Do you know this word?

This site has tons of sight word support for kinder and first grade.  Any teacher who is trying to reinforce high-frequency words will appreciate this writing.  http://mrskilburnkiddos.wordpress.com/reading/sight-words/

I like chant and writing ideas

To introduce students to writing about what they like, many teachers introduce students to an idea chart.  The students and teacher generate a list of things or items they like.  This scaffolds writing.

High-Frequency Words

 
We are going in to the hallway. 

I am Mrs. Bradford (the teacher). 

my books

We have no squishy writing. 
No wearing hats in schools.

We like snack.  (This is the place where the teacher keeps the snacks.)

This is the calendar. 
Students learn the high-frequency words because they learn to attach meaning to the words.

Jan Thomas books

A kindergarten teacher who is also a great friend of mine, recommended this book to me.  She is using this book this week in her classroom this week with her students.  It will  reinforce the high-frequency word, on.  On keeps popping up in the book, What Will Fat Cat Sit On? by Jan Thomas. 
http://www.amazon.com/What-Will-Fat-Cat-Sit/dp/0152060510/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1232562806&sr=1-1
She wrote A Birthday for Cow!.    Her [...]

Apple Happy poem and book

Students make a book of their own after they have read the poem numerous times.

Students read the poem with the teacher numerous times. The teacher adds the clip art to the chart with the students so that it truly assists the students. This teacher quickly laminates it during lunch or gym [...]

Predictable Chart Day 5 Humpty Dumpty

When students enter, the predictable chart pages are ready to go. Their pages are at their seats.
At the beginning on the year, the students have a matching sentence printed on the paper, but this sentence is gone by October for most students. (This sentence is not the Humpty Dumpty sentence by the way.)

Teacher models [...]

Predictable Chart Day 4 Humpty Dumpty

Cut Up Sentences – Whole Group and Small Group

1. Write 2-4 sentences from the chart on sentence strips.
2. Show one sentence strip to the students.
3. Have the child who said the sentence come to the front of the room and read his/her sentence to the class. The child points to the words as (s)he reads [...]

Predictable Chart Day 3 Humpty Dumpty

Procedure
Students sit in a circle. All of the students have a copy of their own sentence.

Modeling
The teacher reads her own sentence first to a beanie baby. The teacher models pointing to the word as the teacher says the word.

Child reading with teacher support as needed
Each child holds a beanie baby in their lap [...]

Predictable Chart Day 1 Building Prior Knowledge Humpty Dumpty

Read Humpty Dumpty every day before the Predictable Chart.

To build background knowledge for the predictable chart, Humpty Dumpty, the teacher has a sentence strip that says, “He can sit on ______.” The teacher also has lots of pictures of items that Humpty might sit on or might NOT sit on. The children are sorting [...]

Predictable Chart Day 1 Humpty Dumpty

The teacher asked the students to answer the question, “What can Humpty sit on?” The students answer in a complete sentence, “He can sit on … a/the … .” The child says the sentence. This reinforces the concept that their talk is written down. Students rehearse in a complete sentence. If a child gives a [...]