Report Evidence #3 RICA Domain #1/ Competency 1

TC Name: Sahra Camberos

RICA Domain: Planning, Organizing and Managing Reading Instruction Based on Ongoing Assessment

RICA Competency: Planning, Organizing and Managing Reading Instruction D.1, E.1

Grade Level: Kindergarten

                This isn’t a lesson but this is one tool that my cooperating teacher uses to make sure that students are reading outside the classroom under the supervision of parents/guardians. Our students are still at the beginning stages of recognizing sight words and letter recognition; therefore at this stage most students will be read to instead of actually doing the reading on their own. The teacher enrolled the students in a reading program entitled, “Book-It.” This is a program that gives children a free pizza from Pizza Hut for every 10 books they read.

                While this is a great incentive for children, my teacher requires that every two weeks 10 books be read to the students and kept track of in the reading log, which the teacher collects. This gives parents a role in their students learning to read because the reading log requires a parent signature.  For this reading log the teacher does not care which books are read for the first couple of months but as time goes by she increases the standard of what the kindergarteners should be reading. She also does not count pages; she’s more interested in the books they read instead of reading to a number page.

INSTRUCTIONAL SETTING: The teacher has a library that is used by the children daily if they finish their center work early. They also have comfy rugs and big pillows that they can lay on when sitting in the library corner. This gives the library a homey feeling encouraging them to finish their center work faster so they can spend time in the library.