This week, we've launched our last daily 5 choice, Word Work. Working with words helps children become better spellers and writers. Your child will learn about word families, chunks and blends as well as endings, practice high frequency ‘sight’ words using play dough, stamps, tiles, wikki sticks, letter trays, beans, gel boards and whiteboards, and work on spelling. Working on words has been very engaging and fun this week! INQUIRE with your child what their favorite tool for word work is!
This week, we've started talking about a range of strategies that help us work on Accuracy and Comprehension. To help your child become a better decoder of words, we've practiced using both beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words and blending the sounds together to read the word. We've also reviewed what it looks like to use the pictures when stuck on a word.
We've also practiced what it looks like to monitor and fix up our reading to help us better understand a story. Good readers often stop to think about if what they are reading makes sense. They make sure they understand what is happening in the story or what the selection they are reading is about. If meaning breaks down during a story, good readers have strategies to go back and fix the problem. This week, our students are learning how to go back and adjust the rate of their reading and then summarizing the text.
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