Reading at Home

Grade Two students are expected to complete a Home Reading Log  each week. Please record the times and the books you have been reading on the chart provided for you in the Homework duo-tang  Reading aloud in encouraged.  Reading is like any other skill, it is improved with practice.  Listed below are some suggestions for reading:

Self-correction Strategies

• Break large words into smaller words
• Sound out words using phonic knowledge
• Practice sight words
• Look at pictures for clues
• Try to think of rhymes or similar words
• Read ahead, then go back and make a guess
• Reread to make sure your guess makes sense
• Sweep with your finger to track the words only on difficult sections
• Use a book mark underneath the sentences to help you keep track of your reading
• Try! Be a risk-taker
• Ask a friend or family member for help

Helpful Hints

• Is this book to hard?  If there are more than five words on the first page which you are having difficulty with, then the book is too hard and you should choose another.
• Try to read smoothly and use expression. 
• Punctuation.....Read the periods, commas, and question marks.
• Reading to your child is very important. Children who have been read to a lot, often have very good expression. Expression is modeled from the experience of hearing oral reading.

Comprehension

• Make connections...."What does the text remind you of?"
• Create pictures in your mind
• Look for hints the author has left out.... "Read between the lines." 
• Ask questions about what you read
• Ask...."What am I trying to find out?"
• Think of new ideas... What do you already know?  How does what you read, fit with what you already know?
• Can you predict what the text will be about, or what will happen next?

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