Strategies for Reading Tricky Words

Below is a list of reading strategies to have your child use when they are reading and come to a word they do not know.

• Look at the pictures for clues

• Say the first sound

• Stretch the word out and put sounds together

• Look for word chunks and word parts

• Skip the word and read to the end of the sentence then try it again

• Try to reread the sentence

• Try a word that makes sense

• Try a different vowel sound