I said the word right, I move. If I say one wrong and he catches me, I can't move! BELIEVE ME, I makes lots of mistakes :lol: I bought a game from Walmart called Spelltime. Its GREAT. It has several lowercase letters in a plastic carrying container. I call out a word, and my son uses the tiled letters to spell the word. On the other side of the case, it has cards that have pictures. Beside the picture are blanks for spelling the word. EXCEPT that on the back of each tiled letter they have different number of pegs.. So only the correct pegged letter will fit in the spot for that letter. So this can be used for more than one thing. Also, I make flap books. If you have a word family, this works well with it. All it takes is blank paper and staples. Make the last page twice as long as the pages in front of it. For example, an easy illustration is the *-at* family. Put *at* on the last page and make it twice as long as the previous pages so that it sticks out. Then write a *c* on the first page *b*, *br*, *spl* , etc. on the rest of the pages for all the words you want to make. So as you flip each page over, they will be in front of the *at* and she can flip it to see how if *you know one word, you know many*. Did I explain that well enough? :wink: She can decorate the front,etc...Put a cover on it and call it my *-AT* family book . Also, clap out each letter, stomp out each letter, snap out letter. I have done all of these things. We have clapped, stomped, snapped, snorted, and jumped out each letter of each word. Bingo works well too. Put the sight words on a bingo card and call them out. See how many she can make...across,up and down,etc.. Be sure and have a *treat* at the end of the game.. Group the sight words by their endings..All *s* *ed* or *ing* words go together. If no endings then they are root or base words. Group all the words that have 1 syllable, 2 syllables together,etc. Take about 3 or 4 sight words at the beginning and have put them in alphabetical order..add a few more as the year goes on, until you add them all. Make a slider...Put the words on a rectangle shaped piece of paper and pull them through a paper (like heavy duty cardstock) that has a *window*. This is the same type of thing where you turn the wheel (made from a circle and brad) to say the word that appears in the *window*. Today, I made a list in one column of the sight words. The second column, for the sight words, I wrote them again, but this time, I had several blanks for the letters. So like the word *said*....Then on the other side, I put * __ ai __* Of course, they are mixed up on the other side. This words good too because it makes them pay attention to EVERY letter to see how every letter is important. Sight words are done best by working on them EACH day for about a week. Let us know how much prep time you have before, I flood you with more ideas Hope you can use some of these! Blessings TinaTx
Reading level 1 First I want to say thanks. I really appreciate all the ideas. I only work with her 30 minutes each day. Petunia in Kansas
My 7-year-old has been a slow reader (has known her phonics forever, just isn't that interested in sitting down herself to read). Now when she is working on her sight words or even just looking at a book and sounding out the words, anything she gets right, I try to be sure and encourage her a lot (i.e. "I knew you could do it - you're doing such a great job with your reading.") I'm not trying to give false praise, just recognize her efforts and let her know that I have confidence in her. I'm sure the little girl you speak of could use confidence, too. Even at a young age kids know when they are considered "behind", and I do feel for them when they are in a public school setting and may be stigmatized the rest of their schools years for just having a slow start. So, my best advice would be to praise her a lot for her effort, which I'm sure you already do.
ing motion Sorry, it took me awhile to get back with the "ing" motion. It comes from the Edmark Reading Program. With the "i" hand facing self (right hand, pinky straight up and other 3 fingers down), twist the hand away from self, slightly downward and to the side. That is the Edmark explanation of my wording --ocean wave lacking for a better description. Petunia in Kansas
