What Can We Say Beyond "Sound it out"?
To help children monitor their own reading and cross check:
•(Allow sufficient wait time)
• Try that again.
• Were you right? You said… is that right?
• Why did you stop? What did you notice?
• What, can you try?
• I like the way you tried to work that out.
• Check to see if what you said looks right, sounds right, and makes sense.
• It could be… but look at….
• Is it… or… How can we check?
• Point to each letter with your finger. Did that match? Did you run out?
• There was a tricky part on that page. Can you find it?
• You point and I'll read it like you did. Were you right? Could that be?
To help children use meaning:
• Look at the picture to help yourself.
• You said… Does that make sense?
• Try that again and think what would make sense.
• What would You think it could be?
• Make a good guess and go on.
To help children use language structure:
• You said… Does that sound right?
• Does that fit here?
• Can we say it that way?
• Does that sound Like the way talk? What would you think it could be?
• Try that again and think what would sound right.
To help children use visual information:
• Does that look right to you?
• What could you try?
• How did you how it was…?
• Look at how the word begins.
• Do you know another word that starts (ends) that way? • Get your mouth ready for the first sound.
• Can you say more of the word? Let the word tumble out.
• Do you know another word that looks like this? (use word families, like cat, hat, pat…)
• Do you see a small chunk of the word that you know?
• If that was … what would you expect to see at the beginning? At the end? In the middle?
(Adapted from the work of Marie Clay)
To help children monitor their own reading and cross check:
•(Allow sufficient wait time)
• Try that again.
• Were you right? You said… is that right?
• Why did you stop? What did you notice?
• What, can you try?
• I like the way you tried to work that out.
• Check to see if what you said looks right, sounds right, and makes sense.
• It could be… but look at….
• Is it… or… How can we check?
• Point to each letter with your finger. Did that match? Did you run out?
• There was a tricky part on that page. Can you find it?
• You point and I'll read it like you did. Were you right? Could that be?
To help children use meaning:
• Look at the picture to help yourself.
• You said… Does that make sense?
• Try that again and think what would make sense.
• What would You think it could be?
• Make a good guess and go on.
To help children use language structure:
• You said… Does that sound right?
• Does that fit here?
• Can we say it that way?
• Does that sound Like the way talk? What would you think it could be?
• Try that again and think what would sound right.
To help children use visual information:
• Does that look right to you?
• What could you try?
• How did you how it was…?
• Look at how the word begins.
• Do you know another word that starts (ends) that way? • Get your mouth ready for the first sound.
• Can you say more of the word? Let the word tumble out.
• Do you know another word that looks like this? (use word families, like cat, hat, pat…)
• Do you see a small chunk of the word that you know?
• If that was … what would you expect to see at the beginning? At the end? In the middle?
(Adapted from the work of Marie Clay)