Reading workshops!!!!

One of the strategies we have been working on is pulling out an unknown word, writing it down and then decode it in isolation and placing it back into the sentence.

To work out an unknown word our tamariki will spend time asking themselves some of these questions and taking these steps:

1. Look at the first letter(s) of the word. Say the first sound(s)
2. If the word is -------------, what would you expect to see at the beginning/middle/end of the word?
3. Spell/write the word out loud. Look at each letter
4. We've seen that word before in this book. Let's find it on the other page.
5. Do you see a part of the word (word chunk) that you already know?
6. Let's cover up part of the word and read the part we see (for example, if the word is jumping, cover up the -ing)
7. Sound it out.
8. Do you see a prefix in the word that you know?
9. Do you see a suffix in the word that you know?
10. Can you break the word into syllables?
11. What syllable type can you see?

We enjoy working together to decode new words in our texts.