This year I start everyday with a morning message. I have found this is a very good way to differentiate learning whole class. They begin with pair and share. Then students come up one at a time to tell us a word they already know, a letter they already know or a letter they want to learn. It has been amazing to watch some students read words I would have never known they could read. We talk about the strategies they use to figure out what they word is. This has also become a perfect opportunity for me to work on the components of the Reading Readiness Screening Tool. I Some of the activities that I have been using with my morning message are:
- We circle the words they know and underline the letters they know.
- We clap the words in the sentence.
- Find rhyming words.
- Identify how many syllables in certain words.
- Breaking apart and putting together a word
- Oral Cloze
I have found that using a daily morning message has given the students a better understanding on why these skills are important to learn.
The students also love to count how many words they can read as a class. We count how many words are circled and do a few activities on this number. Showing the number in different ways etc.
The following is a link with some information on the purpose behind a daily message and different activities that can be done with a daily message.
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