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Check Your Reading: Look Right, Sound Right, Make Sense

  • Grade 1
  • English Language Arts
  • 54 s
  • British Columbia
  • BC1-EN-06

A page shows a dog digging with the words "The dog can dig.", but we first read the last word as "dog". The three questions show it is wrong (an i, not an o; it does not sound like the way we talk; the picture shows digging), and after we look again and read "dig", all three red crosses turn into green ticks.

Concept: Checking your reading: does it look right, sound right and make sense?

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In one sentence

The question this lesson answers

Here is a dog. Let's read the words.

We read: The dog can dog. Is that right?

Transcript

What the lesson says

Here is a dog. Let's read the words.

We read: The dog can dog. Is that right?

Let's check it with three questions.

Does it look right? Look at the letters.

No! This word has an i, not an o.

Does it sound right? The dog can dog? No!

Does it make sense? No! The dog is digging.

Uh-oh. Let's look again and fix it.

The word is dig. The dog can dig!

Yes! It looks right, sounds right and makes sense.

Always ask: does it look right, sound right, make sense?

Curriculum

Where this fits

British Columbia, Grade 1

English Language Arts, Strategies and processes: reading strategiesBC1-EN-06

Previous: Word Families: Change the First Letter, Read a New WordNext: Make Your Writing Better: Read It Again, Add, Fix

The outcomes and strands follow the British Columbia curriculum.

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