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How to Teach a Slug to Read shares the steps a slug goes through to learn to read. If you want to teach a slug or child how to read, you will easily be able to follow these steps. They are simple and fun reading strategies.
Without giving to much away here are some of the steps:
- Put labels on his favorite things.
- Read books your slug will be interested in.
- Show your slug words that they will see over and over again.
- Help him sounds out the words in the book.
We loved the commentary between the slug and his mom on each page. They have the best chats about each step. The pictures in this book are wonderful too. I confess we have giggled a lot as we read this fun book.
What did we do to explore this book with reading strategies?
We looked at several simple and fun reading strategies from the book and from my experience as a teacher.
The book suggested that highlighting favorite words in a text. Rather than actually highlighting in a book I found a passage online about slugs for JDaniel and I read together. I read JDaniel the text and he highlighted fun slug related words.
We will try this activity again. I may photocopy a page from a favorite book or find passage online again. It is a great way to work on building vocabulary and learning new words.
This same activity could be used to find sight words or words with specific sounds in them. You may decide to keep a journal of found words or maybe even create a homemade dictionary of them.
Slug Reading Guide
Reading guides are so easy to make. You may want to make different guides for each theme or unit of study you are doing.
Learning how to track your finger while reading text can be done using a folder with solid lines where the text would be. Dotted lines connect the solid lines and mimic the movement your fingers would making as they move from one line to the next. The lines can me drawn in any color you like. I chose yellow so the lines would like like slug slime lines. Yes, my guy got to run his finger right over drawn slime! How cool and gross at the same time. This activity is great reading warm up and help put into muscle memory the flow of text in a book.
Anticipation Building
We did one more activity to go along with this book. I will be putting it up next week. It was such fun I thought it needed a post of its own.
Reading tools and strategies can help young slugs and young children learn to read. Do you have a favorite reading tool or strategy for helping children learn to read?
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I need to start working with the twins. Pierce started reading around their age.
I will look into this….looks like it would really work well with our reluctant readers.
I love this, and we need to look into it! We have one who is struggling learning to read and is just having a lot of issues with it.
Ha! That’s so fun!
That sounds like a great book! Love the slug guide.
Scarlet just turned four. She’s just starting to discuss reading more. I think I was about her age too. Looking forward to helping her learn in fun ways.
I love the activity with the dotted lines that mimic how your eyes/finger go when you are reading. SO SMART and helpful! –Lisa
Cant wait to find out what you did for the anticipation building part 🙂 but i have seen some really good book trailers and loved them enough to go pick up the book!
-Reshama @Stackingbooks.com
This book looks adorable, and I like what you did with it. When we were starting on our reading journey, we used Progressive Phonics, and I really liked their method of shared reading where a parent was reading most of the text while a child was reading highlighted words. My daughter enjoying the fact that both of us “do work” and her reading really took off from there. We never had to use trackers or other ways to keep track of lines, since she did quite well without that extra help.
I like the slug reading guide – makes it cute and fun. That’s a great idea to photocopy a page and highlight. I will have to try that. =0)
I like your interesting slug book blog.. It such a great idea to improve ability to critically analyse the information in a most5 enjoyable way..Thanks for sharing this information with us.