{"id":3889,"date":"2015-09-28T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=3889"},"modified":"2015-09-29T10:26:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:26:52","slug":"a-writing-tip-for-every-year-first-grade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/a-writing-tip-for-every-year-first-grade\/","title":{"rendered":"A Writing Tip For Every Year: First Grade"},"content":{"rendered":"

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First Grade: Don\u2019t rush \u201cwriting\u201d when a child is learning to read.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t taught first grade in ten years. I have missed teaching a child to read\u2014so much that I have actually considered trying to get some hours at a tutoring center just to be able to teach beginning reading again. (I know; I\u2019m a hopeless romantic when it comes to teaching!)<\/p>\n

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Notice this tip is in the first grade paragraph\u2014not the kindergarten one. My children learned to read in first or second grade (okay, um, two in third).<\/p>\n

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If I were writing about reading (check out my dozens of blog posts about teaching a child to read<\/strong><\/a> here at the blog!), I would tell you first of all to wait for readiness. But since this is about teaching writing, I will tell you that learning to read is hard work. While some children (older girls!) do well writing a lot while they learn to read, oftentimes it is overload to have a child doing language arts (i.e. learning parts of speech, writing sentences, etc.) while he is learning to read.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve often wondered why curriculum programs have a \u201clearning to read\u201d program (phonics, readers, phonics workbooks) at the same time as a grammar book. It just didn\u2019t make sense to me. If a child is learning to read, and he doesn\u2019t know that many words, why would he need to learn that travel is a verb and giraffe is a noun? Yeah, that\u2019s what I thought too.<\/p>\n

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Do everything in your power to help your student become a strong reader (and to love reading and school!)\u2014wait for readiness, dig into the phonics lessons, have him read aloud once or twice every single day, build his listening comprehension (through reading aloud, audios, and discussion) so that once he is reading fluently, the reading comprehension will be there. But don\u2019t tax the sweet little guy by doing phonics lessons followed by writing\/English lessons as well.<\/p>\n

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Note: If you have a new reader who enjoys writing as SHE (smile) learns to read, consider my book, The Spelling Notebook<\/a>.<\/em> It is a word\/phonics sounds classification book in which new readers can record words they are learning to read as they learn each sound\/commonality. (Don\u2019t get it if your student does not have the small motor skills to write or if he is too overwhelmed writing the words he is learning to read.)<\/p>\n

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