How to Help Beginning Readers
Several strategies may be used when decoding unknown words. Below are just a few that you can use to help your beginning reader find success while reading. Click here for a copy of this FREEBIE!
1. Tell the child to look at the picture. You may tell the child that the word is something
that can be seen in the picture, if that's the case.
2. Tell the child to
look for chunks in the word, such as /it/ in sit, /at/ in mat, or /and/
and /ing/ in standing.
3. Ask the child to get his/her mouth ready to say the word by shaping the mouth for the for the
beginning letter. Then have them start making the sound of that letter as
they attempt to read the word.
4. Ask the child
to flip the sound. Example: flip from a long vowel sound to a
short sound , or flip c from the /k/ sound to the /s/ sound.
5. Read~Skip~Read. Ask the child to skip
the word and read to the end of the sentence. Often by reading the
other words in context, the child can figure out the unknown word.
6. If the child
says the wrong word while reading, have the child practice cross checking. (Does
it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?)
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