Decoding and comprehension strategies
Ollie Owl- Look at the pictures
- Look at the pictures to guess what a word might be?
- Do you already know any sounds in the words?
- Say the first few sounds in the word out loud. Is there a picture of something that starts with the sounds?
- Eg. Camera – Ca Me Ra..
Chunky Monkey : Chunk the word
- Look for a chunk that you know (-ing, -and , art, tion, sion, ture, ght, ly, ter, ful, etc)
- Look for a word part beer be-er something like this, break in two alphabet or three, water wa + ter E.g Animal = Ani + mal
- Example: The chunky monkey helped me break up the word into 3 small parts, then I knew it was yes-ter-day.”
- Like Albertine =Al +ber+ tine
- Like Night= Ni +ght, Right =Ri +ght, Sight= Si+ght
Sammy Snake: S-t-r-e-t-c-h it out
- Stretch out each sound in the word.
- Can you see any blends in the word you know? E.g rather than t-h-i-s do th-is
- Example: I used Sammy the snake to sound out the word and I knew it in the picture,
- Summarise & Synthesize
Frankie Fish: Get your lips ready
- Get your lips and tongue ready to say the sound.
- Sound out the first letter and blend in the word.
- Put all sounds together to figure out the word.
- Example Frankie Fish helped me to know the word started with ‘ch’ so I knew it was chocolate
1.
B EE P= B + E+ P
2.
SLEEP= SL +E +P
1.
LOOK= L +Oie+ K
2.
TOOK= T+ Oie +K
3.
CATCH= CA + TCH
Comprehension- Reading for meaning
Repair Bear- Monitor and Fix up
Fergus Frog: Re-Read
Activate and Connect
Con the connector
Val the visualiser
Ask Questions-
Queenie the questioner
Predicting
Private eye the Predictor
Infer Meaning
Iggy the Inference Iguana
- Draw conclusions
Jabber the re-teller Technique :
After reading a text or book, discuss what happened at the beginning, middle and end.
- Ask questions related to the story-WHO, WHAT, WHEN, HOW,WHERE,WHY questions are good starting points.
- Ask the child to retell the story in their own words.
Determine the Importance:
Digger the Determining Dog-
Dig for and determine the MOST important ideas.
- Dig for information that tells you the author’s message.
- Dig and determine the facts
- Recording the main ideas and supporting details.
- Ask questions like: What is important here? What matters most?
E.g
Water is life
Stealing is bad.
Frilly Features
Discovering the Features of a text
- Is the book fiction or nonfiction? How do you know?
- Is there a content page?
- Whay are there captions on pictures?
- Look for various features in the textE.g Speech Bubbles, captions, diagrams , contents, glossary etc.
