Home Reading

Our class is beginning our take-home reading program next week.  This book should be read nightly until your child feels successful in reading it.  Please make sure you make this a fun and positive experience for your child.  Remember, looking at pictures is part of the beginning reading experience. 

    Also, please remember that this is about your child enjoying reading and feeling successful and confidant.   This should take about 10 minutes each night.  Feel free to supplement these books with your own collection and/or the library.

    When you are ready for a new book, please return the one you have in your child’s backpack and they will trade for another. 

If you have any questions about the reading program, please feel free to email me.

When you begin each book, here are a few things to try:

      Picture walk—Before reading the book, read the title with your child.  Look at the cover and the pictures throughout the book.  Ask your child what they notice and to make predictions and connections with the book.

      Go back to the beginning of the book and read the title together.

      Make sure your child is touching each word as they read.

If your child cannot read a word, here are some strategies:

      Ask your child about the word they said:  Does it look right?  Does it sound right? Does that word make sense?

      See if they are able to recognize sight words.   The sight words in your child’s books should be ones that they have/are learning.  

      See if they are able to recognize a pattern in the text.   Are the words rhymes?  Can they figure out the mystery word by looking for rhyming or pattern clues?

       

Can they recognize the sounds we’ve learned in class?  Focus on the beginning and ending sounds.  This means they will sound it out.