We’ve spent a lot of time this week learning strategies to help us when we come to “tricky words” in our reading. We’ve also spent quite a bit of time working on reading in partners. We’ve put in a lot of work to make sure our time with our partners is productive. The students have been using post-its during reading to “stop and jot” to help them retell and reinforce their comprehension as well as to track “tricky words.” We’ve practiced many strategies including using pictures to help us, searching for words within a word, reading the word part-by-part, cover up the word and guess a word that would make sense, and more.
We’ve also spent time focusing on vowel teams and the endings of words such as -ing or -ed.
Vowel teams are words that have ea, ee, oo, ou, and so on, which often fall in the middle of a word. Even though these words use the same letters, they don’t always make the same sound. We’ve practiced these sounds to figure out which sound would fit different words best.
For example:
ea- head vs beach
ee- feet vs been
oo- boot vs book
ou- shout vs should
I encourage you to have your child share any vowel teams, endings, or tricky words they discover while reading!
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