Reading Corner

The "CAFE menu" includes the four basic components of successful reading: Comprehension, Accuracy, Fluency, and Expanded vocabulary. I have added skills and strategies under each.

Retell stories after you read or listen. Identify the setting, characters, problem, events, and solution. Click for printable version.

Decoding strategies beyond "sound it out".

Practice sight words
Learn and practice phonics/spelling patterns
Stretch and blend sounds in words
Play with rhyming words

Read smoothly
"Read" the punctuation: stop at periods, pause for commas...
Change voice and emotion for characters
Practice and read again

Be a voracious reader!
Read many kids of books
Use and notice cool words with kids!
Seek out new experiences

"Sight words" are words that should be memorized by young readers. They appear with high frequency in books and many of them are impossible to sound out because they break phonics rules. Frequent practice is they key to success!

sight word stories pdf.pdf

Lexia Core 5 Reading

(to be used on Chrome) The first time your child logs onto LexiaCore5 on their device, they will need to register using sr@kpbsd.org as the teacher email. From there, they can use their regular username and password they use at school, which is also the login for SpellingCity that was sent home.