If your child has been the Helper in our class, he/she has probably brought home a morning message. Each day, we write a message for our class to read together.
With each morning message mini-lesson, there are usually several teaching points based upon the needs of the students in our class.
Examples of teaching points include:
1. learning about how we read text in English (e.g., we start at the top, left corner, and we read from left to right and from top to bottom; we say each word that we see/point to);
2. learning about different punctuation (e.g., . ! ? " "); and
3. learning how to write a complete sentence in response to a question in the message.
We also use the morning message to teach high frequency words in context. These words are eventually placed on our class 'Word Wall'. Students are then expected to spell the words correctly or use the Word Wall as a resource when writing. To date, these are the words we have worked on: a, and, are, am, can, is, I, like, no, see, the, we, & yes.
As always, if you have any questions/concerns, please feel free to contact us or leave a comment on the blog.
With each morning message mini-lesson, there are usually several teaching points based upon the needs of the students in our class.
Examples of teaching points include:
1. learning about how we read text in English (e.g., we start at the top, left corner, and we read from left to right and from top to bottom; we say each word that we see/point to);
2. learning about different punctuation (e.g., . ! ? " "); and
3. learning how to write a complete sentence in response to a question in the message.
We also use the morning message to teach high frequency words in context. These words are eventually placed on our class 'Word Wall'. Students are then expected to spell the words correctly or use the Word Wall as a resource when writing. To date, these are the words we have worked on: a, and, are, am, can, is, I, like, no, see, the, we, & yes.
As always, if you have any questions/concerns, please feel free to contact us or leave a comment on the blog.
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