Our Literacy Cafe has opened and we are currently working on the following reading strategies as a class:

COMPREHENSION– Stop and Check for Understanding when you read…if something does not make sense…use the Back Up and Reread Strategy or Retell the Story

ACCURACY– When you come to a word and get “stuck” …..use the Cross Checking Stratgey (Ask yourself does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?)

FLUENCY– I can read accurately, with expression and understand what I read. Use the strategies choose “Just Right” books at your level and use the punctuation to help you read and make meaning.

EXPAND VOCABULARY– use the strategy “Tune Into interesting Words” this is when you know, find and use interesting words. Please be sure they get copied onto your personal word collector sheet.

Here is a fun punctuation game we played in class today. Simply click on the link below.

  http://www.funenglishgames.com/grammargames/punctuation.html