recounts about the 'dingo who wanted to cook a wombat in his stew.' They are beginning to understand that using descriptive words and their imagination counts when writing creative stories. In reading we are regularly reviewing long vowels, sight words,and playing word games to reinforce language and reading skills. We are beginning to explore blends but blends can be tricky for some children; 'l' blends have 2 sounds blended together; cl, bl, gl, pl, fl, and sl. Please make sure you sign the reading logs each week. I am able to change books rapidly when the books children have read are listed. To help you, the children can also write the titles of the books on the log themselves. Don't forget to write comments, if need be, to let me know the level of ease or difficulty the children are experiencing when reading. Books can be read over again multiple times. This helps the children gain fluency when reading and use strategies over again when encountering unknown words. When your child is reading check for comprehension of text by asking questions which will require thought and dicussions about the story.
