Reading

Reading



__**Just Right Books **__ When Reading we need to make sure your book is '__JUST RIGHT__' for your reading ability.

Is your book a __'Just Right'__ book?


 * Do the __5 finger test__ to help you check if a book is just right. If you can't read, pronounce or know the meaning of 5 or more words on a page the book is not right YET.


 * __Visualize:__ can you make a picture in your head? If not, the book is not just right YET.

__**Reading Strategies **__ When reading consider some of the following reading strategies to help you with your reading and comprehension:


 * 1) Visualizing: Can you make a picture in your mind?
 * 2) Summarizing: What are the main events / information for this paragraph?
 * 3) Prediction / Prior Knowledge:
 * 4) Fat and Skinny Questions
 * 5) Strategies for new words: Re-reading, Reading on, small words in big words
 * 6) Expand your vocabulary: Learn new words and their meaning.
 * 7) Fluency and Expression: Following the punctuation on the page and adding in expression when you read aloud.

__**<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;">Classroom Library **__ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Some texts available in our classroom library include: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Horror
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Humour
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Adventure
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Girls
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Boys
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Favourite authors
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">picture story
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Australian authors
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Puzzles
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Magazines
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Cook Books
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Sport / hobbies
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Student published work / Class made texts
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Behaviour

<span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; text-align: center;">Click on the Library Pass to view our classroom library page: