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Author's Chair will be a place where one students gets to sit and share out either something they have wrote or a book they want to share with the class. All student's will have the opportunity to be seated in the Author's Chair and share with their classmates.

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A great way to get students actively engaged in diverse reading of their choice. Students will have a choice of books to read, then form homogeneous groups of those reading the same book. Worksheets/activities will be administered during Lit Circle time to further unpack the text.

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Working and Learning Together Is The Key To Success. 

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Working and Learning Together Is The Key To Success. 

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In our classroom, working in groups with our peers will be essential to our everyday learning. Will will have plenty of opportunities to collaborate with our peers whether it be about a book we just read or a new writing strategy. Gaining different ideas and perspectives from our classmates will help us grow as leaners. Incorporating diversity and each of our students backgrounds, will be evident in both our readings and writing. Your child will be an active role in our classroom. They will be reading and they will be writing, both which will help them make a positive social change in our classroom and the world around them!

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In our classroom, we have a wide variety of learners, with many different strengths and goals. My goal as your son/daughter's teacher is to build on their strengths and make them the best readers and writers that they can possibly be! In our classroom, we are fixed on the idea of creating an environment that involves many components of a balanced literacy program. We have a wide variety of reading and writing activities that help to build literacy growth every single day. We will focus equally on the components of reading, vocabulary, comprehension, spelling, writing, literature, phonics and a few others throughout this school year. Our goal by the end of the year is to have all students sufficient in all/many content areas. Majority of what your child learns in my classroom will relate to their everyday living. Our curriculum will  consists of topics that are true/real to their lives in which they live. There will also be topics that they may not be very familiar with, but we will build on their funds of knowledge to try an develop a familiarity with new, unknown topics. In doing so, your child will grow as a person and a learner.

We will reach all literacy components through five levels of scaffolding.
Modeled Reading/Writing: This begins with me. I will model to my students how good readers fluently read and thinking aloud during my writing pieces to express how writers may think.
Shared Reading/Writing: Students and I will read books together.  Along with creating writing samples together as  a large or small group.
Interactive Reading/Writing: Both my students and I will take turns during instructional reading and create text, taking turns writing.
Guided Reading/Writing: I will teach reading lessons to small, homegenous groups and also work on wrting strategies and skills.
Independent Reading/Writing: Students will self select independent reading books and write stories indpendentlty, using the writing process that has been taught.

Above are just a few ways of how your child  and their learning style, will be reached in our classroom. There will many more activities throughout the year to build on the idea of a balanced literacy program in our classroom.

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Mini-lessons will be what I do with your students when we gather together before the read! By doing a mini-lesson I want to help the students already have an understanding of what we will be reading, I want to get them excited and ready to read.

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Mini-lessons will be what I do with your students when we gather together before the read! By doing a mini-lesson I want to help the students already have an understanding of what we will be reading, I want to get them excited and ready to read.

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Fill in the blank worksheets are great for students to help with their comprehension, here is an example worksheet that your children will be doing this year

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Fill in the blank worksheets are great for students to help with their comprehension, here is an example worksheet that your children will be doing this year

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What will I be doing for your readers as their Teacher? 

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What will I be doing for your readers as their Teacher? 

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* I will be monitoring your children's reading to see where help is needed.
* Before we start reading, the class and I will gather in a circle and talk about the book. I will then have students break off and read with their reading partner, or alone if need be. I will walk around the class to supervise their reading.
*We will follow our readings with each student individually filling out a fill-in-the blank worksheet to demonstrate their understanding of the story.
*Reading is viewed as a conditioned response, and can be learned or unlearned as the result of stimulus. As your child teacher I want to make reading enjoyable and something they look forward to do. During each reading session I will give each child a sticker for completing their work. At the end of the week each child with a sticker for each reading session will be able to pick from my prize box.
*I can't wait to have so much fun with making your little readers and writers excited to read and write this school year!

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	Active and Engaged learners create their own knowledge

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	Active and Engaged learners create their own knowledge

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It is important to have a classroom that builds on collaboration, not competition.  In class students will work with a partner to complete a word sort.  Working on the word sort, students will ask questions, seek information, and build new knowledge to help them solve problems that may arise.

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	Active and Engaged learners build self-efficacy

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	Active and Engaged learners build self-efficacy

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It is a big job of mine to help your children feel as though they have the capability to complete the tasks at hand and to complete goals in the future.  I believe students who feel more confident are more likely to push themselves with more difficult tasks.

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Active and Engaged learners building on background knowledge

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Active and Engaged learners building on background knowledge

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In class your child will actively interact with their environment assimilating past knowledge with new information.  Before we begin a new topic the class will work together to fill out a K-W-L chart.  When we ask students what they already know they will think about their prior experience and knowledge with the topic.  The ‘want’ portion of the chart will help me better create projects and assignments that will interest your child.

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Families are able to  help children build their reading and writing at home too. 

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Families are able to  help children build their reading and writing at home too. 

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Students will bring home Reading Logs to complete certain number of pages of reading at night with a family member and get it signed after they are finished.

Have children write emails to different members of their family to learn when to capitalize letters and use correct punctuation that they will be taught in class.

Have children get a library card, try to take the to the library once a week. Let the students pick out book and discover all the books they have.

https://www.rif.org/- this website is known for providing free books to families who need them.This also have games, interactive stories, songs and book recommendation for kids up to age 12. This website also include bilingual activities.

https://www.scholastic.com/kids/home/- this website lets kids age 8-14 play games, test skills and knowledge about books, work on writing and express opinions.

http://teacher.scholastic.com/writewit/- this website allows students to collaborate with authors, editors and illustrators.

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Reading and writing go hand in hand, as a class we will use reading and writing together to build our knowledge. 

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Reading and writing go hand in hand, as a class we will use reading and writing together to build our knowledge. 

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Guided Reading:
Students will have small reading groups and take turns independently reading. I will check the progress of student's reading levels.

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Reading and writing go hand in hand, as a class we will use reading and writing together to build knowledge.

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Reading and writing go hand in hand, as a class we will use reading and writing together to build knowledge.

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Interactive Writing:
Students will come up with the ideas for the topic of writing and the teacher will write them correctly on the board. The students will help write some of the words on the board too!

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Reading and writing go hand in hand, as a class we will use reading and writing together to build knowledge. 

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Reading and writing go hand in hand, as a class we will use reading and writing together to build knowledge. 

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We know that students' minds differ from each other. As they learn how to read and write the knowledge will build for further learning as they get older.

Your child will not just be reading tons of books but building an understanding of each book they read. I will be exploring what types of books they enjoy to read, seeing if they are able to read independently, and helping them with reading when needed. We will not be only reading but writing too.They will learn to look at their own writing and see if they need to change anything, with guidance from myself.

Every student differs and makes their own decisions with what a the story they read means to them. Children will use their home life to relate to stories that they read or write.

Students will learn how to finish their reading or writing and what to do after they finish. It is important for students to be allowed time to brainstorm ideas to make sure they understand the activity being taught. Students will learn how to use small ideas to form bigger ideas for reading and writing.