Reading

 Reading

﻿ We will focus on learning new strategies to help us become better readers. Strategies include visualizing, questioning, making inferences, finding the important ideas in what we read and summarizing. Students will work on these skills through modeled, shared, guided and independent reading. We will integrate our reading curriculum called //Making Meaning// into a Reader’s Workshop model. //Making Meaning// incorporates all parts of a balanced literacy program while also teaching students important social skills. Students will be bringing books home that they are reading in school with their reading groups. We will provide plastic folders for them to use to transport their books safely from school to home. The students will be expected to keep a nightly reading log which will be in their homework journals next to the weekly calendars. We ask that parents make sure that their child is reading every night for at least 20 minutes. Nightly reading is essential in your child’s continued growth in reading.   *Finding the right level of book for your child is easy now! Enter the title or author of the book your child is reading and you will be able to find out what level that book is. What we encourage students to do is determine whether or not a book is a "good fit" for them, using criteria such as, "Why do I want to read this book? Does it interest me? Do I understand what is happening? Do I know most of the words?" I would be happy to talk with you individually about the level of books that your child is reading so that you are able to determine whether or not your child is reading a book at home that is an approproate level.   media type="custom" key="7612129"