Cunningham- Week 3

Week three is complete! Today was a little different than the past two weeks because one of my classmates, Brooke, was co-teaching with me. We paired up, so now it is the two of us and our student for the remaining weeks. Our second grader was a little thrown off by this and we think it had to do with there being someone new there. It took us a little bit to get into the swing of things, but we ended up starting off with the concept of print book and going through that. This started out a little rough because she didn't want to go at the pace of how the text evaluation was supposed to be recorded. It took us a while to get on the same page and have her slow down to answer the questions we were asking about the text. Once she began to answer, we were able to get through the book with her answering all of the questions according to what we were asking. After the concept of print book, we moved onto introducing the book for the week about animals that we were going to read.

When we pulled the book out Giraffes Can't Dance by Giles Andreae. She immediately stated that she had read the book before and didn't need to read it again. We ended up asking her if she would read it to us since we hadn't read the book in a while and wanted to remember how it ended. She was open to this idea and then was able to read the book with help from us. Some pages we would read together and some she could read on her own. I think a big part in getting her to read is telling her you will read it with her and helping her with the words if you see her struggling.

Overall, I think that this week went fairly well and we can take this knowledge and apply it to the next time since there will be two of us there for the next three weeks.