ELD Time {Working with the EOs}
Someone always has to take the EOs 🙂 I’m the lucky one this year. I’ve got 30 little English-Only first graders in my 30 minute ELD time. Since they aren’t ELD students, I can’t teach them ELD standards! Yikes.
So I came up with a plan. Fluency. Writing. Close Reading.
I try to use every second of my 30 minutes with my little EOs.
{minutes 1-5}
FLUENCY
As SOON as we come in, we are reading from our sight word power point. It flips through all of the sight words every 3 seconds. Sometimes I start the ppt later on in the words, sometimes I start at the beginning, it just depends.
Marcy from Saddle Up For 2nd Grade has some great sight word ppts in her store.
{minutes 5-15}
FLUENCY
I’m pretty sure this is my students’ favorite time of the day.
We take out our Roll & Reads, grab a crayon, grab FOAM dice {to save my sanity}, and get right to work with our partners. This is a fun way to get the students reading and recognizing sentences as well as spelling patterns. Depending on what sound/spelling pattern we are working on as a grade level, I use that particular skill. These Roll & Reads are organized by each spelling pattern.
{minutes 15-25}
CLOSE READING
We take the last 10-15 minutes working on close reading. We LOVE using Miss DeCarbo’s Text Evidence Passages. We get a little fiction & non-fiction in the mix.
What happened to the last of the 30 minutes? Let’s be honest, we all need a little clean up time 😉
My goal for next year: more independence during ELD time if I’m still with the EOs. Maybe work in some daily 5 & learn pads when they finally come my way!
Do you have the EOs? What do you do?