Literacy Learning in
Melanie Clark's First Grade Classroom
Buffalo Elementary, Union, SC
My first grade students are reading and writing from the moment they walk in the classroom. Here they are signing in, reading the morning messages, and listening to a favorite book on tape.
Every day there are opportunities to listen and respond to multiple readalouds, to read along with the me and others during shared reading and to read independently.
After independent reading, the students are asked to respond in their reading logs. Each student has a personalized bookshelf that includes books on their appropriate level, their reading log and a poetry notebook.
We keep ongoing lists of the books that we've read (November books are listed on the bottom chart) and develop criteria together to help us decide what category or genre each book would fall under (shown in the top chart).
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