For shared reading this week, we read Monkey's shoes.
We have been learning to use a clear voice (not mumbling) and not speaking too quickly.
We found that our next step is to keep working on using the right volume as some of the reading was hard to hear.
Taison was our Monkey.
Sophie was our Parrot.
Tyler was our Man.
All the children in Room Totara were the narrators.
Here are some other focuses during shared reading of Monkey's shoes this week:
Predicting (these were our predictions):
- A monkey with shoes
- A happy monkey who likes shoes
- A monkey who finds some shoes.
- A monkey in the jungle.
Start:
Monkey found some shoes.
Middle:
Monkey wore the shoes, he climbed in the trees, danced in the trees and hopped in the trees.
End:
The monkey fell out of the tree and the shoes fell off. The man took his shoes back.
We also focussed on the language used in the story:
Dancing - moving around to music
Stomping - thumping your feet noisily
Screeching - making lots of noise
Bruise - blood under your skin which makes your skin go black, red, brown, purple, yellow.
Synonyms (words that mean the same thing)
SCREECHING - screaming, shouting, loud, yelling
