Use listening, writing, reading, and viewing to assist with speaking. Students share their writing by reading aloud from the Author s Chair. In addition to responses about content, the listeners comment on the reader s volume and fluency during reading. Adjust oral communications for different purposes and audiences. When they have practiced it and know their parts, they perform it for several audiences at school and for their parents.
Students read a short story.
During discussion, volunteers assume the roles of characters. Classmates become reporters and interview the characters to clarify details, feelings, reactions and story events. Read with comprehension. To help children understand that text has meaning segments, the teacher writes on chart paper a song of several verses that the children know, such as The Farmer in the Dell. . The teacher erases or blocks out the names of the animals or the verbs and invites students to discuss how the meaning is affected.