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Reading

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What do good readers do?
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Hello students and parents.  We will be working with the Journeys reading program again this year.  Each lesson we will focus on a story and comprehension skill.  We will be working on a 6-day cycle for most lessons.
 
 
 
Journeys book cover
 
User Name: student ID number (it should begin with 224)
Password: your child's date of birth followed by vt (ie: xx/xx/2008vt)
 
Please note the password IS case sensitive!
 
 
Reading Strategies
  • Use context clues
  • Look for something you know ("chunks" like ch, sh, th, or small words)
  • Use picture clues
  • Reread the word
  • Skip a word, read on, and then go back
  • Ask yourself "Does it make sense?"
Comprehension
  • make connections (text-to-self, text-to-text, and text-to-world)
  • do a retelling
  • use visualization
  • make predictions and inferences
Fluency
  • read to make it sound like talking
  • pay attention to punctuation
  • read to show emotions (for example, if a word is in all CAPITALS, it should be read with feeling!)