Reading Tips
Follow the Fab 4 when you read
Predict - Use clues for the text or illustrations to predict what will happen next I think... because...
Question - ask questions as you read. Some are answered in the book
Who? What? Where? Why? How? When? or I wonder.. Clarify - how can you figure out trick or hard words and ideas?
Reread Read on Sound out ask if it makes sense
Summarize - Using your won words, tell the main ideas from the text This text is about.... First, Next, Then, Finally
When decoding new words: Read Nightly
spot the vowel Discuss books with family and friends
name the pattern Read different genres
tap it out
Math Tips
Students remember best when frequent practice of skills occurs
Skills learned in First Grade:
counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's base ten measurement and data geometry problem solving
addition/subtraction facts to 20 telling time hour/half hour number recognition to 120 and greater/less than
