Home Reading Book Package

Your child is reading!  March is Reading Month so it's time to share that with you at home.  This week, we will begin to send home a reading book package.  Inside the book package will be various tools to support your child as a reader and a writer.  There will be sets of books your child has read in the classroom as well as new books to experience at home.  The books will be at your child's independent or instructional reading levels:

An independent reading level is the level at which a child can read a text on his/her own with ease. The child makes hardly any errors when reading the text and has excellent comprehension of the story. The child can read the story alone with confidence.

An instructional reading level is the level at which a child needs the support of a teacher, parent, or tutor. This is the level where students are introduced to new vocabulary and is where the greatest progress in reading occurs. Children are reading with 90-95 percent accuracy or better and possess at least 80 percent comprehension on simple recall questions about the story.

This will be a DAILY homework assignment (even on the weekends!).  Your child becomes a strong reader by reading daily!  Your child should read at least 2 books from the package per night and do some sort of word work or writing with it (more ideas to come).  Re-reading the same book multiple times promotes fluency and greater comprehension, so that is also a goal of this assignment.  You will also complete a Reading Log regarding the work you do.  Once per week you should return the package to school for new books.  This can be any day you like (simply when you are ready for new books!).

Much more information is to come but this weekend you should read and discuss the Family Reading Contract with your child.  Please have your child sign it, sign it yourself, and return it to school on Monday!

The books used for this assignment are the books I use for instruction with students.  So it is critical that you take care of the books and return them to school (otherwise I am missing instructional materials for future students).

Thank you for your support and I look forward to sharing in this great reading experience with you!