Check out the Different Components of Literacy we are work on

Beanie Baby Strategies

*Use these strategies if your child is stuck on a word!

Lips the Fish

• Get your lips ready!

Stretchy Snake

• Stretch out the letter sounds!

Chunky Monkey

• Chunk the word to find smaller words.

Skippy Frog

• Skip the word and come back to it after reading the other words around it.

Eagle Eye

• Look at the picture clues for help.

Flippy Dolphin

• Flip between short and long vowel sounds to see which sounds right.

Rhyming Lion

• Use a word that rhymes and follows the spelling pattern.

Helpful Kangaroo

• If you’ve tried all of the other beanie friends, ask someone to help you!

Fundations

Fundations, a Wilson program, makes learning to read fun while laying the groundwork for life-long literacy. This is a goal for all students in the Springfield School District. Students in grades K-3 receive a systematic program in critical foundational skills emphasizing:

• Phonemic awareness
• Phonics / word study
• High frequency word study
• Reading fluency
• Vocabulary
• Comprehension strategies
• Handwriting
• Spelling

Small Group Guided Reading

Small group instruction will include:

• Decoding / phonics
• Vocabulary
• Fluency
• Phonemic Awareness
• Comprehension
• Sight words

Small group instruction will include instruction in reading comprehension strategies:

• Making connections
• Visualizing
• Making Inferences
• Synthesizing
• Predicting
• Monitoring Understanding
• Questioning