Reading out loud

We are learning to read out loud familiar poems. We are trying to read with fluency and expression. As we get more confident, we can pay attention to the author's punctuation to help our reading sound more interesting.

"I can sound out words I don't know when I read out loud. I can read loudly so everyone can hear" said Hadi.

Reading

I am learning to use all my strategies independently. I am able to read the book independently and I can find the main ideas in the text.

"I can read faster because I read carefully" said Hadi

Contractions

I am learning to recognise contractions. I know that contractions have apostrophes to replace missing letters.

" A contraction is two words joined together and one or two or three pop out and a mark is left to say that the letters are not there."  said Hadi

Retelling

I am learning to retell a story so that I can say what is happening in the story.

"I can go back and read it again when it doesn't sound right" said Hadi

Finding Root Words

 We are learning to identify a root word.

In Reading we have been looking for root words and discussing different word endings we find in the book.  By practising this we are able to decode unknown words more effectively.

"It's easy to read the books", said Hadi.

I am learning to complete word families

In Reading we have been learning how to complete a word family.  We know that all the words in a word family rhyme with each other.  We also know that they have the same letters at the end of the word.  Here is a screen shot of an ipad game we played about word families:

"It was easy to make the word Dad.  It was tricky to make the word glad."

We are learning to point to each word when we read

We are learning to point to each word when we read a story.  This is called one-to-one word matching and it helps us to focus on each word that we read.

"I look at the picture and the words."

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