Reading

 

 

There are many reading strategies that adults use when reading. Most of the time we are not really aware that we are using strategies to assist us in our decoding of words and to understand what we are reading. Beginner readers need to be taught these strategies. These are taught in baby steps and the children are offered many opportunities to practise these strategies, since they are just beginning to read. Two of the strategies that are being reinforced are: looking at the beginning sound (to make sure what they say makes sense) and look at the picture. Looking at the picture cues, the pictures are in many of the books for young children in order to assist them with their decoding and their understanding of what is happening in the story.

This week we will be working with the book "The Mitten". We will be reading a variety of different variations of the story by different authors. We will be talking about what is the same in the stories and what is different. Also, this book leads itself nicely into drama experiences for the children. Where they will be able to act out the story using various props.

 

The "By Heart Words" for this week are: he and she. Practising these words is very beneficial to the children's reading and writing. Many of these word must be memorized because sounding them out does not always work. Also, these are the most frequent words the children come across in their reading and their writing.

 

The Jolly Phonics sound for this week is "v". I want the children to realize that there are some words where the "v" is at the beginning and some where it is at the end.  Some of the words are:  van, vest, visit, vet, very, drive, vine, glove, love.