Reading 'The Children of Lir' and building fluency

‘The Children of Lir’ is divided into short chapters and has a beginning, middle and end, like all traditional tales. Sounding out using phonics strategies is our most helpful way to decode unfamiliar words. Searching for a ‘word within a word’ is a useful strategy to comprehend words. Read to the end of the sentence to help to decide the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Re-reading a sentence fluently after decoding helps to make sense of what has been read.