Reading Strategy

Reading is not only decoding the words, but it's understanding the texts by thinking and focusing on different strategies while reading.  During our lessons on reading, we are focusing on the strategy of making connections.  We are teaching your child to listen to texts during group lessons and to think about how different parts of the story remind them of an experience in their lives.  We call these text-to-self connections.  We are providing your child with opportunities to think about text-to-self connections and discuss them with their classmates.  We encourage your child to think about meaningful connections and explain which part in the story made them think about their connection.  As we continue to teach this strategy using read alouds, we will be giving your child independent texts to read on their own and to make meaningful text-to-self connections to their lives.  As seen in the attached picture, we would like your child to make connections to a part of the story, a character, a feeling, and/or a picture.  At home, please continue to ask your child to think about the text you may be reading to them during a read aloud or the borrowed book they bring home and to make text-to-self connections.  Your help at home will continue to extend their learning that happens at school and continue to develop your child into better readers!

Thank you!