- getting your mouth ready
- pointing to the words
- cross-checking
- skipping and returning
- flipping the sound
- reading through the word
- chunking
- noticing heart words
Although your child may be working on all these strategies simultaneously, some children are focusing on just one particular strategy. All children are working at reading varying levels of text, but we still go back to these main accuracy strategies to use when helping us decode. INQUIRE with your child what strategy they are working on in their reading. Can they help you read this poem? We continue to read a variety of winter poems as a class, reread them to work on fluency, notice rhymes and alliteration, and visualize what is happening while checking for understanding. We add one poem each week to our "winter poem" book and look forward to sharing these with you at "books at breakfast." More on this later...
This week, we sang a "so long, farewell" song to our high preference books from our book boxes. To become voracious readers who get better at reading, we learned that we need to be practicing our just right books more often- for longer periods of time. Our book boxes are now filled with only just right books and we all hope that by end of first grade, we can bring these books back in as just right readers! For now, we all look forward to enjoying these great reads at free choice time!
