What kinds of books should you choose to read with your beginning reader?

How do you support your beginning reader as they begin to read?

What can you do as your reader reads?  What can you say?

How to do the "whole job of reading" when you are reading with your young learner

What should your young reader do when they come to a word they don't know?

When your reader "reads the sounds" they can tap the sounds with their fingers.  They tap sounds in their classroom and in Reading Academy.

Remember . . . "The best chunks have two or three or four letters!"  Here's how to find chunks in words.

Got a short book? Here are two ways to retell it!

Got a longer book?  Here's how to retell the beginning, middle, and end--with good details and characters' names!

Retelling a nonfiction or information book means you are thinking about how true main ideas and details are organized.  How do the details tell more about each main idea?

How can you make a connection to text from something you know or have experienced?

Here's one way to make a thoughtful connection between text and something you know or have experienced.

Here is a ton of ideas for things to talk about when you read any book!