Strategies for Reading Workshop

This upcoming week we will start looking at strategies we can use to help us become better readers. We will start with the strategy "Look at the Pictures". Using pictures in books can help you figure out a word or the meaning of the story. Some great books to help us with this strategy our our leveled books in the classroom and Fly Guy! books by Tedd Arnold! They love these books so it'll be a fun way to incorporate a favorite character and story line into our strategy and learning! They also have chapters (even though they aren't really chapter books-and the kids love that! For early readers, it gives them some confidence! Don't forget to keep reading at home! We are working on reading in the classroom and recording our min. We are reading around 13 minutes right now!! We record our minutes on a tracker online (for Pizza Hut). We have a class time goal of 3,500 minutes (which I KNOW they'll reach by the end of October!) If they reach it, I'll be sending home a coupon for a free personal pan pizza from Pizza Hut! After November I'll be using their minutes from their logs to track and earn their pizza! Thanks for all your support reading with them at home!

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