We have been working on strategies to help us 

read words accurately.

Chunky Monkey reminds us to look for smaller chunks (word parts) in bigger words.

 

Lips the Fish reminds us to "get our mouths ready" by saying 

the first sound in the word.

Stretchy the Snake reminds us to stretch words out.

Eagle Eye reminds us to look at the pictures 

to figure out tricky words.

Flippy the Dolphin teaches us to try both vowel sounds, long and short, to see if we can figure out the tricky words.  We "flip the vowel sound".

 

Hoppy the Frog teaches us to skip the tricky word, hop over it, read to the end, and then re-read 

to figure out the word.

Tryin' Lion teaches us to try a new word 

and see if the new word makes sense.