Around the Block
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What's Inside
Around the Block gives children practice with rereading, fluency, and self-correction. These skills help early readers move from sounding out words to reading smoothly and making sense of what they read.
The book invites children to think about the meaning of each sentence, notice word parts, and fix mistakes as they read. It supports readers who are working toward more independent reading at Level H.
Use this book with children who are ready to reread familiar text and build confidence with word solving.
Teaching & Discussion Guide
Use this guide to turn Around the Block into a mini reading lesson at home or in the classroom.
Concepts & skills practiced
- Level H reading
- Rereading for accuracy and fluency
- Self-correcting while reading
- Using sentence meaning and word structure
- Reading with expression
- Decoding words with rimes and chunks
Discussion Questions
- 1 What do you think the phrase around the block tells us about where this book will go?
- 2 What clues in the words help a reader keep reading smoothly and make sense of the sentence?
- 3 Why might a reader need to go back and reread a word in this book?
- 4 What does it mean to read with expression, and how could that help this story sound better?
- 5 How can a reader check if a word they read makes sense in the sentence?
- 6 What parts of this book would help a child practice reading the same text more than once?
Words to Learn
- fluency
- Reading smoothly, quickly, and with good expression.
- reread
- To read something again to make sure it is right.
- accuracy
- Getting the words right when you read.
- expression
- Using your voice to show how the words feel.
- self-correct
- To notice a mistake and fix it while reading.
- meaning
- What the words and sentences are trying to say.
- rime
- A part of a word that sounds the same in several words.
- chunk
- A small part of a word that a reader can look at together.
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