RAZ Kids

Over the past week and a half children in our class have been practicing using their RAZ Kids accounts as well as a listening station in our classroom during Readers' Workshop. RAZ Kids is a wonderful online resource to which UMS teachers have a subscription. Each student uses a password to log in to a web page with "good fit books" at their reading level to practice reading. Our listening station gives students the ability to listen and follow along with high quality children's literature that is above their current "good fit" reading level. In our classroom, Readers' Workshop looks like a whole class mini-lesson on a reading skill, then silent, independent reading, followed by literacy stations (currently the station choices are buddy reading, RAZ kids, and listening), and last a quick, whole-group reading share. As the school year continues I will introduce more literacy station activities for students to choose from to increase the variety of ways they practice interacting with text. Below are a few photos of students using the listening station and their RAZ Kids accounts. Don't forget, your child can access their RAZ Kids account from home by clicking the RAZ Kids tab at the top of my blog!