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Reading Cheat Sheet

IF A CHILD STRUGGLES WITH PRE-READING SKILLS, WORK ON....


Finding a good reading spot

Selecting a “just right” book

Getting started reading right away

Reading the whole time

Reading for longer stretches of time to build stamina

Looking at the cover illustration to gather clues about what the story will be about

Pointing underneath one word at a time

Reading left to right across the page

Finding the title of the book

Reading the pictures for clues about what is happening

Looking for sight words they already know

Looking for repeating text

Using prior knowledge to connect with the story © The Reading Roadmap.

Asking “What’s happening?” to follow what the story is about

Making predictions about what will happen next

Retelling the story when they are finished

Rereading the story when they finish to practice the words again
Reading Cheat Sheet
IF A CHILD STRUGGLES WITH ACCURACY, WORK ON....
Learning how to pick a “just right” book

Asking “Does that make sense?”

Checking “Does that look right?”

Asking “Does that sound right?”

Looking at pictures for clues

Checking beginning and ending sounds

Starting with the part of the word that they already know

Looking for pairs of letters that make sounds together (sh, ch or ph for example)

Finding vowels that go together

Skipping the word and coming back to it again

Stretching out the word slowly, then saying it again fast

© The Reading Roadmap.


Rereading from the beginning of the sentence when they figure out the tricky word

Swapping out the vowel sound for its pair (ex. changing a long vowel to its short sound) if the
word doesn’t sound right the first time

Making a good guess about what the tricky word might be


Reading Cheat Sheet
IF A CHILD STRUGGLES WITH COMPREHENSION, WORK ON....
Making mental pictures of what is happening

Backing up and rereading from the spot where they lost track of what was happening

Asking questions as they read

Making connections between the book and their own life

Thinking about what they already know to help them understand what is happening

Predicting what will happen next and revising guesses as they go along

Thinking about literary elements: genre, plot, character, setting, problem/resolution

Learning how to read non-fiction text by using the table of contents, index, headings and captions

Understanding different characters’ point of views

Increasing vocabulary

Recognizing characteristics of different authors

Retelling what happened in the beginning, middle and end


© The Reading Roadmap.
Asking “Would I recommend this book to a friend? Why?”

Thinking about how characters changed from the beginning of the book to the end and why

Using nonfiction text to do research


Reading Cheat Sheet
IF A CHILD STRUGGLES WITH FLUENCY, WORK ON....
Spending more time practicing reading

Picking “just right” books

Memorizing high frequency sight words

Reading strings of 2 to 5 sight words fluently

Learning tricky letters or spelling patterns (ex. CVCe words, blends, digraphs)

Rereading to build speed and accuracy

Using punctuation marks to read with expression

Making their voice match the feeling of the story (ex. sounding disappointed during a sad part or
excited during a happy part)

Incorporating character voices

Using a narrator voice

© The Reading Roadmap.


Reading all the way through to the end of a sentence instead of stopping at the end of a line of
text

Taking a quick pause for commas and a longer pause for periods

Reading ahead to the end of the sentence to see how the character said the words and then
hopping back to the characters’ dialogue to use the correct voice (ex. If it says “she whispered”
at the end of the dialogue, students would whisper the characters’ words.)

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