Burst+3

=Lake Orienta Free Reading= == =Burst #: 3=

=**Grades Kindergarten and First**= =(Your evaluation will influence the level and focus of your next Burst.)= = =

**Rate the entire Burst**
=__Level/Focus:__ Too Easy, Just Right, Too Hard= =If too easy or too hard, explain:=
 * Fife/1st grade--**Level Focus: Just right for MOST students
 * Goldstein/1st Grade--** Level Focus: Just right.
 * Sanford/1st grade**--Level Focus:
 * Braccio/1st grade**-Level Focus: Just right.
 * Danner/Kdg--**Level Focus: Just Right for most Students
 * Nuñez/Kdg--**Level Focus:
 * Baños/1st grade--**Level Focus:
 * Frage/Kdg---**Level Focus:Just right for most Students
 * Sanford/1st grade--**Level Focus:
 * Hartsfield/Kdg--Level Focus:** Just Right

=__Pace:__ Too Easy, Just Right, Too Hard= Goldstein/1st grade--Pace: Just right =**If too easy or too hard, explain:**=
 * Fife/1st grade**--Pace:just right
 * Sanford/1st grade**--Pace:
 * Braccio/1st grade**--Pace: Just right.
 * Danner/Kdg**--Pace: Just Right
 * Nuñez/Kdg**--Pace:
 * Baños/1st grade**--Pace:
 * Frage/Kdg**--Pace:Just Right
 * Hartsfield/Kdg**-- Pace: Just Right

Were there any activities in the Burst that you would modify/change? If so, how and why? Other comments:

 * Fife/1st grade**--I would really like to see more activites involving reading the newly-taught sound in words directly after learning the new sound. (For ex. kn says /n/. Let's read words using this sound...knot, know, etc.) My group played the letter-combination games everyday. The students got bored of pulling the letters from the hat. Before starting many activities involving reading stories and sentences, we had to take time to review skills needed for reading.


 * Goldstein/1st Grade**-- When teaching a new sound, it is important to go from sound, to words, to short phrases, and then passages. Often the sound introduction activities stopped there and would not be picked up until reading a letter combo story the next day. Also, when reading those stories, some of the vocabulary needed reviewing as well.


 * Sanford/1st--**


 * Braccio/1st**-- The students enjoyed the connect four game, however it would be nice if laminated connect four game boards were provided sot that they could be used over again. Reading the connected text sentences is also a great idea, however the sentences did not seem to focus on the newly taught sound. It would be nice to focus on sounds, then words with those sounds, then sentences, and finally passages. I also never recieved a link for the passages so I had to type up the stories each time. The first time reading the story I also copied it onto large chart paper so that we could focus on the words with the new sounds as a group. We also used the large chart paper story to talk about some words the students were unfamiliar with. I have 2 ELL students, so some of the words in the stories were difficult for them. I really liked the idea of the word puzzle however this took a long time to make. In the future I plan to make a laminated word puzzle so that I can change the words on the pieces. The only problem with this activity is that there was a lot of down time in between each students turn. The students enjoyed pulling the sounds from the bag in the beginning, however they seemed to get tired of doing this everyday.


 * Danner/Kdg--** Maybe the bag game - change it up a bit


 * Nuñez/Kdg--**


 * Baños/1st grade--**

sounding out words by playing the Hot Potato bucket game.
 * Frage/Kdg--**The last game in Burst 2--(Thumbs Up/ Thumbs Down) Before playing the game,we reviewed


 * Hartsfield/Kdg**-- The only recommendation I have for activities in the KA group is to incorporate more games that are hands-on or require some type of subtle movement.

Other comments:
**Fife-1st grade--**Some skills are left out. Reading the new sound in words, sight words, and writing the sounds are not included in my activites and would greatly benefit the lowest in the groups. The beach ball game is fun, but not appropriate for a small group within a classroom. Many times my five activites estimated time would not total 30 minutes. A few times the total time added up would be 50-55 minutes. It never took that long, but the times should be adjusted.


 * Goldstein-1st grade--** The program includes some great games, but often there was just too much repetition of the same kinds of activities. The kids liked simple card games where they would read a card, keep two, put back one, etc., but simple drill and practice became a bit boring after a while. Also, the sight word cards (which were exactly what the kids needed) should be lower case.


 * Sanford/1st grade--**


 * Braccio/1st grade-- It would be nice to have sight word practice included in burst. My students enjoyed playing many of the games, including Draw Two, Memory, Label It, and Word Potato. I understand this is a pilot, but it would be nice in the future to be provided with the game materials.**


 * Danner/Kdg--** The Burst is going well but a variety of games would be great for the students.


 * Nuñez/Kdg--**


 * Baños/1st grade--**

beneficial to have writing activities included in some of the games. **Frage/Kdg**---
 * Frage/Kdg**---The students look forward to our Burst time together.The games are great.However, I think it would be
 * Hartsfield/Kdg**-- During Burst 3 several activities were repeated within a single session. It would be nice to have different activities/games to complete during a session in order to maintain interest levels.