Strategies
Reading Goal:
Can you use the strategy on your reading goal?
Decoding Strategies:
Eagle Eye
Chunky Monkey
-Look at the picture
-Look for word chunk
for clues
-Look for a word part
Lips the Fish
Skippy Frog
-Say first sounds
-Skip the word
-Get your mouth ready!
-Read to the end
-Hop back & read it
Stretchy Snake
Tryin’ Lion
-Stretch it out by
-Try to reread
tapping out each sound
-Try a new word
and putting them
together
Fundations Sound
Helpful Kangaroo
-Is there a fundations
-Ask for help after
sound you recognize?
you have tried the
(vowels, glued sounds,
other strategies
digraphs, suffixes)
Comprehension Strategies
Clarify- What words were confusing? How
Predict- What do you think will happen?
did you figure them out?
Connect- What does the text remind you of?
Visualize- Can you make a movie in your
Text-to-Self
Text-to-Text
Text-to-world
mind for a part in the story?
Ask Questions- What could you ask the author
Summarize/Retell-
or characters?
(F)Tell what happened in the story in order.
Who? What? Where? When? Why? How
(NF) What were the most important facts?
Infer- Can you tell how the characters are
React- How do you feel about what
feeling?
happened in the story? Did you like or dislike
Use what you know!
the text?