Strategies for Your Son/Daughter to Use When Reading

      There are many strategies we use as fluent readers, but students learning to read need help learning these strategies.  Students sometimes use one, two, or more of these strategies to help them decode an unknown word.  Keep in mind that each student develops at their own rate.  For example, a student who may not have all of their letter sounds down may have trouble tapping out a word, while a student who knows all their sounds might be able to 'look for chunks' in words or 'flip the vowel'.  It all depends on the student and the word they are trying to decode.  Here's a list of strategies we focus on to help us decode new words in Kindergarten...

You may find this as a small bookmark in your child's guided reading folder...

December 14, 2015 Newsletter

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Guided Reading Folders

      Guided Reading folders will begin coming home at least once, most often twice a week.  Please have your child read the stories to you.  Encourage them to put under the words and use strategies like looking at the picture or getting their mouth ready for the first sound in the word.  After reading, please write the titles read in the Guided Reading log and initial.  You may also write a comment on things like a strategy they used, if they had trouble with a word, if there was something they really liked, etc.  Please return the guided reading folder the next day.  There will also be sight word or letter cards in your child's Guided Reading folder.  Take a moment to review those as well.