Good Readers Use Strategies: Lips the Fish

This week we learned that when readers come to a tricky word, they can use strategies to help them figure it out.

A strategy is a tool to solve a problem. 

The first strategy we learned is "Get your mouth ready". This means that we made the sound of the initial letter in the word. This can help us think about what would make sense. 

Lips the Fish is our friend that will help us remember to use this strategy. 

Each reader received a new tool to use during readers workshop. It is a small light that can help us highlight the words we are reading OR we can use it to highlight that first letter when we are getting our mouth ready.