Please be sure to read at home with your child every night in whatever language you are comfortable with.
We will continue our We Are Readers Unit and Interactive Read Alouds will model and reinforce good reading habits, concepts of print, and academic vocabulary development.
Guided Reading groups will begin and your child will come home with books to read with you. Please be sure to practice reading those books with your child and then return them to school.
The paper books from Reading A-Z from our weekly Sight Word study can remain in your home. Practice reading and rereading those as well!
Use RazKids or Epic to find a digital library of age-appropriate books for your child to read at home! The links to both are below.
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.
