![]() ![]() ![]() Cover the word “brush” with a card or sticky note, and then slowly reveal the first letter.Īsk the students, “Let’s see if Lips the Fish can help us make the beginning sound of this word. I’ll share more about that later in this post)Īfter the Read & Prompt and book discussion, have students refer to their Lips the Fish strategy fan as you read page one of the text together. (This book is available within Guided Readers, my new online guided reading program. To see how you can teach and reinforce the Lips the Fish strategy during a guided reading small group, let’s look at how you might teach it using my book, “ Getting Ready for Bed.” Teaching the Lips the Fish Strategy in Guided Reading It begins with the letter ‘m.’ ‘mmmm.’” Choose other short vowel CVC words, as well as long vowel words including vowel consonant + magic E words. Hold up letter cards and demonstrate how your lips move to form the letter sounds at the beginning of a word, such as “ mop.” Say: “Lips the Fish presses her lips together to make the first sound in this word. To introduce Lips the Fish, start by explaining, “Lips the fish has puckered lips because she is always ready to sound-out words! She gets her lips and mouth ready to say the first sound in a word she doesn’t know. Use the strategies with big books to show how they work. Print the fans and introduce them individually in a series of whole class mini-lessons. Each lesson in my Guided Readers online guided reading program contains strategy fan templates as well as a strategy instruction booklet to guide you as you teach. In addition to having a plastic or stuffed toy fish to use as a prop, you’ll also want to provide strategy fans for students to refer to as they read. ![]() Lips the Fish is an important strategy for Emergent readers to learn so let’s jump in and learn how to teach it! Teaching the Lips the Fish Reading Strategy in a Whole Class Setting This essential strategy centers on the Graphophonic or Visual cues students see as they focus on the printed letters of a word. Lips the Fish reminds readers to look at the beginning of a word and get their lips ready to say the first sound. The Eagle Eye strategy teaches readers to use their eyes to gain information from the pictures on the page, and the Lips the Fish strategy is the next logical step. That means they’re ready to learn to use the “Lips the Fish” strategy! If you’re ready to learn how to teach it, keep reading! Once they can recognize and use these cues, they’ll begin to see how letter-sound relationships help them solve unknown words. Graphophonic or visual cues are so important for readers at this level. Are you wondering how to effectively teach reading strategies to your Emergent readers? Readers at the Emergent level are reading on levels A through C. ![]()
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