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on the all-important comprehension strategy of ‘Check for Understanding. ’ Your children are learning that readers stop often to go back and remember what they read by doing a quick re-tell before reading on. When you are reading with your child, stop every page or so and model “Checking for Understanding. ” That means you talk out loud about what you just read. We also use the prompts of WHO and WHAT when we Check for Understanding. Example, “ I just read that Lily (who) loved school and her shiny new pencils. (what). || “ Cross Checking.” Cross-checking is when students look at the picture, look at the letters in the word and cross check to see that they match and sound right as well as make sense. For example, if a page had a picture of a peacock and instead I read ‘bird’. I would show the class that when we cross check, the picture started with a letter P for peacock, but I read bird instead. That couldn’t work because bird starts with the letter B. So I had to go back and reread it to make the correction that looked right, sounded right and made sense. || The amount a child reads has a huge impact on their success in becoming a fluent reader. The strategy of voracious reading is one used with students to increase vocabulary and fluency. Students are taught that voracious means to do a lot of something and still want more of it. They know that by reading, reading, and more reading, they will become smooth readers that are enjoyable to listen to. This will lead to increased comprehension and broadened vocabularies. || We are working on **Expanding** with the strategy of Tune into Interesting Words. As you read to your children, stop and talk about interesting words you read. aloud. || __** comprehension **__ http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/2nd-comprehension.html http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/la-read.html __ **Games** __ http://www.gamequarium.com/readquarium/
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