Literacy Balance in a Kindergarten Class.

 Hello everyone, today I want to share with you my opinion about an interesting article that talks about how to connect the literary components in a balanced way in a class.

After analyzing this and other articles related to the subject I have come to the conclusion that these literary components are a fundamental part of the student's early learning.

We begin by analyzing the shared writing, as a teacher I have the opportunity to learn from my students, for example If I read a story aloud, once we finish, together we analyze everything related to the story we read, by asking different questions and helping them to come to the essential analysis of the story. Some of the questions are: where did the story take place? Who are the characters in the story? What happened at the beginning of the story? What happened after? What happens at the end of the story? And so I lead them to recreate the story in their own words. At the same time they write orally their own opinion about it. This way I am connecting 2 important literary components reading aloud and shared writing.

When we finish doing this analysis then students are already prepared to extend the story and give it a different ending connecting it with their own real life. In my case I really like to use the question ‘What would you do if you were the main character in the story?’ This simple question helps me to know more in depth how my students think and what their dreams are and at the same time it is very fun and trained for them.

Other components we can use and connect are Writing Workshops and Reading Workshops.

In my kindergarten class 3 times a week, I divide my class into 5 groups.

# 1 they go on the pc and their task is to draw something that starts with the letter of the week and write a sentence about it.

 # 2 read a story together, analyze it and in the end draw their favorite part and write a sentence about what they drew using the words learned.

# 3 make a mini-book with the letter of the week and write three sentences using the learned high frequency words.

# 4 they have to write in their workbook a sentence using the amazing words learned and draw a picture about it.

# 5 shared books on the topic of the week on the carpet and discusses what happened in the story.

I go through all the groups working one by one with the students

And giving them differentiated attention, this way I find out where the difficulties of each of my students are, so that I can plan activities that help them to advance and learn every day.

It is very important to show in class all the materials necessary for the child at the time of writing, for example the list of amazing words, the high frequency words, the website of the letter of the week with drawings, I provide all the information required So they can work independently.

Finally, also, daily implement Interactive Writing and share reading.

Every morning in the morning meeting when we talk about the letter of the week 

I write on the blackboard part of the word and I ask them to read the word together so they realize what sound is missing, I ask a child to come and write the letter of that missing sound and so I do until the word is complete. Also I put in Pearson the video of the history of the week where one of the activities is to read the mini book I give them time to read a part of the book each one, to finish, this activity is also very fun and functional for them.