During our
morning routine all the children in Year One participate in shared reading
sessions. Essentially this involves
myself reading aloud while children follow along and join in where possible.
A variety
of big books are used which enables myself to point out words as I read using a
special pointer which helps the children learn the various concepts of print.
This includes directionality, one to one correspondence between spoken and
written word and helps children to learn some simple punctuation such as
capital letters, full stops, commas or speech marks. It also helps children
improve their active listening skills and provides a platform to develop
comprehension strategies to understand what is being read.
In the
first few weeks of school, our class read a book called Baaboom! This book
followed a small chicken and a Big Bull who bullied the chicken and took her
balloon away from her. He blew it up so
big that eventually he went…..’Baabooom!’. This shared reading experience
enabled us to use our skills that we had learnt from the story to create a
piece of work to show their understanding.
We acted out the story using masks and some children had a chance to be
a character from the book, which was very exciting! We also related our story
back to real life experiences and had a balloon race – being careful not to make our balloon go ‘Baabooom!’. It was down to Lachlan and
Annabelle in the balloon race and it was Lachlan that took out the top prize!
In Year One
we want to create a positive attitude toward reading and in turn produce a
community of confident readers who share and discuss their ideas with you, the
parents. I have included some photos of our learning for you to enjoy!
Thank you
for your support!
Miss Prowse
