Reading Strategies

This week one of our learning goals was to recall some previous reading strategies that we could remember from Grade 2. We remembered a few different strategies to help us decode unfamiliar words. We have great memories! These strategies are very helpful to us as we work to sound out, stretch out or decode unfamiliar words when we read. Students are encouraged to use these strategies to help them sound out words when reading and writing. Ask your child about the strategies that they can recall and how to use them!

We are practicing these strategies when we read a book together as a class. We are also using the strategies when we read to ourselves each morning when we start school. Additionally, students played a making words game. Our reading strategies really came in handy when playing this game. Students had to determine what words they could make from a list of letters (a e e c l r s). Students used the reading strategies to help them decode the letter sounds and create a number of words. Have a look at our list. I wonder if there are any other words you can come up with that we may have missed?