The power that we are going to learn today, it's called picture power. Okay, are you ready to learn what that power is?Įmma Coufal: All right. You guys are all super readers, and we thought about what superhero we are when we're a super reader, so can you quietly whisper to your partner, 'What super hero do you want to be?'Įmma Coufal: And then we talked about how we've been using our superpowers to become super readers and that today they were going to learn a new superpower.Įmma Coufal: Just like superheroes, if we come to a word that's tricky or a book is hard, we can activate all of our powers. They're developing literacy and language skills, and then my job is to transfer those skills to English.Įmma Coufal: So we've been practicing being super readers. That if you're talking with your child and reading with your child, it doesn't really matter what language you're doing that in.

So I have students that come in, you know, in their home they speak Spanish or Cambodian or Man or Mien, like so many wonderful languages, and really valuing and telling the parents that we value that too. I think it's a lot about valuing what they bring in and where they come from. Let's try 'car'.Įmma Coufal: We like to bookend the lessons with some sort of a phonics or phonemic awareness game, and so we play pop it so they could just play the sound, the first sound that they heard when we talked about a picture, and it was just a little warm up for them and also to know that they were going to be using those pictures and first sounds and what we were going to be doing.Įmma Coufal: Most of my students are language learners.

Think College Now Elementary, Oakland, CAĮmma Coufal: Today's lesson was a reader's workshop lesson on using pictures to figure out an unknown word.Įmma Coufal: So I'm going to point to a picture and you guys are going to help me by popping it. I teach Kindergarten at Think College Now Elementary School in Oakland California.

Student: 'I am under the yellow umbrella.'Įmma Coufal: We're going to start our readers workshop by playing a game that you guys know really well called pop it, and we're going to pop it with a book we read today.Įmma Coufal: My name is Emma Coufal. Reading Workshop in Kindergarten Transcript

Kindergarten reading activity