Grade 1 Reading

Reading

WEEK 6 Monday 18/5- Friday 22/5

Please see below the reading strategy students are encouraged to work on when reading their right fit readers.

As you currently do, please read with your child everyday and encourage them to read to you.

Encourage children to ‘have a go’ at reading and praise them.
Talk about who the people are and what happens in the books you read together.
Encourage them to express opinions about what happens in the story.
Talk about the letters, sounds, words and interesting features in the things you read.

Remember you are encouraged to drop off your child's readers on a Friday and l can have them changed and ready for collection on a Monday.
If you are unable to drop off your child’s readers to get changed, there are number of other options for you.

Reading Eggs offers a library of online books. Great for providing a variety of Fiction and Non-Fiction options to your children.
You can read aloud to your child/ or share the reading with your child, if the text is too hard for them to read and get them to retell the story based on their understanding of what they heard..
Epic: This website is a digital library for kids offering unlimited access to 40000 of the best children's books. You can select books to read or have books read aloud to your child. https://www.getepic.com/
This is a phonics-based website that offers free pdf books focused on certain phonemic sounds. https://www.speld-sa.org.au/services/phonic-books.html

Our focus reading strategy this week is Visualising (refer to the ‘Parent Pipeline’ for information on this strategy). Specific books have not been assigned to these activities as each child reads at their own level and as such, they are best selecting their own right fit readers. I can however offer you some extra suggestions below if you have limited books at home.

Parents:

Please read the Parent Pipeline below to support your understanding of this important reading strategy.

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Star Criteria

I am asking that students self-assess (with their parents help at times if needed) how many stars they think they were working at for each lesson. They might like to draw these at the bottom of their work as a reminder for when they touch base with myself (e.g. if worked at one start, draw one star on their work).

WHAT IS VISUALISING?