Reading Workshop in Kindergarten

[@janetbeatrice9505]

No offense, but this woman is not teaching children how to read; she's teaching them how to guess. And she was probably taught in college that this method works. She's using the long-debunked 3-cueing method. It's still being used now, even though we knew long before Marie Clay and Lucy Calkins came along how to teach children to read. The saddest thing is that Rudolf Flesch wrote about this in 1955 and yet America is still using flawed, unscientific methods! Simply teach the children phonics! It works and it's actually much easier than this guessing game approach.

[@unrulybxite]

Facts. I came to this video in a roundabout way and I feel like the flaws with this are obvious: What good is "picture power" in books that have no pictures? When you get to 6th grade, what skills are you using to discern words and meaning from a text? How about at the high school level? Very bizarre (and laborious) approach to reading to just guess what the next word could be like some sort of LLM.

[@janetbeatrice9505]

@@unrulybxite Yes! As Rudolph Flesch said in his first book, you would have to teach the child to read every word individually. That's a lot harder than phonics! What is an LLM?

[@unrulybxite]

@@janetbeatrice9505 LLMs are large language models like ChatGPT whose method of producing text responses based on prompts from the user involves predicting sequentially what the next word in the response should be (at a very basic level). This works well for LLMs because they're trained on a massive amount text input from all over the internet and can quickly do complex calculations both to decipher meaning from user input and then to predict at a high level how to respond. Kindergartners should not be trying to read that way (predicting/guessing what word comes next). My comment about the LLMs was more in jest, but it really does astound/fascinate me that this method of instruction was allowed to proliferate long after it had been discredited by scientific studies. It's such a long and tedious method for what should become an automatic process (via phonics). Sorry for the long response! I have fallen down a bit of a rabbit hole with this.

[@angelitamanzano9388]

I don't think the "picture power" or looking at first letter & guessing strategies meet the CC kinder standards for Phonics & Word Recognition: Phonics and Word Recognition: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3 Know and apply grade-level phonics and word analysis skills in decoding words. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.A Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter-sound correspondences by producing the primary sound or many of the most frequent sounds for each consonant. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B Associate the long and short sounds with the common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels. CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.C Read common high-frequency words by sight (e.g., the, of, to, you, she, my, is, are, do, does). CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.D Distinguish between similarly spelled words by identifying the sounds of the letters that differ.

[@Atanatari165]

Those standards are the goal for the END of K. Kids don't start K being able to do all that

[@janetbeatrice9505]

@@Atanatari165 They should start by learning the letter sounds. Then they should learn to blend short CVC words. This method of using pictures to guess the word actually inhibits them from learning to decipher words.

[@katepearceeducationalservi2232]

Teaching children to look at the first letter and the picture is teaching them how to GUESS not to read!!! This is a terrible practice!! What happens when there are no pictures?!!!!

[@ccamour]

Can you make more videos like this? This is great!

[@SofiaPx]

What about hard and soft c? C doesnt always sound out like a k. Does this approach not cause them to get confused with the usage of the c sound in words? For example in celery, the c sounds out like an s. Just a query from an emerging teacher to children :)

[@janetbeatrice9505]

After all that, I will say that it's okay to start them off the the hard c sound, as long as you're teaching phonics. But you'd want to start with 'cat' (a word they can sound out after learning the letter sounds) and not 'caterpillar.'

[@jennagrigsby2056]

Hi! Would you mind if I use a clip of this in a presentation for my masters program?

[@lonesilv]

Yikes on bikes...🤦‍♂️

[@MantoWong]

she's such a great teacher OMG

[@jameshainer-violand461]

Good stuff

[@malandrina2]

You're such a great teacher. I teach Kindergarten and I know it takes a lot of work to get them to that level. Congratulations and thanks for sharing. I am ordering witch fingers today.

[@brendyso]

Thanks forma shared 😍

[@sherriejohnson1585]

I loved your reading workshop where did you find the super power cards that you use

[@kyleehopely9571]

School assignment here Strengths Started off with a game of the book they read and got the students engaged Worked on sounds of letters Understand that english isn’t the only language Used superpowers to help the kids engage and help them understand more Had students repeat what she was saying Worked with some children individually Took notes on how students were doing Very engaging Praised students Weaknesses Pictures and writings could have been a little bigger on the clipboard for the children to see When the students guessed the word butterfly she said “I think it is butterfly lets see if I am right” I feel like this could take away from the children feel success or achievement as she is putting the achievement on herself When the girl was reading the word like I feel as she could have given her a little more time to try and get it herself

[@prasadvishnu9759]

Your Work is great creating better people through education