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00:09	Hi . My name is Cristina Diverse line , and
00:11	I teach first grade at Brooke for Elementary in Brookville
00:14	, Ohio . In kindergarten , the students spend a
00:17	lot of time learning their letters and their sounds not
00:26	only being able to pick out the letters but also
00:29	to write the letters . It's a big difference ,
00:31	you know , from kindergarten to first . Not that
00:34	they don't work hard in kindergarten , but now they
00:36	have to take those foundational skills and kind of use
00:39	those to build upon and apply them in first grade
00:42	. We do start the year off with reviewing our
00:45	letters and their sounds , uh , obvious . Then
00:54	we'll start teaching them some of those long vowel teams
00:57	like E and E A . I G h .
01:00	Just all the different combinations that a chunk can make
01:03	. And the students are going to move from CVC
01:06	words or constant Val constant words like Cat . And
01:11	then they'll work their way up to more complex words
01:14	. We want them to be able to put the
01:17	words together . Um , but we also want them
01:19	to be able to , um , break words apart
01:22	. We've been doing some work where they have the
01:25	word cat , and I might ask them to change
01:27	the last sound to make a new word . So
01:29	if we change the last sound from A to A
01:33	well , what would that word make ? So we're
01:35	gonna do a lot of work with using what we
01:37	know about words and how we can build upon that
01:40	to help us with other words as far as reading
01:44	goes that are going to go from simple stories that
01:46	have repetitive text where they're gonna rely heavily on the
01:49	pictures . Come and they're gonna move to more complex
01:51	texts where they're going to have to use some strategies
01:54	to figure out unknown words and then being able to
01:58	recall what they've read , not just who was in
02:00	the story or what was the setting , but maybe
02:02	answering some higher level questions that might involve influencing or
02:06	drawing conclusions . And first grade , you're going to
02:09	see a big shift in their writing . They have
02:12	to know three different kinds of writing . The first
02:14	kind of writing is a narrative where the students write
02:17	about things that have happened to them . Students are
02:20	expected also to write opinion pieces , so they need
02:23	to be able to state their opinion and then give
02:25	us reasons why they feel that way . And then
02:29	they need to be able to close their writing in
02:31	regards to their opinion . And then the last type
02:34	of writing is to be able to write an informational
02:36	piece where they might give me information about a topic
02:40	. So to be able to state the topic ,
02:42	give me some details or teach me about that topic
02:45	and then again have some kind of closing to wrap
02:48	everything up in regards to speaking and listening . Um
02:51	, the students are expected to be able to sit
02:54	in a group and listen to either a speaker or
02:58	to a story . So if someone is talking ,
03:01	knowing okay , I have to wait my turn If
03:03	I want to say something , you know , I
03:04	raised my hand and making sure that one person is
03:07	talking at a time so everyone can share their ideas
03:10	in general language knowledge . We'll start talking about adjectives
03:13	. We also talk about common downs now is that
03:16	our people and places things were able to talk about
03:20	synonyms and antonym When we learn a new word ,
03:23	if you are being funneled , something confuses . So
03:27	listen to it and listen . When two bells rang
03:31	at the beginning of the school day , it befuddled
03:34	. The new students were able to use it in
03:37	a sentence , and I can hear . Okay ,
03:38	Do they really understand what that word means ? One
03:41	and two . Are they using it correctly ? So
03:44	that was the first word for the week . There
03:45	were three more . There's a lot that goes on
03:48	with language arts . The thing I like most about
03:51	teaching language arts is that language arts is not just
03:53	during language arts time . I can incorporate a lot
03:57	of the other subjects , like with science and social
03:59	studies . So you're learning about plants and we read
04:03	a fiction story in reading and then in science ,
04:06	were able to read a nonfiction book , and it's
04:08	just a really nice way to tie in language arts
04:12	standards when I can bring in social studies and I
04:14	can bring in science so the kids are learning that
04:16	content . But then we're also talking about those language
04:19	arts standards as well . So from the beginning of
04:22	the year , I think the difference that parents would
04:25	see is just their independence and their comfort level .
04:30	As the year goes on , you're going to see
04:32	them really just be more confident in themselves and their
04:35	ability to write things down . And their ability to
04:38	figure out those unknown words something that parents can do
04:42	to support their learners in first grade is reading to
04:44	them . You reading to them helps them here what
04:48	a fluent reader sounds like . You can ask them
04:50	questions from the book to see if they can recall
04:53	and answer key details from the text . And even
04:56	if you're reading higher level text , that's good ,
04:58	too , because the students are going to be exposed
05:00	to new vocabulary words . You can get books that
05:03	are at their level . You'll want your child to
05:05	be reading that book to you . So then your
05:08	child can practice the strategies they learned in class to
05:11	attack a word they may not know . My key
05:14	advice for the parents would be to know that your
05:18	child can do it . All learners are different .
05:21	Talk with the teacher and ask if there's anything else
05:24	you could do at home to support their learning .
05:26	But just know that your child is going to learn
05:29	lots of great things in first grade , and they're
05:31	going to be a totally different person from when they
05:33	came in to the end . Mm

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Watch first grade in action. Learn from Mrs. Dobberstein to nurture basic reading and student skills using narratives, opinions, and factual texts. Parents can learn from teachers what to expect in their childâs English Language Arts (ELA) and math classrooms and how to support their childâs

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