Hi everyone:
I have two pre-K children, and one of my reading tutoring goals is to have them use prior knowledge and picture clues to aid in comprehension. Any ideas on activities and ways to document their progress?
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Joan,
I am in a kindergarten class as well and we do an activity call a picture walk. A picture entails only looking at the pictures in the book BEFORE reading the text. Have the students read the title and predict what might happen in the book, or what the book is about. In a picture walk, you can ask your kinders what does picture say? What do you think will happen in the next picture? See if the students can relate a personal experience to pictures, which a text to self response, relate to another book, text to text response, or even have them relate to reality, text to world response. You can choose a picture randomly in the book to discuss as group, have them pick their favorite picture or even just go through all the pictures in the book.
I think that because you are working with such young students, in order to maximize their comprehension, you will definitely need to conduct a very engaging activity (especially since you told me that your two tutees are best friends). My suggestion would be to read a really great picture book that is at their level with as much enthusiasm as you can so you can really make an impression to them about the story. Mo Willems has great books for students at this age. Afterwards, you could ask them to retell the events of the story and record it exactly how they say it quickly by hand. You could also photocopy the several pictures from the story after you read it to them and have them glue the pictures in the correct order and have them tell you what each picture is about and write down their responses. Obviously they aren't able to write sentences yet. You recording their responses exactly as they say it should serve as sufficient documentation.
I also think it is a great idea to have the student's look at the pictures before reading the story. My daughter is in preschool and she loves to look at all the pictures in a book and try to tell the story just by looking at the pictures. I went to her school and taught a lesson. We read a book about summer vacation. All the student's were interested in the book because we talked about all the fun vactions they had been on before we read the story. While I was reading we talked about the different pictures and what the kids were doing in each picture. My daughter is able to remember the story I read to her because she remembers what's happening in all the pictures.
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