Merging Read Aloud, Shared, Guided & Independent Reading: Teaching With Text Sets in Grade 1: Bears - Real & Imagined

Text sets are collections of resources designed to support learning. Focusing on a concept or topic, a text-set collection often includes multiple genres such as books, e-resources, infographics, charts and maps, poetry, film, and songs, photographs, non-fiction texts, and other types of text. In this post I outline a few possibilities for grade 1.

Grade: Grade 1 Topic: Bears : Real and Imagined

Read Aloud

Fiction Read Aloud
Litchfield, David. (2015). The Bear and the Piano. London, UK: Frances Lincoln.
Na,  Il Sung. (2015). Welcome Home, Bear: A Book of Animal Habitats.  New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. (650L)
Sarcone-Roach, Julia. (2015). The Bear Ate Your Sandwich. New York: Knopf Books for Young Readers. (Tall Tale) (490L)
Soman, David. (2014).  Three Bears in a Boat.  New York: Dial. (730L)




Nonfiction Read Aloud

from Wild About Bears

Arnonsky, Jim. (1996). Every Autumn Comes the Bear. New York: Puffin. (410L)
Brett, Jeannie. (2014). Wild About Bears.  Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. (1070L)
Davies Nicola.(2008). Ice Bear: Read and Wonder. In the Steps of the Polar Bear. Illustrated by Gary Blythe. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. (950L)
Dowson, Nick. (2013). North: The Amazing Story of Arctic Migration. Illustrated by Patrick Benson. Somerville, MA: Candlewick. (910L)
Raye, Rebekah. (2009). Bear-ly There.  Thomaston, ME: Tilbury House Publishers. (880L)
Winter Jeanette. (2016). Nanuk the Ice Bear. New York: Beach Lane Books.

Shared Reading

from Moon Bear, Illustrated by Ed Young

Big Book
Galdone, Paul. (2014). The Three Bears. Boston, MA: HMH Books for Young Readers.

Call and Response Texts
Guiberson, Brenda Z. (2010). Moon Bear. Illustrated by Ed Young. New York: Henry Holt and Co.

Rhythm and Rhyme
Big Books for Shared Reading
Martin, Bill. (2011). Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Big Book (Brown Bear and Friends). Illustrated by Eric Carle. New York: Henry Holt.
Martin, Bill. (2007). Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See? Illustrated by Eric Carle. New York: Henry Holt.
Rosen, Michael. (1997). We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Illustrated by Helen Oxenbury. New York: Walker Books.
Poems, Songs, & Finger Play
Brown, Ron. The Three Bears Rap.
Buchanan, Liz. The Three Bears.
Milne, A.A. Furry Bear.
Silverstein, Shel. Bear In There. (from The Giving Tree)
Five Little Bears (Finger Play)

Video/Nursery Rhyme
Mother Goose Club. (2015). The Bear Went Over the Mountain. Video.

Guided Reading Texts

from Bear and Monkey

Emergent
Berenstain, Stan & Jan. (1999). Berenstain Bears in the House of Mirrors. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers. Level A/1.

Hanson, Sony. Basketball. Illustrated by David Macri. Pembina, ND: Blueberry Hill Books. Level C/3
Harrison, Pat. Bear and Monkey. Illustrated by David Macri. Pembina, ND: Blueberry Hill Books. Level C/3
Martin, Bill. (2010). Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? Illustrated by Eric Carle. New York: Henry Holt. Level C/3.
Mitchell, Sara. Sleepy Bear. New York: Scholastic. Level C/3
Smith, Annette. (1997). Little Teddy and Monkey. Illustrated by Chantal Stewart. Rigby PM Stars. Level C/3
Lewis, Rose. Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Illustrated by Michelle Morse. Northampton, MA: Pioneer Valley Books. Level C/4
Randell, Beverly. (2004). A Home for Little Teddy. Illustrated by Chantal Stewart. Rigby PM Reader. Level C/4

Early

from  Baby Bear Goes Fishing.

Randell, Beverly. (2004). Ben's Teddy Bear. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level D/5.
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Father Bear Goes Fishing. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe.Rigby PM Reader. Level D/5
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Teddy Bears' Picnic. Illustrated by Chantal Stewart. Rigby PM Reader. Level D/5.
McPhail, David. (2004). Rick is Sick. Boston, MA: HMH Books.  D/6
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Blackberries. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. LevelD/6

Randell, Beverly. (2004). Baby Bear Goes Fishing. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level E/7
Berenstain, Stan & Jan. (1968). Inside, Outside, Upside Down. New York: Random House Books for Young Readers. Level E/8
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Mother Bear' Scarf.  Illustrated by Isabel Lowe.Rigby PM Reader. Level E/8.
McPhail, David. (2007). Jack and Rick. Boston, MA: HMH Books.  E/8

from Just Like Daddy.

Maris, Ron. (1986). Are You There, Bear? New York: Puffin. Level F/9
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Baby Bear's Present. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level F/9
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Honey for Baby Bear. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level F/9

Asch, Fran. (2015). Just Like Daddy. New York: Scholastic.  Level F/10
McPhail, David. (2007). Big Brown Bear/El gran oso pardo. Boston, MA: HMH Books.  Level F/10
McPhail, David. (1998). A Bug, A Bear, and a Boy. New York: Scholastic. Level F/10
McPhail, David. (1993). Emma's Pet. New York: Puffin. Level F/10
McPhail, David. (2005). The Teddy Bear. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Level F/10
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Baby Bear' Climbs a Tree. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level F/10
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Eggs and Dandelions. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe.Rigby PM Reader. Level F/10
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Baby Bear's Hiding Place. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level F/10

Dickey, Laurel. The Three Bears.  Illustrated by Tracey La Rue Hohn. Northampton, MA: Pioneer Valley Books. Level G/11
Dufresene, Michele. The Fishing Adventure. Illustrated by Cula Carmen Elena. Northampton, MA: Pioneer Valley Books. Level G/11.
Mack, Stan. (2012). 10 Bears in My Bed. New York: Random House. Level G/11.
Randell, Beverly. (2004). Mushrooms for Dinner. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level G/11
Mattison, Ruth. The Story of the Three Bears. Illustrated by Max Stasiuk. Northampton, MA: Pioneer Valley Books. Level G/12.
Randell, Beverly. (2004). The Bears and the Magpie. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe.Rigby PM Reader. Level G/12
Randell, Beverly. (2004). House Hunting. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe. Rigby PM Reader. Level G
Rendall, Jennie. When Goldilocks Went to the House of the Bears. New York: Mondo Press, Level G/12

Carlstrom, Nancy White. (1996). Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear? Illustrated by Bruce Degen. New York: Aladdin. Level H/14
McPhail, David. (1993). Lost! New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Level H/14



Randell, Beverly. (2004). Father Bear's Surprise. Illustrated by Isabel Lowe.Rigby PM Reader. Level H/14
Nellie, Elsie. (2014). Why Bears Have Short Tails. Illustrated by Dale Newman. Rigby PM Stars. Level H/14
Minarik, Else Holmelund. (1996). A Kiss for Little Bear. New York: Harper Collins. Level H/14.

Carlstrom, Nancy White. (1996). Guess Who's Coming, Jesse Bear. Illustrated by Bruce Degen. New York: Aladdin. Level I/16
Harrison, Pat. Sleeping Under the Stars. Illustrated by M. Wheeler. Pembina, ND: Blueberry Hill Books. Level I/16
McLeod, Emilie Warren. (1986). The Bear's Bicycle. New York: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Level I/16
McPhail, David. (1992). Fix-It. New York: Puffin. Level I/16
Minarik, Else Holmelund. (1978). Father Bear Comes Home. New York: Harper Collins. Level I/16
Rueda, Claudia. My Little Polar Bear. New York: Scholastic, Level I/16.
Stuart, Melissa. (2002). Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Illustrated by Marc Mongeau. New York: Scholastic. Level I/16
Wood. Audrey. (1984). The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear. Illustrated by Don Wood. Child's Play. Level I/16

Transitional
Asch, Frank. (1991). Bear's Bargain. New York: Scholastic. Level J/17
Asch, Frank. (2001). Goodbye House. New York: Scholastic. Level J/17
Asch, Frank. (2001). Good Night, Baby Bear. New York: Scholastic. Level J/17
Asch, Frank. (1999). Moonbear's Shadow. New York: Aladdin. Level J/17
Flack, Marjorie. (1971).  Ask Mr. Bear. New York: Aladdin. Level J/17
Minarik, Else Holmelund. (1996). Little Bear. New York: Harper Collins. Level J/17.
Minarik, Else Holmelund. (1996). Little Bear's Friend. New York: Harper Collins. Level J/17.

Minarik, Else Holmelund. (1996). Little Bear's Visit. New York: Harper Collins. Level J/17.

from Bear Has a Story to Tell, Illustrated by Erin Stead

McPhail, David. (2000). Drawing Lessons from a Bear.  New York: Little, Brown. Level K/18
Wilson, Karma. (2002).  Bear Snores On. Illustrated by Jane Chapman.  New York: Margaret K. McElderry Books. Level K/18
Stead, Philip C. (2012). Bear Has a Story to Tell. Illustrated by Erin E. Stead. New York: Roaring Brook Press.  Level K/18

from Brer Rabbit and the Moon: A Southern American Folk Tale.

Asch, Frank. (1999). Happy Birthday, Moon. New York: Scholastic. Level L/20
Dufresene, Michele. Brer Rabbit and the Moon: A Southern American Folk Tale. Illustrated by Michelle Morse. Northampton, MA: Pioneer Valley Books. Level K-L/20.

Minarik, Else Holmelund. (1996). Little Bear and the Marco Polo. New York: Harper Collins. Level L/20.

Merging Read Aloud, Shared, Guided & Independent Reading: Teaching With Text Sets in Grade 1: All About Seeds

Grade 1 Topic:  Seeds

1. Read Aloud Books

Read aloud books provide students with the occasion to develop world knowledge through vocabulary development, to deepen and complicate comprehension, and to write in response to text through modeled, shared, interactive and independent writing.

1. Aston, Dianna Hutts. (2007). A Seed is Sleepy. Illustrated by Sylvia Long. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. (750L)
2. Codell, Esme Rajo. (2012). Seed by Seed: The Legend and Legacy of Johnny “Appleseed” Chapman. Illustrated by Lynne Rae Perkins. New York: Greenwillow. (940L)
3. Gringsby, Susan. (2010).  In the Garden with Dr. Carver. Illustrated by Nicole Tadgell. Morton Grove,  IL: Albert Whitman & Company. (990L)
4. Messner, Kate. (2015). Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books. 
5. Peterson, Cris. (2010).  Seed, Soil, Sun: Earth's Recipe for Food. Photographs by  David R. Lundquist. Honedale, PA: Boyds Mills Press. (1050L)
6. Pfeffer, Wendy. (2004). From Seed to Pumpkin. Illustrated by James Graham Hale. New York: HarperTrophy. (640L)
7. Richards, Jean.  (2002). A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds. Illustrated by Anca Hariton. Minneapolis, MN: First Avenue Editions. (No Lexile Level)
8. Museum of Chicago Television. (1980/2008). George Washington Carver. Video. Retrieved 8.1.13 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aClMTQ5UvIk 

2. Shared Reading Texts

Shared reading texts provide students with the occasion to develop world knowledge, book handling concepts, and foundational reading skills.

1. An Apple a Day. Newbridge.
2. Seeds Get Around. Newbridge.
3. The Tiny Seed (Eric Carle, Level L/20, 400 L)
4. Up, Down, and Around (180L)
5. The Farmer and In Daddy's Arm from In Daddy's Arms I Am Tall: African Americans Celebrating Fathers  (Steptoe)
6. Planting a Rainbow (Lois Ehlert)
7. Seeds Get Around (Newbridge)

from Yum, Apples

3. Small Group Reading & Familiar Rereading Texts

Texts used for small group guided reading and then familiar independent rereading provide students with the occasion to practice what they have begun to learn during read aloud and shared reading first in a guided setting and then independently.

Plants (Level A)
This Pumpkin (Level A)
Yum, Apples (Level B)
Hello Flower (Level C)
Plant Parts We Eat (Level D)
From Seed to Apple (Level D/6)
Grow Seed Grow (Level E)
Apple Tree Year (Level E)
From Seeds (Level E/8)
Little Critter—My First I Can Read!™: A Green, Green Garden (Level E/9)
Gus Grows a Plant (Level F/10)
This is the Sunflower (Level F/10)
What Does a Garden Need? (Level G/11)
I'm A Seed (Level G/12)
Green and Growing (Level H)
And Then It's Spring (Level H/14)
If You Hold a Seed (I/16, 270L)
How a Seed Grows (Level I/16, 400 L)
Jack's Garden (Level I/16)
One Bean (Level I16, 520L)

Here Comes Autumn: New K-2 Books To Read Aloud

Bell, Lisa. (2015). Autumn: Leaves Fall from the Trees! (My First Science Songs). Illustrated by Emily Brooks. North Mankato, MN: Cantata Learning.
This is both an informational text and a song book. A song book with music included.

Chernesky, Felicia Sanzari. (2015). From Apple Trees to Cider, Please! Illustrated by Julia Patton. Morton Grove, IL: Albert Whitman & Company.
A frolicking rhyme explains how apple cider is made.

Detlefsen, Lisl H. (2015). Time for Cranberries. Illustrated by Jed Henry. New York: Roaring Brook Press.
Harvest time! A boy, Sam, is finally old enough to help his parents harvest cranberries.  Explains the process. Recipes included.

Duval, Kathy. (2015). A Bear's Year. Illustrated by Gerry Turley. New York:  Schwartz & Wade.
A book about the changing seasons.

Hayes, Karel. (2015). The Autumn Visitors. Lanham, MD: Down East Books.
A bear family enjoys a New England autumn. The fourth in a series of books about the bears.

Miller, Pat Zietlow. (2015). Sharing the Bread: An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Story. Illustrated by Jill McElmurry. New York: Schwartz & Wade.
Told through rhythmic and rhyming text, this story chronicles the making of a Thanksgiving feast by an extended family.

from Ask Me

Waber, Bernard. (2015). Ask Me. Illustrated by Suzy Lee. Boston, MA: HMH Books.
A young girl and her father talk as they go for a walk in fall.

Yee, Wong Herert. (2015). My Autumn Book. New York: Henry Holt.
A little girl creates an autumn book so she can remember the changes come winter. Rhyme. Figurative Language. 

K-4 Books about Women Scientists & Mathematicians: 2015 - 2016

from Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor.

Burleigh, Robert. (2016). Solving the Puzzle Under the Sea: Marie Tharp Maps the Ocean Floor. Illustrated by Raúl Colón. New York: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books.
I have enjoyed many other books that Burleigh and Colón created.  The two bring us a picture book biography is of Marie Tharp who is credited with mapping the Atlantic Ocean floor. This title will be released 1.12.16.

Buzzeo, Toni. (2015). Passion for Elephants: The Real Life Adventure of Field Scientist Cynthia Moss. Illustrated by Holly Berry. New York: Dial Books. (32 pp.)
A picture book biography of Cynthia Moss, an elephant expert. This title will be released 9.15.15.

McCully, Emily Arnold. (2016). Marvelous Mattie: How Margaret E. Knight Became an Inventor. New York: Square Fish.
Originally released in 2006, this biography of inventor Mattie Knight, dubbed The Lady Edison, is being reissued in paperback format. This title will be released in paperback on 1.19.16.

Stanley, Diane. (2016). Ada Lovelace, Poet of Science: The First Computer Programmer. Illustrated by Jessie Hartland. New York: Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books.
Another picture book biography of Ada Lovelace--19th century mathematician and computer programmer. This title will be released 5.3.16.

Van Vleet, Carmella  and Dr. Kathy Sullivan. (2016). To the Stars! The First American Woman to Walk in Space.  Illustrated by Nicole Wong. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge. (40 pp.)
A picture book biography of Kathy Sullivan, a NASA astronaut. This title will be released 1.6.16.

Wallmark, Laurie. (2015). Ada Byron Lovelace and the Thinking Machine. Illustrated by April Chu. Berkeley, CA: Creston Books. (40 pp.)
A picture book biography about Lord Byron's daughter, Ada--a19th century mathematician who wrote the world's first computer program. This title will be released 10.13.15.

Let's Imagine: 5 Picture Books of Wonder

from The Wonder

Hanson, Faye. (2015).  The Wonder. London, UK: Templar.

A boy, distracted with head full of wonder, walks through life day dreaming.  He wonders “what the crossing guard’s sign would taste like" among other things. He's told: Get your head out of the clouds. No day dreaming. Pay attention...  Encouraged by his art teacher, he realizes that he can use his imagination to make art. Then the shift happens in the text from sepia colored images to color. This is a début picture book.

from The Wonder

Kuefler, Joseph. (2015). Beyond the Pond. New York:  Balzer + Bray.

A curious boy, bored at home, decides to explore the pond. Ernest D's adventure leads him well beyond the limits of a bit of water. This is a début picture book.

from Beyond the Pond

from Pool

Lee, JiHyeon. (2015). Pool. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books.
A boy, a girl, a crowded pool and a bit of imagination is all it takes to transform the mundane into something decidedly different. Wordless wonder.  This is a début picture book.

from Float

Miyares, Daniel. (2015). Float. New York: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.
A wordless tale of what happens when a boy, a folded piece of paper and a puddle meet.

from The Whisper

Zagarenski, Pamela. (2015). The Whisper. Boston: HMH.
“You can imagine the words…the stories….There are never any rules…imagining just is.”

Early Literacy Series #7: Teaching Comprehension & Fluency

This is the seventh of seven posts about early literacy.



One of the challenges in helping children learn how to read is providing a variety of daily experiences that develop fluency and comprehension. In this last post of the series, I outline few instructional practices teachers can use during interactive and shared reading and interactive writing.

Fluency Chart

Fluency

1. Model oral reading with expression in patterned and familiar storybooks during shared reading.
2. Create opportunities for student to read chorally with you as you read familiar refrains. This works well when the text can be seen by the students through the use of big books, charts, and projected text.
3. Choose patterned text, including familiar nursery rhymes and poems, to have students practice reading with phrasing and expression. Again it is important that students see the text. 
4. Consistently uses one-to-one matching with new text (reads almost exclusively word-by-word, usually pointing with finger).
5. Model pointing as needed in shared reading and interactive writing.
6. Encourage beginning readers to point to each word as he or she reads.
7. Encourage peer to peer talk.

Comprehension

Retelling Anchor Chart

1. When reading aloud (interactive and shared reading) encourage students to elaborate on details from the story by providing prompts like, then what happened?
2. Select meaningful texts for reading aloud and as guided reading materials. Consider text quality and context.
3. Ask students to tell how details in pictures relate to the story. 
4. Encourage students to point to the pictures as they talk about details in the story.
5. Encourage student to look back at text and pictures as you discuss the text after reading.
6. Create opportunities for discussion of read-aloud and shared reading text.
7. Pose a question for student about text and as he formulates answers ask, "What in the picture tells you that? What in the text tells you that?"
8. Create an anchor chart where you record the information from pictures and text.
9. Create anchor charts as you work together to identify story elements.
10. Model talking about parts of text in sequence during shared reading. Teach students about the prompts as well (i.e. Tell me more, what makes you think that? etc.). 
11. During guided reading prompt students to talk about parts in sequence.
12. Give student multiple opportunities to identify and discuss the story elements as you work together in texts.
13. Thoughtfully chunk text (create stopping points) as you plan for guided reading, shared reading and interactive read aloud opportunities.
14. At chosen stopping points ask student, What do you think will happen next? to encourage careful predictions.
15. Give student multiple opportunities to discuss predictions with peers and/or teacher.
16. Confirm or change predictions as you continue reading text together. 
17. During interactive read-alouds model making predictions based on illustrations or parts of stories. 
18. Teach students what it means to make predictions. 
19. Create an anchor chart about making predictions to refer to during later teaching about predictions.
20. Teach students to monitor predictions during interactive read aloud.
21. Pose questions that invite children to infer at spots in the text and across the text.



A student's questions recorded during a read aloud.

22. Teach students how to pose their own questions and privilege this work.

Students' Inferring Chart Kept During Guided Reading

Students' Inferring Chart Kept During Guided Reading

Early Literacy Series #1: Shared Reading & Writing and CAP
Early Literacy Series #2: Shared Reading Resources for Preschool and Kindergarten
Early Literacy Series #3: Teaching Rhyming and Initial Sound Instruction
Early Literacy Series #4: Teaching Sound and Letter Identification in Kindergarten
Early Literacy Series #5: Teaching Blending & Segmenting through Books and Poetry
Books to Teach the 37 Most Common Rimes: The Rime Poetry Book. 

Early Literacy Series #6: Teaching Word Solving through Shared & Guided Reading

Early Literacy Series #6: Teaching Word Solving through Shared & Guided Reading

This is the sixth of seven posts about early literacy.

Guided Reading in Kindergarten

Teaching Sight Words

1. Provide students with a classroom word wall so that they have a mental anchor to sight words.
2. Add several sight words a week to the wall and regularly interact with the wall. I found Pat Cunningham's Phonics They Use to be a great resource in how to make sure the wall remains interactive. Also this ppt is helpful. 
3. Encourage students to find word wall words in the text during small and whole group lessons.
4. Explain that sight words help make reading easier because we can use them.
5. Use an individual-size and/or full-size word wall to help build a sight word vocabulary or provide students with a portable word wall the children can use when they are writing as Lenore Furman, a kindergarten teacher at Abington School in Newark designed.  See video below.

6. Look at the books you'll be using for guided reading during Levels A through C and make sure that you have all of the sights words identified for teaching. I do this rather than rely on a list from a program.  Individual Word Wall Template.

7. If an unknown word is on the word wall, refer to it as a student comes to a sight word she does not recall. Say, That word is on the word wall, can you find it? What is that word? Okay, reread the sentence now that you remember the word. If the word is not on the word wall, use context clues to help the child figure it out (skip it and reread, look at the letters) and add it to the wall. 

1st grader using the app, Sight Words.

8. My favorite app for teaching sight words is Sight Words by Teacher Created Materials.

A small group interactive writing lesson with kindergarten children. They were writing in response to a read aloud.

9. Make sure to include taught sight words during interactive writing.  As one students is writing the whole sight word in text, the other students can write the word on the carpet or on individual whiteboards.

The cut apart sentence, focusing on specific letter and word learning in grade 1.

10. Cut apart a sentence into individual words and have students reassemble it.

11. Use highlighter tape and highlight sight words (you are studying) in shared reading texts. Wide tape.

12. Build the words with letter tiles or magnetic letters. 

13. Stamp the words using alphabet rubber stamps. 

14. Use alphabet cookie cutters or play dough letter stamps to stamp the words into play dough.

15. Determine a procedure to teach sight words and stick to it. I like Jan Richardson's 4-part process. (What's Missing? Mix and Fix. Finger Spell. Table Writing)

What Do I Do When I Come to A Word I Don't Know: Word Solving

1. Use prompts to cue student to use first sounds as she solves for unknown words, such as, What sound does that word start with?

2. Prompt students by saying, Get your mouth ready for the first sound.

3. Prompt students to Look at the beginning of the word.

4. Prompt students to Look through the whole word.

5. Encourage cross-checking and self-correcting behaviors by prompting student to look at pictures and words as she solves for the unknown.
6. Also, prompt student to reread and fix miscues when her reading doesn't make sense, sound right, or look right (words and pictures don't match).
7. Instruct student that reading always makes sense, sounds right, and looks right. If reading does not make sense, sound right, or look right, she needs to reread and make changes.
8. After child reads through a miscue, guide him back to the point of miscue and ask, Did that make sense? or Did that sound right? or Does that look like what you read? Ask child to reread and fix error.

from http://www.teachingace.com/reading-strategies-anchor-chart/

9 While reading with a student in instructional text, prompt student at the point of word-solving to, Look for parts you know. Do you know a word like that? Do you know any other word that has the same letters at the end/beginning?
10. Add one word from each word family/rime to the word wall. Use that word to help write and read other words.
11. Indicate the special word family words/rimes by placing a star next to them on the word wall.
12. Prompt child to use the word wall as a resource for these words: That word looks like one of our word wall helper words. Can you find the one it looks like? What is the word wall word? If that's____, what is the word in the book? 

13. Capture strategies on an anchor chart the children can use.

Early Literacy Series #1: Shared Reading & Writing and CAP
Early Literacy Series #2: Shared Reading Resources for Preschool and Kindergarten
Early Literacy Series #3: Teaching Rhyming and Initial Sound Instruction
Early Literacy Series #4: Teaching Sound and Letter Identification in Kindergarten
Early Literacy Series #5: Teaching Blending & Segmenting through Books and Poetry
Books to Teach the 37 Most Common Rimes: The Rime Poetry Book. 
Early Literacy Series #7: Teaching Comprehension & Fluency