Thank you!!
Thanks
to all of you who have already sent in your student’s picture with their
favorite stuffed animal! We are currently adding them to a Photostory project
they are working on in computer lab. Please continue to email them or send them
in! We’d like to finish by Friday the 10.
Valentines Day
Our
party is February 14 at 2:30. I will be needing volunteers to help with handing
out goodies and opening all the valentines. Let me know if you can come in and
help that afternoon. The money you donated to the class party fund will supply
all the goodies for the party.
Reading Help at Home
Accuracy Help:
One
of the skills we teach in reading is using “chunking”. This is a more
successful strategy than letter by letter decoding. To help your student
“chunk” words, have them find small bits of the word that they know like re,
bl, sh, ch, pl pr, as examples. Have them read the first chunk then the next
and so on. For example the word discover becomes dis-cov-er, then read the word
again saying it correctly. Another “chunking” trick has to do with word
endings. If your student is having difficulty with a word with an ending (-s,
-es, -ing, -ed, -ly etc.), have them cover up the ending and see if they know
the word without it. If not then begin “chunking “the word.
Fluency Help:
Model
fluent reading for your student. Pick a page in a book and read to your student
modeling good reading. Then have your student read it like you did.
Comprehension Help:
When
finished with a book, have your student retell the story or ask if the book
reminds them of anything. Also ask simple questions that the answer can be
found in the book.
