Please be sure to read at home with your child every night in whatever language you are comfortable with.
We are winding down in our We Are Reader's Unit. We have learned all the foundational reading skills that we will build upon as we grow as readers! See the images below to know more about each skill we've learned or will learn by the end of this unit. Each colored post-it note is a different lesson from the unit. You can use these at home to support your child's literacy!
Continue to read your books from the library, the sight word readers, and the guided reading books as well as the books your child borrows from the classroom library!
Some strategies to try at home when you are reading with your child:
Fiction - Retell the story in sequence- beginning, middle, and end. Include characters, setting, problem, and solution.
Non-Fiction - Discuss what you learned from the text. Look at pictures, labeled diagrams, maps, bold words, captions, table of contents, and/or the glossary.
- Use a Reader Finger - Point to words and pictures with your finger.
- Read from left to right.
- Use picture clues.
- Make a picture in your head.
- Make predictions about what will happen next.
- Identify letters and sight words you know.
- Find a little word or chunks of letters to make a sound in your bigger words.
- Blend the sounds to figure out an unknown word.
- Get your mouth ready to make the first sound.
- Read it again.
- Find sentence patterns.
- Look at punctuation marks.
