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, and independent reading during our social studies and science content blocks. We will also conduct small, flexible guided reading groups to focus on specific skills at your child’s instructional reading level, and we will hold individual conferences with students to work on individual goals. We have spent a good amount of time in class discussing how to choose a "good fit" book for reading, and why it is important to spend time reading books that are just right - not too easy, not too difficult. Students may bring books home from reading groups if they have a reading assignment. Students will also be able to check out books from our classroom library to bring home to read. The students will be expected to record their nightly reading minutes in their planners. 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.

Use this Scholastic Book Wizard link to check the levels of the books your child is reading. You can look at the back of the books your child brings home in his/her "book bag" from reading group to get an idea of the level that is appropriate for him/her. We use the Guided Reading Level (GRL) system.

Book Adventure: Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning.