I love having free reading time with my students. It gives them a chance to explore books, and allows me to learn so much about them. Do they even know how to hold it? What types of books do they gravitate towards? Are they generalizing sight word identification into their reading? Etc. etc. etc...
I have a lot of new babies in my room this year. The crew I had previously was higher functioning and had really adapted to our classroom expectations and all of those executive functioning behaviors. I adapted books minimally, but many of my students loved being read to or could read our basic books. Now, my new bunch of cuties are quite different. Many of them are pre-readers and need a LOT of prompting to follow 2 step + directives. During the first week of school, I had free-reading with limited prompting to see what they would do - which included a lot of sitting and staring (either at me or at the cover of a book), stimming, and throwing books. I knew immediately that I would have to get back on an adapted book kick, QUICK!
Here is one of my favorite ways to adapt a book. It's so simple and can be used as a non-identical matching work task as well as for engaging with books during a quiet or free reading time. I picked up this book at the Target Dollar Spot, laminated matching Boardmaker pictures, and Velcro-ed it up.
Another way I need to adapt my books is more physically. Many of my kiddos have fine motor challenges, and turning pages can be really difficult. This is a quick adaptation - just taping on a piece of thick paper to help with page turning!
I have a lot of new babies in my room this year. The crew I had previously was higher functioning and had really adapted to our classroom expectations and all of those executive functioning behaviors. I adapted books minimally, but many of my students loved being read to or could read our basic books. Now, my new bunch of cuties are quite different. Many of them are pre-readers and need a LOT of prompting to follow 2 step + directives. During the first week of school, I had free-reading with limited prompting to see what they would do - which included a lot of sitting and staring (either at me or at the cover of a book), stimming, and throwing books. I knew immediately that I would have to get back on an adapted book kick, QUICK!
Here is one of my favorite ways to adapt a book. It's so simple and can be used as a non-identical matching work task as well as for engaging with books during a quiet or free reading time. I picked up this book at the Target Dollar Spot, laminated matching Boardmaker pictures, and Velcro-ed it up.
Another way I need to adapt my books is more physically. Many of my kiddos have fine motor challenges, and turning pages can be really difficult. This is a quick adaptation - just taping on a piece of thick paper to help with page turning!
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