Word-attack skills involve various strategies that students can use to decode unfamiliar or multisyllabic words. This goal focuses on equipping first-grade students with a toolkit of word-attack strategies. Students learn to use context clues, break words into syllables, recognize word patterns, and apply other strategies to decipher challenging words accurately. Developing these skills empowers students to tackle unfamiliar words with confidence, enhancing their overall reading accuracy and comprehension.
Goals for Word Attack Skills
Goal 1: Use context clues to predict unfamiliar words.
Goal 2: Break multisyllabic words into smaller chunks (syllables) for decoding.
Goal 3: Apply knowledge of letter-sound patterns to decode unknown words.
Goal 4: Utilize word families and analogies to identify new words.
Goal 5: Develop a bank of strategies to cross-check and self-correct while reading.
Read Aloud Book List:
"The Cat on the Mat is Flat" by Andy Griffiths
"The Berenstain Bears and the Spooky Old Tree" by Stan and Jan Berenstain
"Fancy Nancy and the Posh Puppy" by Jane O'Connor
"Fox in Socks" by Dr. Seuss
"Diary of a Worm" by Doreen Cronin
"There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" by Simms Taback
"Miss Nelson Is Missing!" by Harry Allard
"The Magic School Bus" series by Joanna Cole
"The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch
"The Little Red Hen" (various versions)
"The Velveteen Rabbit" by Margery Williams
"The Magic Tree House" series by Mary Pope Osborne
"The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein
"Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day" by Judith Viorst
"The Paper Bag Princess" by Robert Munsch
"How I Became a Pirate" by Melinda Long
"Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!" by Mo Willems
"Harry the Dirty Dog" by Gene Zion
"The Day the Crayons Came Home" by Drew Daywalt
"Snowflake Bentley" by Jacqueline Briggs Martin