{"id":533,"date":"2017-11-16T09:17:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/?p=533"},"modified":"2017-11-16T09:17:57","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T14:17:57","slug":"from-the-desk-of-the-kindergarten-teachers-kindergarten-is-for-language-development-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/2017\/11\/16\/from-the-desk-of-the-kindergarten-teachers-kindergarten-is-for-language-development-2\/","title":{"rendered":"From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers-Kindergarten is for Language Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers-<\/u><\/strong><strong><em>Kindergarten is for Language Development<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is familiarity with the English language that precedes and underlies excellent phonemic awareness instruction.\u00a0 It is this familiarity that allows a child\u2019s decoding to be error-free and their reading to be fluent.\u00a0 We must skillfully accelerate language learning \u2013 both thinking and oral communication \u2013 if we are to take a proactive approach to bridge the achievement gap and prevent later reading difficulties.\u00a0 That is why we encourage our children to hear grammatically correct English through their daily instruction and the literature they listen to.<\/p>\n<p>As Kindergarten teachers, we must provide experiences that make language come alive, dramatically articulating and fluently modeling the sounds of language.\u00a0 We invite kindergartners to rehearse language as singers, signers, and storytellers.\u00a0 Lively discussion about quality fiction and nonfiction allows us to connect books with children\u2019s lives and provide the vehicle for explicit teaching of comprehension strategies.<\/p>\n<p>We memorize, recite, and perform language.\u00a0 We differentiate instruction, honoring children\u2019s initial \u201cmagical memory reading\u201d and skillfully transitioning them to guided and independent reading.\u00a0 We are conscious that listening comprehension comes before reading comprehension.\u00a0 Our curriculum invites children to communicate and interact.\u00a0 Developing the child\u2019s capacity for language and thought underlies everything we do in kindergarten.\u00a0\u00a0 Please remember to read to your child (in whatever language you are native to) and continue to help our students become proficient in the English language!!!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1706\/2016\/09\/kg2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-374\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1706\/2016\/09\/kg2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the desk of the Kindergarten Teachers-Kindergarten is for Language Development It is familiarity with the English language that precedes and underlies excellent phonemic awareness instruction.\u00a0 It is this familiarity that allows a child\u2019s decoding to be error-free and their reading to be fluent.\u00a0 We must skillfully accelerate language learning \u2013 both thinking and oral <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/2017\/11\/16\/from-the-desk-of-the-kindergarten-teachers-kindergarten-is-for-language-development-2\/\">Continue reading &#8594;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1021"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/wentlaa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}