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Morning Storyboard

by Donna from K-3 Teacher Resources
(Australia)

Morning Storyboard....

A great way to start each morning is with a morning storyboard.

You can use a flip up chart sized book, good old butchers paper - or nowadays IWB. Basically write a class message which is read first thing each morning.

It might be something like this ......
"Good Morning Year 1 Super Stars. Today is Monday the 12th of December. Today we are going to learn about rhyming words."

Each day could be a different reading activity - sometimes I would add a riddle, or a joke, sometimes I would leave words out for the children to fill in, or miss-spell words for children to find.

Also great to jumble the words up and children need to work together to put the sentence back in order. A lot of fun - with great use of language and sentence structure practise.

Again, we would play with the words - circle words, letters, sounds, play games with the sentences etc.

You could also get the children to write, or dictate the morning storyboard - each child taking it in turns.......We had a lot of fun with this...

DON'T FORGET TO THEN MAKE YOUR MORNING STORYBOARD MESSAGES INTO CLASS BOOKS EACH WEEK, MONTH OR TERM - THEN POP THE BOOK INTO BOOK CORNER FOR SILENT / FREE READING....KIDS LOVE IT...

NOTE: We have just started a 'Did You Know' Interesting Facts each Day for Morning Storyboard... via Twitter - you can follow the tag - #K3DiduKnow via a twitter search....here is the link....

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Morning Storyboard

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May 20, 2009
 Multicultural Perspective
by: Kerry Bender

Great idea!
Morning story board!
You could add a hello in different languages adding a multicultural perspective and start with cultures represented in your classroom and in your area. The children can go home and find out more.
Jun 15, 2008
 News Book
by: Malachi

I use a morning News Book in which I write up some event, something we have done, or a student's news, asking the children to spell the words as I write.

I use the top page (back of previous page) to make word patterns, syllables etc. One book has about 7 entries, and we read back through the book each day.(I have "Boss for the Day or BFT who takes charge of this process)

At the end of the year we re-read our books and children take one each home. They often become treasures.
Nov 20, 2007
 Great idea!
by: Donna

I have a class journal which is very similar to your concept here.

More often, I have the students tell me the entire message and I scribe while modelling good reading and writing skills for them.

This is one of the best things I've ever introduced.

It really sets us up for the whole day and brings so much of our literacy learning in so wonderfully.

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