Chace has been a pleasure to work with and has shown growth in the way that he is beginning to think differently on a deeper level and and becoming more purposeful in the way he reads and thinks about reading. I have enjoyed watching his confidence grow as a result of learning and manipulating these new strategies. Below are recommendations and future goals for both at home and at school, to support the progress Chace has made as a reader.
Home
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Read on a daily basis. If your child reads good books, he will become a better reader. Through reading, Chace will gain more exposure to different texts and can practice using his reading strategies at home.
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Have conversations around reading! Talk about books and discuss them with friends and family. Share opinions about books and support your thinking with evidence from the text.
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Practice sight words and high frequency words as much as possible. Keep a running list of words that he has mastered and can both read and spell independently to provide motivation. Make it a game and give him points when he sees the words in his books, uses these words in writing or conversation.
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Promoting education games. There are tons of educational games out there that are great for reading and decoding. Some great websites include:
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Promote any authentic reading experiences that may come up. For example, reading the newspaper, grocery lists, letters, websites, ect. This will connect reading to his real life experiences.
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School
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Continue using and building on strategies that will help with decoding and word attack skills
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Make thinking as visible as possible using post-its or technology like Google Docs
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Continue to use strategy prompt chart to remind him that good readers use multiple strategies when decoding an unknown word
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Choose books that are interesting to you to increase motivation to read
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Reread books more than once to take focus away from decoding and place attention on fluency and comprehension
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Continue rereading books with a purpose to learn new things about the story and characters
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Provide specific instruction and time for independent practice when introducing new strategies.
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Create a ‘cheat sheet’ listing strategies Chace has worked on, and add to the list and he continues to learn.
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Read on a daily basis to sustain the growth Chace has made as a reader.
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