Literacy Page Updated: Building Stamina

Week of 9/4/2012

Today we started building Stamina in reading.  Building Stamina means we are training our brains to be able to read for an extended period of time.  We started this by exploring examples and non examples of how we build stamina.  Examples included: staying in the same place, continuing to read and track the words with our eyes the whole time, saving our conversations with others for another time.  Non examples were fun to demonstrate!  They included: moving all over during the reading time, talking to a friend, flipping through the pages instead of reading them, and looking around the room instead if at words/pictures/pages.  As a class we did an extraordinary job!  We were able to read for 3, 4, and 5 minutes showing great examples a good reading for the entire time.  We will continue this week and next week building to longer and longer periods of time!