This document provides reading strategies for dealing with tricky words. It recommends using a "helping hand" technique which involves looking at pictures for clues, rereading sentences, sounding out the first letter, looking for familiar word parts, and checking if it makes sense. Mastering these strategies will help the reader become a better reader.

1. Joy Jensen
Reading Strategies

2. Reading can be very fun.

3. Sometimes reading can be tricky.

4. When you get to a tricky word, remember the
helping hand to help you figure it out.

5. Try looking at the picture for clues.

6. Go back and read the sentence again.

7. Get your mouth ready to say the first
sound in the word.

8. Look for chunks inside the tricky word that
you already know.

9. Listen to yourself read, does it make
sense?

10. Using the helping hand will help you to
become a great reader!

11. References:
Helping Hand Graphic:
http://www.woodstockschools.net/Reading
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Ear Image:
http://www.aintreehospitals.nhs.uk/Library/hospital_servi
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