As we continue to learn more and more ways to solve hard words - words with multisyllabic syllabes, variety of vowel teams, etc. students are also beginning to learn a variety of tricks to understand what they are reading. As text gets more difficult, our energy is often focused on the decoding and fluency, and sometimes, the understanding and comprehension gets left behind. We all know this is the basis of reading - the reason we read - and in first grade, students are learning ways to make sure this happens. Predicting, visualizing, making connections, inferencing, etc are just a few ways readers work hard to understand what they are reading. Our focus over the next few weeks in our whole group lessons will be to dig deeper into the text!
As we continue to learn more and more ways to solve hard words - words with multisyllabic syllabes, variety of vowel teams, etc. students are also beginning to learn a variety of tricks to understand what they are reading. As text gets more difficult, our energy is often focused on the decoding and fluency, and sometimes, the understanding and comprehension gets left behind. We all know this is the basis of reading - the reason we read - and in first grade, students are learning ways to make sure this happens. Predicting, visualizing, making connections, inferencing, etc are just a few ways readers work hard to understand what they are reading. Our focus over the next few weeks in our whole group lessons will be to dig deeper into the text!