I’m working on accuracy! My strategy is Use Beginning and Ending Sounds
Secret to Success
Often children will look at the beginning letter or letters and guess a word that may fit in the sentence without looking at the rest of the word. Children must slow down enough to look at and pay attention to the end of the word. Students must know letter sounds as well as the concept of beginning and end. It is helpful if they are also exposed to the Cross Checking strategy so they will be certain the word they are reading matches the letters.
What you can say or model
Look at words within text and focus children’s attention on the beginning and ending sounds. Repeating this process with kids over and over will raise their level of awareness, and slow them down so they pay careful attention to the beginning and ending sounds. Once children slow down to focus in on beginning and ending sounds, help them read the word correctly by coaching them to end their decoding with “Did that make sense?”
Language prompts we might use:
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)
Secret to Success
Often children will look at the beginning letter or letters and guess a word that may fit in the sentence without looking at the rest of the word. Children must slow down enough to look at and pay attention to the end of the word. Students must know letter sounds as well as the concept of beginning and end. It is helpful if they are also exposed to the Cross Checking strategy so they will be certain the word they are reading matches the letters.
What you can say or model
Look at words within text and focus children’s attention on the beginning and ending sounds. Repeating this process with kids over and over will raise their level of awareness, and slow them down so they pay careful attention to the beginning and ending sounds. Once children slow down to focus in on beginning and ending sounds, help them read the word correctly by coaching them to end their decoding with “Did that make sense?”
Language prompts we might use:
- “Did you look at the whole word?”
- “Did what you just read make sense?”
- “Remember to cross-check the word and be certain it matches what you are saying.”
Adapted from The Café Book by Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (2009)