Home Reading
BEGINS IN OCTOBER
Each week, your child will bring home his/her Home Reading bag which contains books and a reading log. The goal is for your child to read the books to a family member. It is the job of the family member to fill out the title of the book and sign the reading log. Your child will keep track of how many books he/she reads on a sticker chart. Each time a chart is filled, your child will receive a small reward.
YOUR CHILD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGING THEIR HOME READING BOOKS
The Home Reading program is designed to create a love of reading, improve children's fluency and comprehension, and to encourage positive interaction between child and parent. Each student is assessed and will bring home books that are "just right" for their level. Students may also bring home books that they have authored at Writer's Workshop. As you listen to your child read, talk about what is happening in the story. Discuss the pictures. Ask them about the characters, the setting and what they think might happen next.
As students learn to read, they build a variety of reading strategies. They may use the pictures to give them clues about the text. They recognize words automatically because they have seen the word often enough to become "sight words." They use their ability to match letter sounds with the letters in the word. They use their prior knowledge of the English language to make the text make sense. Students may also skip a word and come back to it. We will be working on these strategies throughout the year.
Each week, your child will bring home his/her Home Reading bag which contains books and a reading log. The goal is for your child to read the books to a family member. It is the job of the family member to fill out the title of the book and sign the reading log. Your child will keep track of how many books he/she reads on a sticker chart. Each time a chart is filled, your child will receive a small reward.
YOUR CHILD IS RESPONSIBLE FOR CHANGING THEIR HOME READING BOOKS
The Home Reading program is designed to create a love of reading, improve children's fluency and comprehension, and to encourage positive interaction between child and parent. Each student is assessed and will bring home books that are "just right" for their level. Students may also bring home books that they have authored at Writer's Workshop. As you listen to your child read, talk about what is happening in the story. Discuss the pictures. Ask them about the characters, the setting and what they think might happen next.
As students learn to read, they build a variety of reading strategies. They may use the pictures to give them clues about the text. They recognize words automatically because they have seen the word often enough to become "sight words." They use their ability to match letter sounds with the letters in the word. They use their prior knowledge of the English language to make the text make sense. Students may also skip a word and come back to it. We will be working on these strategies throughout the year.