Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program

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Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program

Description:

This innovative cross-age reading program pairs kindergarten students with 4th or 5th graders to improve their vocabulary and foster a love of books and reading. Buddies meet over eight, 45-minute sessions to watch a short, Martha Speaks episode that introduces 4 new vocabulary words. Buddies then read and discuss a related picture book that highlights the same vocabulary words or theme, play a game or activity using the new words, and write in a journal, reinforcing the new vocabulary. Students support each other and gain rich and varied instructional experiences with words, all while improving their vocabulary!

Education Levels:

Kindergarten

Subject:

Vocabulary, Listening Comprehension, Writing (composition), Language Arts, Reading, Reading Aloud

Resource Type:

Unit of instruction

Fee Status:

Free

Beneficiary:

Economically disadvantaged students, Urban students, Bilingual students, At-risk students, Rural students, English as a second language (ESL) students, Limited English proficiency (LEP) students, Culturally diverse classroom

Online provider:

PBSKIDS

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Keywords:

Early childhood education, Literacy, Martha Speaks, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Martha, Fluency, Social skills, Self-esteem, Community, Cross Age, Peer instruction, PBS, Read Aloud, Buddy, Writing, Reading Buddies

Mediator:

Student teachers, Teachers, Curriculum supervisors, Elementary school teachers

Publisher:

WGBH

Contributor:

Elly Schottman

Is Part Of:

http://pbskids.org/martha/parentsteachers/

Language:

English

Audience

Age:

Subjects/Topics

P21 Subject:

Learning Tools, Language Arts, English, Interpersonal and Self Directional Skills

Learning Outcomes:

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

11. Students participate as knowledgeable, reflective, creative, and critical members of a variety of literacy communities.

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

12. Students use spoken, written, and visual language to accomplish their own purposes (e.g., for learning, enjoyment, persuasion, and the exchange of information).

Conforms To

NCTE-IRA Standards for the English Language Arts (1996)

3. Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).

This data provided by the Achievement Standards Network