Please continue to let them read to themselves, even if they
are not matching word for word. In your groups or whole group
time, continue to model or have kids model with big books,
actually reading the print on each page. They will catch on
and more importantly, they will learn about telling a story
through the print and the pictures (not just the pictures). It
does take a lot of practice. I teach a higher SES group but I
see similar behaviors in that level of kid. Most of them will
not even look at the words unless it is a book they find very
easy so make sure you give them lots of lower books in their
book boxes. Most of my lower kids will lose a few levels over
the summer, too. You have to have faith that it will all click
again when they begin instruction in first grade.

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