The past thirty days my life has been consumed with literacy. I have been writing things to send home to families to explain the systems and goals of my classroom, I have been working with students to write, read, and understand classroom rules and procedures, my first and second graders have been working SO hard to build their reading stamina every single day, I have started guided reading groups and conferring with my kiddos. Life is good because I love teaching reading.
When my kids are reading I am walking around conferring with them or meeting with them in guided reading groups. I love this hour of the day because I get such intimate time with each student. When I can talk with a kiddo one on one about books that they are truly enjoying I learn so much about what interests them. I also get some extremely valuable assessment time. After having a 2-3 minute conversation with a student, I know of they understand what we learned in the min-lesson that day. Sometimes, I am just flat out knocked out by their responses! For example, when someone from my district asked one of my boys, "I see that you put a post-it note with a question mark on this page, did you have a question about this page?" and he responded "No," (GULP) "this page is just a mystery to me, what do you think is going on here?". I mean folks, I think he got it.
Anyway, I have gotten off track. I am loving my reading workshop time this year, but that wasn't my intent for this post today. One of my kids asked me the other day, "Mrs. Phillips what do you read when you are at home?". Well, bud... it's funny you should ask. I am taking 6 hours at the University of Louisville this semester and apparently literacy professors really like to assign reading?!? Who would have thought. Here are my current reads...
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