Mrs. Limmer

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Our school believes that children who are good readers and writers will be 
better, happier students and citizens. We have made a commitment to do all 
that we can to ensure that all of our students will be good readers and 
writers. Because our school recognizes that all children learn differently, 
we know that we must find ways to reach children no matter what their 
strengths and weaknesses might be. 
As your child's teacher, I will be using a method of instruction called the 
Four-Blocks Model, and I want to tell you more about it. I also want to ask 
that you play an important part in helping  me with the development of your 
child as a reader and writer. 
There are four basic ways that students have always learned to read. 
Usually, a school or teacher would choose one of those methods in hopes of 
reaching most of the students. The Four-Blocks Model, however, allows me to 
teach all students by teaching all four methods every day. 
The Four-Block method has proven to be quite effective for the schools that 
implement it, and the first grade teachers at Westwood have worked hard to 
learn to use this method at our school.We have four-blocks of time devoted 
to language during the day. These blocks are as follows:
1)Guided Reading Block - Whole group instruction in which we teach the 
skills necessary to be good readers. We focus on areas of reading that will 
help your student to comprehend the written text. We get really excited 
about reading!
2)Self Selected Reading Block - During this time students will have an 
opportunity to see themselves as readers and will build their fluency, the 
ability to read smoothly. Students select books that they can read from the 
book shelf and read independently or with a small group. During this time 
the teacher will have conferences with students .
3)Writing Block - Students will learn to think about and use their knowledge 
of phonics to write compositions. They will learn penmanship, the writing 
process, grammar, and the mechanics of good writing.
4)Working with Words - During this time students explore words, word families
(patterns), spelling, and phonics, and to see how they can use what they 
learn about words in their reading and writing. Each week we introduce 5 new 
words that are added to our WORD WALL..these words are generally high 
frequency words or words that we use often that do not follow the phonetic 
rules.

If you have any questions about our reading program...please e-mail or call 
me at the school.

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Mrs. Limmer

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