The symbols beneath sounds get smaller in this task. They will soon disappear altogether.
The final part of this task introduces reading words sub-vocally when the words have small, unpronounced characters.
Ensure that students touch under the words when reading them silently and when saying them fast.
If a student struggles to read words correctly out loud fast, ask the student to read the word slowly out loud so that you can diagnose the problem.
❖ If the student needs a reminder to ignore the smaller letters, say: We don’t read small sounds like that. Just read the big sounds and skip any small ones. You try…
This is the first task in which students follow along with their finger during your first fluent reading of the passage. (Until now, they had been following along with their fingers during your second reading of the passage.)
Starting with the new passage in this task, story text has two spaces between words instead of three.
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