Reading
Thank you for reading with your child as
much as you can! Our students love reading and are getting better and better but
it really helps them to have an adult listen and talk about what they are
reading. In our Guided Reading lessons, we talk about the events in the book,
what they mean to us and if we can relate to the characters and their
situations. Talk about the illustrations/pictures and read out loud with funny
voices for the different characters!
Reading is fun and essential to your child's learning... better readers make
better writers and spellers!
Here
are some fun games to support our reading skills:
Word Frog
Spelling Bees
Synonyms
There
will be more coming soon!
Dictionaries
Introduction
A dictionary is a list of words or phrases and their
meanings (definitions) arranged in alphabetical order.
This section includes:
Finding information in a dictionary
All dictionaries arrange their information alphabetically. Each
piece of information is called an entry.
For example, in an English dictionary you’ll find words
beginning with a at the front, and z at the back. Because there are lots
of words beginning with a each
letter that follows decides which word comes first. For example, ant will come after ankle because the
first two letters are the same but
the third letter is different, and t
comes after k in the alphabet.
To find the word sunny start by finding words beginning with s, then su, then sun until you
eventually narrow it down to sunny.
Thesauruses
If you look up a word in a thesaurus you will be given a list of
similar words that may be more suitable for what you are trying to say.
Happy
cheerful, content, thrilled, jumping for joy
Use a thesaurus to make your writing more interesting and less
repetitive. Avoid using the same word over and over again.