As Year 1 Students become more independent readers, they will be more able to select books that are a good fit for them. This worksheet allows students to practise the skill of using the 5 finger rule to select a good fit book.
Some students may benefit from some teacher guidance in choosing a good fit book.
Read decodable and authentic texts using developing phonic knowledge, phrasing and fluency, and monitoring meaning using context and grammatical knowledge
Read decodable and predictable texts using developing phrasing, fluency, contextual, semantic, grammatical and phonic knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, for example prediction, monitoring meaning and re-reading
Draws on an increasing range of skills and strategies to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on less familiar topics in different media and technologies
Understands and effectively uses Tier 1, taught Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary to extend and elaborate ideas
Uses initial and extended phonics, including vowel digraphs, trigraphs to decode and encode words when reading and creating texts
Sustains reading unseen texts with automaticity and prosody and self-corrects errors
Comprehends independently read texts that require sustained reading by activating background and word knowledge, connecting and understanding sentences and whole text, and monitoring for meaning
Read texts with familiar features and structures using developing phrasing, fluency, phonic, semantic, contextual, and grammatical knowledge and emerging text processing strategies, including prediction, monitoring meaning and rereading