They Will Want to Build Words during Guided Reading Centers

Check out these students in Mrs. Porte's 1st Grade Class. This is the beginning of their guided reading lesson. The teacher is working with this small reading group and the focus of the lesson is on making words focusing on the beginning and ending sounds. She had one iPad and the 2 students were working together to build words. As you can see in the video, one student added the beginning letter and the other added the ending letter.

After this activity on the iPad, they were asked to create a sentence on sticky notes that would reinforce the sounds they worked on with the app. They partner checked each other's sentences to look for capitals, punctuation, and spelling. Here is a sample of what the students would see.

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