• Reading Program – some thoughts
  
  
  Start with a teacher’s evaluation of skill level. Form groups of kids – decide on whether we want mixed skill levels in a group or similar skill levels in a group.
  This was done today. Here are the groups
  1. Tia’s group – Kasey, Niko, Christopher and Hannah
  2. Sara’s group – Kiva, Eve, Michael and Vivek
  3. Dagny’s group – Emma, Kaycie B, Ryan and Akhil
  4. Viji’s group – Sophia, Abi, Jonah and Esteban
  5. Susan’s group – Lillian, Simone, Jack and Sage
  6. ? Group – Kings, Sam, Cole and Nithin
  7. ? Group – Caherine, McKenna, Elliot and Josiah

The last two groups have not been assigned a parent yet. We have four other parent volunteers.

• Simple exercises –this works for most kids: advanced or basic, but best for early reader
• Ice breaker exercises – introductions, without using words (Carrie’s idea) etc.
• Story building from pictures – pick or create a picture of some scene and get the kids to make a story about it.
• Story building game. Each kid gets to make a sentence of the story.

Book lists – discuss favorite books kids have already read

• Pick their favorite character– identify characters you like
• Describe the character – their understanding of the character
• Read the book in their voice/mannerisms etc.
• For early readers, as a warm up, we can do reading of simple stories, rhymes, songs in multiple voices

Pick a book all kids in the group can agree on

• Read a page/chapter at a time
• Play tag – choose the next reader and suggest a voice
• Write down words that are new – at the end of the session, look up dictionary for meanings of those words

Finish a book – follow-up exercises

• Character changes
• Be the author
• Figure out motivations
• Suggested exercises from the internet

Final presentation – choose a play or story which everyone gets to read aloud in front of teachers, classmates and maybe (?) parents

There are a lot of books in the room downstairs at school. We can pick from those, books that you would like to bring from home, library etc…