Reading skills and strategies

Colors and Kindergarten: Reading Skills This is a visual for how students work their way up the Reading Ladder. Kindergarten is working within the levels 1 and 2 throughout the year. When working with your child, please focus on these skills so that they have a solid reading foundation. Success is earned and needs to be worked for.

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This resource is a Guided Reading Skills Chart. It focuses on skills you can and should be teaching during guided reading:- Print concepts- Decoding- Comprehension- FluencyFor each skill, there is a chart that provides strategies with explanations to ensure you are implementing successfully.

As much as I love to read, sometimes I dreaded teaching reading. I was reading by four and everything in language arts came easily to me – it just clicked. When I had students that didn’t improve their reading with my strategies, I didn’t understand why. Now that I am working with my son, I […]

How do you infuse the teaching of reading skills and strategies? If you use a basal reading series, you most likely focus on one skill and strategy for a 1-2 week period. Even if you don't use a basal and find your own texts to use, it's a great practice to focus on re-teaching and reviewing comprehension skills and strategies. They're all so interrelated anyway. When I teach reading skills and strategies, I like to display a poster on our class focus wall. This lets anyone who walks in the…

A visual illustration of the hierarchy of skills required in children's reading skills

Reading strategies useful in every content area include Questioning the text, Visualization, and using Context Clues to infer meaning.

We all know how important reading strategies are to becoming successful readers. My students struggle with many of the strategies. We would focus on one each week, and by the 3rd week, they couldn't remember the first strategy. I created this poster to post in the classroom as a reminder of the strategies. Now, this is not a "post it and ignore it" type of thing. I used it as I taught each strategy and I would refer back to it daily, until it became ingrained in their heads! I printed the…

The Big 5 reading skills are the perfect guide for how to teach reading. Follow this reading skills list and use these strategies for reading instruction...