Parents, you'll have the night off from reading tonight. The first graders are bringing home a book that they've authored themselves, and they're planning on reading to you! Enjoy!
We've practised reading the book here at school, so the students should be able to knock everyone's socks off with their wonderful reading. The book is illustrated to give the students a pictoral nudge if they're stuck. (This is a perfectly fine way for them to help figure out written text at this point in their academic lives.)
If your child gets stuck on a word, a useful strategy they should employ is ask to themselves "What do I know about this word?" Then they can start saying things like, "Well, it starts with a "c" .... that says "c" like the start of cat ... then it has an "a" .... that says "a" ... " etc.
We've been working on reading smoothly, so that it doesn't sound like a robot is speaking, so lavish lots of praise on that smooth expression, if you hear it!
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