{"id":881,"date":"2013-12-05T02:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T08:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/funwithfirsties.com\/2013\/12\/hello-im-still-here\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T02:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T08:29:00","slug":"hello-im-still-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/2013\/12\/05\/hello-im-still-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading Incentive Necklace & Comprehension"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nHey’all! I’m back after a little blogging vacation!! (yes, that is what I’m going to refer to as my temporary “life-is-crazy-and-it’s-kicking-my-butt” leave!).<\/i>\u00a0So without further adieu, let’s jump right in to some fun!<\/div>\n
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\nI’ll start off with a quick little reading comprehension FREEBIE!<\/div>\n
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\nI use these cubes often during whole group after reading any story (the actual cubes are from a teacher supply store…maybe Lakeshore Learning?? I can’t remember)<\/i>. I also use them in small group\/guided reading, and am now planning a centre activity for next week where the kiddies can use the cubes on their own:<\/div>\n
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\nHere is a screenshot of one of the worksheets for our centre activity (I have included 3 different versions: one for just writing, one for writing and a picture, and one for just a picture)<\/i>.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nClick HERE<\/a> (or the pic above)<\/i> to download the FREE cube inserts & extension worksheet!<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nNext I thought I’d share the reading program I run in my classroom. Our school has a school-wide reading program called “Reading Rocks.” Each student gets one of these bags to take home for a week and bring back to school each Monday. At the beginning of the week, the kids choose 3 new books to take home (one levelled reader, one guided reading book, and one general book from our classroom library–does not have to be a book they can read. I also send their sight word rings<\/a> home every once in a while)<\/i><\/div>\n
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\nIn my classroom, I have an added reading incentive to get them reading, reading, reading; Also in their Reading Rocks bags are their reading log duotangs, where parents record any books read with their child:<\/div>\n
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\nClick HERE<\/a> to download my FREE reading log!<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nFor every 10 books read at home, the student gets to choose one bead to add to their necklace:<\/div>\n
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\nThis is the reading bulletin board, displaying our necklaces.<\/div>\n
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\nLike I said, for every 10 books read a student gets 1 “regular” bead (seed beads)<\/i>. AND for every 50 books read, the student gets to pick out a “special” bead. I have a massive collection of beads from my childhood and a “special bead” is one from my collection:<\/div>\n
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\nThe beads on the left are regular beads and on the right are the special beads:<\/div>\n
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\nThe kids are SO excited when they have read 10 books and I usually hear about it first thing in the morning and throughout the day…they are *obsessed* with putting beads on their necklaces! Love it. At the end of the year, the kiddies get to keep their reading necklaces as a token of how much progress they made in first grade!<\/div>\n
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\nAnd, since I haven’t blogged since LAST MONTH!!! I figured I should throw in a festive activity to welcome December:<\/div>\n
\nThis little writing craftivity was inspired by one that we did last year<\/a>. Rather than just using red and green, I had my kiddies choose from brightly coloured paper…I love the final product so much more!!<\/div>\n
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\nFirst we read this book:<\/div>\n
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\nand discussed how getting toys and lots of other presents is not at all the true meaning of Christmas.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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\nTheir answers were so sweet!<\/div>\n
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\nThat’s all for now. I will hopefully be back at the end of this week for another update. Have a great week, everyone!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hey’all! I’m back after a little blogging vacation!! (yes, that is what I’m going to refer to as my temporary “life-is-crazy-and-it’s-kicking-my-butt” leave!).\u00a0So without further adieu, let’s jump right in to some fun! I’ll start off with a quick little reading comprehension FREEBIE! I use these cubes often during whole group after reading any story (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,24],"tags":[53,21,26,116,117,118,76],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-holidays-seasonal","category-literacy","tag-christmas","tag-craftivity","tag-literacy-centres","tag-reading","tag-reading-comprehension","tag-reading-rocks","tag-writing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lsdesignssites5.techsurgeons.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}