Plan daily read aloud opportunities in your classroom. Students need to hear a fluent reading so they can model their own reading. Design a mini-lesson where you teach your children a focused lesson, such as reading strategies. After your pupils meet with you for the whole group lesson, send the children to read independently. While children are reading independently they should be practicing the skills you taught to the class. You should pull a small group to have a guided reading group. In a guided reading group, you will guide your group through a selected text that is on the children's instructional reading level. You will first model reading the book and then pass out a book for each child in your group to read. Read the story together then give the children time to practice reading the book on their own.
Teach a writing workshop lesson modeling writing styles. Start by teaching your class how to draw pictures on each page to tell a story. Transition children to writing and teach your class how to label their pictures. Other ideas for early writing examples are concept books, such as a number book or color book. Children should also be taught how to write pattern books. Pattern books have a simple text that repeats on each page. Many kindergarten students are reading books that follow simple patterns, so the transition is easy.
Begin word work by making words with your class. Create large letters for children to hold up. Show the children a picture and ask them to help you sound out the letters in the word. Invite a few children to come up and hold the letters the children select. Sound out the word with your class to check the spelling. Let students practice individually with magnets and picture cards.
Phonemic awareness teaches students how to hear sounds in the English language. Introduce nursery rhymes to your class. Encourage students to recite the rhyme along with you. Divide your class into two groups and have the first group say the first line, "Little Miss Muffet sat on a..." and group two says, "tuffet." Continue through the nursery rhyme and talk to the children about the words that rhyme. Give your pupils picture cards, which they can match up rhyming pairs. Pictures that are simple are the easiest for students to use, such as a picture of a bee and a tree.