Mrs. Wakefield's First Grade Class

Practice with synonyms:

http://pbskids.org/lions/games/synsam.html

Reading with focus on phonetic instruction of short and long vowels sounds.

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm?f

Stories for decoding and oral fluency.

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/index/load.htm?f

Try these games to practice the phonic pattern (long i) and the word wall words.

http://www.quia.com/jg/1087558.html

http://www.starfall.com/n/make-a-word/long-i/load.htm?f

Choose from 10 different Grade 1 games or select a more challenging game from a higher grade level.

www.sadlier-oxford.com/phonics/student.cfm

Review beginning sounds, short vowels, and long vowels in this game.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/picturematch/

Have fun creating words using word families.

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/wordmaker

STRATEGIES TO BECOME A BETTER READER

Here are important reading strategies students can use before, during and after reading:

Before Reading

Predict what the book is about from the title.  Set a purpose for reading.  Ex.  I am going to read this book because I want to learn more about animals. Take a picture walk through the book.  Ask, What is happening in the pictures?

During Reading

Visualize - make a movie in your head just like you do when listening to a story.
 

Question - think about the story, asking yourself who, what, when, where, why, how.
 

Clarify - understand new words - figure out words using print strategies

• Use finger to point under each word to keep track of where you are reading
• Use beginning sounds to figure out words
• Use ending sounds to figure out words
• Use pictures on the page to help figure out a word
• Use word chunks (group of letters in a pattern like _ack, _ight)
• Look for a smaller word within the word
• Read to the end of the sentence.  Sometimes the word that
  makes sense pops right up!

• Reread the sentence or passage to increase understanding

Make predictions - "What happens next?"
 

Make connections

• What other story is like this one? (Text to Text Connection)

• Have you felt the same away as a character in the story?  Did something similar happen to you? (Text to Self Connection)

• Does it help you think about something in real life not directly connected to you?  (Text to World Connection)

After Reading

React - What did you think of the story?

• How did it make you feel?
   

Summarize - What was most important in the story?  One way to do this is to this is think: