Activity 3: Guided Reading Skills

Ready to practice learning your reading strategies?

Watch YouTube videos:

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Your turn to practice:

1. Review the Alphabet Chart. Say each letter name, the letter sound and the picture name.

 2. Read the 5 Steps of Reading! You will need a book to practice.

1st step- Have student put up their pointer finger. Teacher explains that this is their “magic” point finger and it is used to point to the words. This is important, because when you point to the words the information goes all the ways up your arm, up your neck, up to your head and into your brain! The other hand is to hold your book still so you can point to the words.

Let’s practice. Your turn! Put your “magic” finger on the first word on the title.

Let’s practice again. Turn to the first page and put your “magic” finger on the first word in the sentence. Where should your other hand be? Student will have hand holding the other side of the book down.

2^nd step- Read the title of the story 3 times as you point to each word using your “magic finger”.

Let’s practice again. Put your “magic” finger on the first word on the title.

Point to each word as you read using your “magic” finger. Read title with an adult, then student reads title. Then the adult and student read title together 2 more times.

3^rd step- Read each sentence 3 times as you point to each word using your “magic” finger. Teacher models how this should look.

Let’s practice again. Students turn to the first page and put your “magic” finger on the first word in the sentence. Where should your other hand be? Student will have hand holding the other side of the book down. Adult and student read together, adult and student read the second time and the third time the student reads the page.

4^th step- Find the high frequency words (sight words) on each page. Teacher models this step by reading the page. Then she would I need to find the word, have. The teacher would model finding the word, have.

Let’s practice. Student would read the page of the book using their “magic” finger. After practicing reading the page, the adult will tell the student to find the sight words or words on the page. Student will point to words the teacher says.

5^th step- The last step is to review 3 questions:

What starts at the beginning of each sentence?

What goes at the end of the sentence?

What goes between each word?

The adult models by looking at a page in the book. What starts at the beginning of each sentence? The students will help the teacher say a capital letter.

The adult  will model, what goes at the end of the sentence? The students will help the teacher say a punctuation mark (period, exclamation point or question mark).

The adult models by looking at the sentence, what goes between each word?    The students will help the adult say, a space. The adult then explains that a space is important because it separates each word so it makes it easier to read.       

Then read the whole book practicing these 5 reading strategies.

The following image can be used as a guide:

Activity:

Adult will show student the “Sound out the word!” image. Teacher will model how to sound out a word. Then the student will practice how to sound out a word.

 

The student will practice this skill by reading a book with the teacher and sounding out each letter in every word together. Students will continue to practice the 5 steps to reading.

Technology:

There are lots of apps for your phone/IPad, that help your student to learn the letter names and sounds.

Here are a few that I recommend:

Kids Learn to Read Lite

Hooked on Phonics

NOTE: If this app does not work with your phone/tablet/IPad go to Play Store to see what is available for your device.

Activity 2: Sight Word Strategies

Ready to practice learning your sight words or high frequency words?

Watch YouTube video: 

Your turn to practice:

1. Read each strategy listed below.

Strategy 1:

1^st Say the sight word

2^nd Say each letter of the word

3^rd Repeat sight word again

Example: the + t-h-e + the

The students will practice this strategy using 3 different words.

Strategy 2:

1^st Say the sight word

2^nd Say each letter as you clap

3^rd Repeat sight work again

Example: can + c-a-n + can

The student will practice the strategy using three different words.

Strategy 3:

1^st Say the sight word

2^nd Say each letter as you clap

3^rd Repeat sight work again

Example: can + c-a-n + can

2. Practice using the following  high frequency words:

the

like

is

you

my

Here is am image that will help you too.

Game/Activity:  Treasure Hunt

Find high frequency or sight words in your house or classroom. Look in books and on the walls to help you!

Find as many as you can and write them down!

Good luck and Happy Word Hunting!!!

To make this game more challenging, you can time the treasure hunt! The next time they play it will be their job to be the previous score.

Technology:

There are lots of apps for your phone/IPad, that help your student to learn the letter names and sounds.

Here are a few that I recommend:

Kids Sight Words Lite

Abby Sight Words Games & Flash Cards vol 1: Kids Learn to Read – Learning Reading Adventure

NOTE: If this app does not work with your phone/tablet/IPad go to Play Store to see what is available for your device.

Activity 1: Learning Letters and Sounds

Ready to practice learning your capital and lowercase letters and sounds?

Watch YouTube video:

Your turn to practice:

1. Say the letter name

2. Say the letter sound

3. Name the picture.

Game/Activity:

You are going to play the Alphabet Game! Click on the link to print the Alphabet Linking Chart and Alphabet Picture Words.

The Alphabet Linking Chart is the game board.  You will only need to cut out the pictures into squares.

Once pictures are cut into squares, have the learner place the pictures on the correct beginning letter sound. When they put the picture on the letter have then say the letter name and the beginning sound.

To challenge your learner, you can time them to see how many they get in 3 minutes, 2 minutes, or 1 minute. This helps them to get faster and they become more confident as they learn the letters and sounds.

Technology:

There are lots of apps for your phone/IPad, that help your student to learn the letter names and sounds.

Here are a few that I recommend:

Kids ABC Letters Special

Kids ABC Letters Tiny

NOTE: If this app does not work with your phone/tablet/IPad go to Play Store to see what is available for your device.