The document provides strategies to improve reading accuracy and comprehension. It recommends blending sounds, chunking letters and sounds, finding small words within big words, checking if words sound right and make sense, and skipping and returning to unknown words. It also suggests checking for understanding by asking who, what, when, where and why questions about the story multiple times. The overall strategies are aimed at developing phonics skills and monitoring comprehension while reading.

1. Accuracy Reading Strategies
'I can read the words.'

2. S-t-r-e-t-c-h
and blend sounds
·Take individual sounds of letters and blend them together.
·As you are blending the sounds together, listen for a word you might have heard before.

6. Chunk letters and sounds together and find small
words within big words
·Beginning and ending sounds
jump must
·blend sounds
green snake
·Word families
day, say, way

7. ·Find small words within a word
cabin start
Frame it!
ca bin

9. Flip the Sound
·Some letters have two sounds, we try one sound. If it doesn't sound right, we try the other sound that letter can make.
·All the vowels make two sounds and some letters like: "g", "c", "s".

11. Cross Checking
·Does the word you are reading match the picture or letters
written?
cat
·Does it sound right?
·Does it make sense?

13. Skip the Word, Then Come Back
·When students come to a word they don't know, they skip over the word until they come to the end of the
sentence. Then they back up and read the sentence again, using the first letter of the skipped word to figure it
out.

15. Comprehension Reading Strategies
'I understand what I read.'

16. Check for Understanding
·Who was the story about?
·What happened?
We try to do this three or four times throughout the story.