Home Reading
- Every Monday and Thursday your child will bring home 3 books to read to you. At the beginning of the year, the goal of the home reading program is to build confidence and success in the children as readers. The books may be a bit easy for some children at first, but more challenging books will be sent home in a couple of weeks. Please enjoy these books with your children, and remember that we become better readers by reading.
- Reading Strategies to Try With Difficult Words
- -look at the pictures for clues
- -look at the beginning of the word and make the first sound
- -look for little words in big words (sunflower)
- -look for parts of words you know (jumping)
- -sound it out
- -reread the sentence again and see if the word "pops" out
- -skip the word and read on. Go back. What word fits?
- -ask yourself: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?
- -ask someone