Washing the Dishes
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What's Inside
Help me wash the dishes. Enjoy reading this book over and over again, fluency is the key to reading.
This short book gives children a simple line to read with an adult, again and again. It supports early reading practice, word pointing, and smooth reading of familiar text. It works well for a child who is just starting to read and needs repetition to build confidence. Try reading it with your finger under each word, then read it once more together.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Washing the Dishes into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Beginning reading skills
- Repeated words
- Pointing to words
- High-frequency words
- Fluency
- Reading short text
Discussion Questions
- 1 What do you think the speaker means by asking to wash the dishes together?
- 2 When we read the same line over and over, how does that help a new reader?
- 3 Can you point to the words as I read them with my finger?
- 4 Which words in this book do you think might show up again and again?
- 5 How does reading a short book many times help us read more smoothly?
- 6 What can we do at home to practice a line like this together?
Words to Learn
- wash
- To clean something with water and soap.
- dishes
- Plates, cups, bowls, and other things we use for eating.
- fluency
- Reading smoothly and without stopping too much.
- repeat
- To say or read the same words again.
- point
- To show a word with your finger while reading.
- frequency
- How often something appears or happens.
- sight word
- A word we learn to recognize quickly by looking at it.
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