Reading Strategy Bookmark

These reading animals are wonderful way to teach children reading strategies for unfamiliar words. Teach the children how to use the strategies, then focus on one or two strategies in a reading lesson or praise the child when they use one of the strategies. These bookmarks also help parents and teaching assistants support children’s reading.

Stretchy Snake: The child sounds out the word slowly, blends the sounds and says the word.

Chunky Monkey: They breaks the word into smaller parts or words then reads the word blending the parts.

Tryin Lion: They try reading the word another way using alternate phonemes.

Eagle Eye: The child looks at the pictures for clues.

Bouncing Bunny: They read the sentence skipping out the word, then come back and read the sentence filling in the missing word based on contextual clues.

Pointy Porcupine: They point to the words or sounds as they read.

Wise Owl: The child listens to hear if the word or sentence makes sense.