Reading at school and at home
We are also learning about reading comprehension strategies during our read aloud, in guided reading and when we do independent or partner reading. You can use these strategies when reading with your child at home:
1. "Eagle Eye" (using picture clues to figure out the words)
2. "Stretchy Snake" (stretching out the letter sounds in a word)
3. "Chunky Monkey" (finding smaller words or chunks that we know inside bigger words)
4. "Lips the Fish" (get your mouth ready; say the first sound of the word out loud)
5. "Skippy Frog" (skip the word, read to the end of the sentence, hop back to read it)
6. "Trying Lion" (try to reread the sentence, try a word that makes sense)
These reading strategies help the children decode (read) printed material such as fiction and non-fiction books, charts, magazines, posters and signs. Remember to remind your child to finger point to each word while reading to help keep their spot and improve fluency.
1. "Eagle Eye" (using picture clues to figure out the words)
2. "Stretchy Snake" (stretching out the letter sounds in a word)
3. "Chunky Monkey" (finding smaller words or chunks that we know inside bigger words)
4. "Lips the Fish" (get your mouth ready; say the first sound of the word out loud)
5. "Skippy Frog" (skip the word, read to the end of the sentence, hop back to read it)
6. "Trying Lion" (try to reread the sentence, try a word that makes sense)
These reading strategies help the children decode (read) printed material such as fiction and non-fiction books, charts, magazines, posters and signs. Remember to remind your child to finger point to each word while reading to help keep their spot and improve fluency.
Writing
With winter here, we have been working on writing about how we get ready for outside play. We are exploring how to write procedures. We are learning to use ordinal numbers and pictures to help communicate our messages.
We are learning to recount small moments and are beginning to draw and write about these events.
This week we were writing stories about DINOSAURS!
We are learning to recount small moments and are beginning to draw and write about these events.
This week we were writing stories about DINOSAURS!