Throughout the year, we have been learning many new strategies to help us become better readers!  Our favorite strategies can be found below!

These are the decoding strategies that we have been working on all year.  They help us figure out tricky words when we are reading!

Eagle Eye tells us to look at the pictures for clues

 

Lips the Fish tell us to get our mouth ready for the first sound

 

Stretchy Snake tells us to stretch out the word

 

Chunky Monkey tells us to look for "chunks" that we already know

 

Flippy Dolphin tells us to "flip" the vowel sound  

Skippy Frog tell us to skip the word, read to the end of the sentence and then "hop" back to it

  

Trying Lion tell us to keep trying!

 

Helpful Kangaroo tells us to ask for help after we've tried all the other strategies.