Sunday, January 4, 2015

Beginning of the Year Reading


I always start the year off with the book "Yo! Yes?" By Chris Raschka.  
It is a great way to teach voice and expression while reading.


We make an anchor chart to remind the kids of each voice symbols.

I then give the kids sentence strip papers to make their own voice strips.  They write the alphabet as follows:

ab!  cd?   ef.  gh,  ij?  kl.  mn?    Well, you get the idea.   They can make it anyway they want.

The next day we use the book " If I had a Dragon..."   It is a great voice book as well.  I read it without any expression first and we discuss how boring the book was.   We try again with more expression.  This leads the way to a good discussion of why we need to read with expression.

I then have the kids write their own version of the book.  They can use any ending expression they want.

I love hearing them stand in the hallway using the correct voices.




















No comments:

Post a Comment

Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.