Nellie Edge Online Seminar #3 Joyful Accelerated Literacy With High-Frequency Sight Words: We Call Them “Heart Words” 1
These symbols will help you make the most of this Joyful Pathways Seminar. The most important ones are the complementary resources. ~ The enclosed heart means resources are included in your seminar download SSS&R ~ Sing, Sign, Spell, and Read! is a CD of 32 “heart word” songs, anthology pages, and fingerspelling cards (All FREE downloads) ~ Free online video clips at www.nellieedge.com ~ Reflection questions for your study group ~ Our Website tab with fingerspelling videos ~ Common Core State Standards ~ See our Pinterest board for “heart word” pins ~ Our Kindergarten Blogs feature “heart words” and glimpses of excellence! ~ Teacher Pay Teachers 3
What are The Research-Based Principles That Guide Our Practice? Children learn best when you give them a crystal • clear achievable target to work towards, monitor their progress, and acknowledge their success. The brain is a musical brain . • Emotional engagement is the key to all powerful • learning. Beginning writing instruction teaches reading . • For Stamina in Writing Workshop Children Need: A repertoire of words and sentences they can • fluently write “by heart” and Proficiency with phonics so they can write • CVC words and fearlessly tackle any unknown words. This seminar is about how to teach “heart words” through joyful accelerated literacy strategies 7
Finally, We Get to Write “Secret Messages” to Take Home: An Authentic Reason to Showcase our Writing Skills with the Most Powerful Message of All: I love you! Kindergarten friends, to whom do you say “I love you?” Talk to your writing partner. Who says “I love you to you? We are going to make secret messages … Where will you hide yours? • How many messages will you write? (Finn wrote 10, so Lucas wrote 20!) • Messages can be put in a business envelope to take home and hide. • This is the essence of teaching heart words: making writing meaningful! 23 •
Independent Writing/Drawing Bookmaking Totes Invite Children to Draw and Write “Heart Word” Sentences, Use Good Handwriting, Spacing Between Words, and Punctuation. We Are Building the Reading Brain! 52
Teachers Also Get Very Creative Developing Movable or Permanent Word Walls Here is an innovative auto drip pan word wall. It hangs from a PVC frame with zip ties through holes To save space for this traditional drilled into corners word wall, we cut apart the vertical ABC Phonics Chart. (See resources) 70
Teachers A s Ask sked d Me Fo For a S a Son ong g That T t Teaches “i “ing”: ”: Here it is! There’s an “ing” in king! Create Playful Memory Hooks through Music and Sign Language First review i-n-g with fingerspelling Sing There’s an “ing” in King! The transfer to writing is powerful once they have this song in their long-term memory Emotional engagement is the key to all powerful learning! ♫ SSS&R (#23) 93
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