Point and Read From Betty Lightfoot, a kindergarten and Reading Recovery teacher at Los Ninos Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona: ìI ask my young readers to point to words as they read. Pointing helps them attend to the print and really read. To help my children remember to ëpoint and readí during their guided reading groups, I have them put on a plastic finger with a red fingernail. Stores sell these witchesí fingers around Halloween time. The plastic fingers come in a variety of colors. The children love to put on their plastic fingers and then ëpoint and readí. Sometimes I put happy face stickers on their pointer fingers. Other times we point with chop sticks or coffee stirrers.î