Connections

For the next couple of weeks, we will be discussing making connections while we read. There are three main kinds of connections that readers can make: text to self where readers find similarities between what happens in the story and their own life; text to text where they find similarities between two different books; and text to world where similarities are found between the book and the world (or community). This week we will be making text to self and text to text connections using the books "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day", "The Difficult Day", "Oliver Button" and "Amazing Grace". I invite you to encourage your children to make connections in the books that they read at home too, referencing specific examples in the books to support their answers.

We have also started using our shared reading poems and songs as a way to reinforce and practice different reading strategies such as chunking a longer word into smaller, more manageable parts, or finding smaller words inside longer ones. I will be sending home a more comprehensive list of reading strategies for your reference shortly. The more strategies students have to use when they come to unknown words in their reading, the more successful they can be deciphering it.