Editing Check List
Editing Check List
HUBBARD READING GROUP SKILLS
HUBBARD READING GROUP SKILLS
Encourage multiple strategies:Look at the picture (“What do you see?)
Use contextual clues (“What would make sense?”)
Skip the word and come back to it
Sound out the word
Short Vowel/Long Vowel:Vowels have a short sound and a long sound.
Short A:Apple
Long A:Acorn
Short E:Echo
Long E:Eleven
Short I:Itch
Long I:Ice-cream
Short O:Octopus
Long O:Overalls
Short U:Up
Long U:Unicorn
“Magic ‘e’ Ending”: (Vce)A “Magic ‘e’ Ending” makes the vowel before it say its name.
Example: “Make”, “Fine”, “Drive”
“Two Vowels Walking”:When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking.
Example: “Toad”, “Poem”, “Afraid”
Period:A period is a “full stop.”
Comma:Not a “full stop”, but a “half stop”.
Question Mark:A question mark lets us know someone is asking a question and looking for an answer.
Exclamation Point:Means we say it LOUDLY!
Also, we read it with feeling or emotion
Quotation Marks:“Talking Marks;” Someone in the story is really saying it.
Example: “I like ice-cream,”said John.
I like ice-cream was really said by John.
Said John was not.
Compound Word:Two words put together to make one.
Example: “Playground”, “Into”, “Jumprope”
Contraction:Two words put together to make one, leaving out one or more letters and using an apostrophe.
Examples: “Can’t”, “I’ll”, “Wouldn’t”
Base + Ending:A word with an ending attached.
Example: “Reading”, “Jumped”, “Running”
Sometimes, as in “Running”, the final letter is doubled when adding the ending
Silent Letters:Letters that make no sound (“Pretend they aren’t there.”)
Example: “Write”, “Know”, “Wrong”, “Listen”
Y Saying E/I:Y says “I” or “E” (usually) when it comes at the end of a word.
Example: “I” = “Fly”, “Try”, “My”
Example: “E” = “Story”, “Happy”, “Very”
OU/OW says “Ou”:OU/OW says “Ou” as in “Ouch!”
Example: “Out”, “Shout”, “Ground”
Sight Words:Words that cannot be sounded out.
Example: “Right”, “Would”, “Could”
Exceptions:Words that do not follow the rule.
Example: “Said” (“Two Vowels Walking”)
Example: “Some” (“Magic ‘e’ Ending”)
AR:AR together says the name of the letter R
Example: “Far”, “Dark”
Question Words:Words that ask questions.
“Who”, “What”, “When”, “Where”, “Why”
Uppercase Letters:When to use uppercase/big letters.
1) Beginning of a sentence.
“School is fun.”
2) Name of a person, place or thing.
“I go to The Taipei American School.”
3) The word I.
“Johnny and I played basketball.”
Lowercase Letters:When to use lowercase/small letters.
Every other case except beginning of sentence, name of a person, place or thing or the word I.
