We launched our home-reading program last week. Thank you to everyone for remembering to listen to your child read daily and return the book bags to school each day. Such reading programs are typical in most primary grades and promote daily reading practise of appropriately levelled reading materials. The books are selected so that they are not too hard and not too easy, and should provide opportunity to practise strategies for unknown words. If you feel the book your child brings home is unduly difficult or much too easy, please let me know. When your child is stuck, have him/her: 1. Say the first sound of the unknown word and reread starting at the beginning of the sentence, then 2. Sound it out / Stretch it out, then 3. Skip the word to finish the sentence and come back to it. Students are expected to read the provided book out loud each day and have an adult record that they have done so. Multiple readings of the same book are encouraged to promote confidence and mastery. I understand families are busy and there may be nights when you just don’t have time to read, please be sure that the book is returned to school anyway as we will be using it at school on a daily basis.
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