Guided Reading

Home Reading Program Beginning in October, your child's teacher will provide leveled books for your child to read at home. This program is key to helping your child develop reading skills. Please help your child read and return his or her home reading book daily when possible. (The goal is to read and return a book at least four times each week.)

Decodable Readers

Decodable readers allow your child the blend the sounds they know into reading. Decodable books encourage children to look at the words rather than the pictures. Please help your child by having them point under each word and blend the sounds of unknown words to read them. We believe a reading combination of the guided reading books and decodable readers is important. Click on the links below for lots of decodable readers. These readers become more difficult as you move down the list.

CVC Decodable Readers

Digraph Decodable Readers

Guided Reading Lessons and Books

Listen to the pre-reading book talk. (If there isn't one, look through the pictures on your own and think about what the story will be about.)
Read the book. These are wonderful leveled reading books.. Unfortunately some of the books are not positioned correctly. To fix this, save the PDF to your computer and then rotate the text. Click on this link to see a how to video.
Listen to the post reading book talk. (If there isn't one, retell the story on your own. Use Sammy Summarizer's strategies to help you.)
Continue to reread the book to work on fluency. (This can be done many times over many days.)