Decoding Strategies

One of our big focuses in grade 3 so far has been on decoding strategies. Through a variety of activities over the past few weeks students have recalled decoding strategies that help them to sound out words when reading or writing. Students are being encouraged to use these strategies when reading unfamiliar words as well when writing independently. 

When students use decoding strategies, they are working to become more independent. The goal is to have students decode words without assistance. There are many strategies that we've learned in class that can help students decode words they are unfamiliar with. These strategies help us to make sense of what we read, while giving us confidence in our own abilities. These strategies also help us in our writing by guiding us to rely on learned strategies first before seeking assistance. Students are very familiar with these strategies and continue to use them each day. Ask your child how they use the strategies when reading our writing in class!

Our Raz Kids accounts are almost ready to go. This week some students had the opportunity to sign in and recall how to use the program to read books at their just-right level. Raz Kids is great as it provides students with an online library of books at the students just-right reading level.  Password information and parent-access will be sent home soon!