GOLDILOCKS PROJECT

Background:
Meital is my neighbor and I have been teaching her to read for one month now. She has a wide lexical gap and is a weak reader because she changed schools last year and feels lost in English. She had lost confidence in her abilities in English class and felt very critical of herself. We have begun to strengthen her reading and I thought that learning words through a story and then tying it to music would motivate her to learn and help her self-esteem. Also, I was surprised to discover that Meital possesses a beautiful voice and is musically talented. In the end, after we sang, she requested that I teach her more stories and songs. I think I may have found the key to getting her to read and listen—through her love of music!

First Meeting:
I introduced Meital to the basic words in the story and to the context:
Worksheet 1:
-Introduced her to the words with pictures and emphasized the sound (s) of the initial consonant in each word (such as /b/, /h/, /g/, and the digraph sound /ch/)
-Then I pronounced each word and had the pupil repeat after me
-Finally, I had the pupil write the words in the correct spelling
Worksheet 2:
-We spoke about the story which Meital is familiar with in Hebrew.
-I taught her the names of the rooms in the Bear's house. I pointed out to her that 3 of the 4 rooms actually have the word ROOM and told her in Hebrew. )חדר(
-I told her to number only those rooms where Goldilocks visited and in the order of the story.