This strategy bookmark might be a little contrived with the animal thing, but I liked it. I felt like it reflected what we've been reading this week--basically that there are more strategies out there for understanding words than just going letter-by-letter. We use a lot of these almost without thinking, when we encounter unfamiliar words, and we might forget that these are skills that can really be taught.

I'm taking a Farsi class right now, so it's a foreign language and a foreign alphabet for me. I am still not a fluent reader, and already I find myself using these strategies. Sometimes it feels like that means I'm kind of "faking it"--but if it helps me decode, then hey. I find myself recognizing high-frequency words without really "seeing" the individual letters. Things like that.

Here is a wonderful video I found about prefixes. It is a rap. It's completely ridiculous but maybe you'll like it, too.

For me, it's kind of hard to remember how exactly I learned literacy skills in English, but I find a lot of this stuff makes sense when I think about struggles I've had with other languages. Do any of your foreign language learning experiences come to mind when reading about these strategies?