This week, I saw Mrs. Suttles do echo reading with a book from their open court activity. She had all the children sit in a circle on the floor, and she read them the whole story one time. Then she went back and read a sentence, and then the children read the same sentence after her. After this she let them go around the circle and take turns reading a sentence from the story. She let them decorate popsicle sticks, and they can use them for finger pointing if they don’t want to use their finger. I think this is a neat idea, and the kids seem to like it. I saw all of them get out their reading stick when it was time to read the story. I have enjoyed helping the students with their journals this week. Some of the students need help, so Amber and I will help them by sounding out the letter sounds for them to write sentences. She has several EC students in her class, so Amber and I have been trying to help them for Mrs. Suttles. I have loved being in Mrs. Suttles classroom.
I love the idea of the popsicle stick as a pointer, that is great!