This week, we are busy reading some brand new books! Our focus this week has been self-correcting to monitor our own understanding when reading. This means, if when we are reading a sentence or word doesn't make sense we "Go Back and Re-Read" (Ask your child about the song we sing!) By doing this we are able to comprehend the text better both on a literal and inferential level. We also continued working on our phonics by building words in word families. This week we have been working with and reviewing word families with the short vowel i, such as words that end with --it and -in. Please find the book links below to see what texts we have been working on. They will love reading these to you!
We are continuing to "move and groove" in our Go Blue class. The students were excited to introduce a new Decoding Strategy animal called Trying Lion. When we use Trying Lion, we try a word that we think makes sense and go back and re-read to see if the word is correct. When we use Trying Lion, we are working with our cuing system we use while reading. As readers we use meaning, syntax, and visual cues. This is one of our "trickier" decoding strategies, so we will continue to practice this skill throughout the year. We also continued adding to our short "i" word families when we introduced the -ip and -ill word family. Words like tin, fin, bin, and shin are all in the -in word family. We are also continuing to read new stories each week. Check out some of the books we worked on throughout the week.