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Mrs. Clampitt's Lang. Arts & Reading

Lang. Arts--Spelling words for the week of Nov. 9th are:  echoes, photos, data, scarves, volcanoes, shelves, media, bacteria, wolves, dominoes, solos, thieves, wives, cuffs, staffs, buffaloes, sheriffs, tornadoes, sopranos, loaves, old-fashioned, windshield, question mark, halves, wharves.  The test will be on Friday, as usual.




Reading

Parents - Check out the websites at the end of the page.
Reading Requirements --

14 Fiction and 8 Non Fiction books following the requirement of Genre's will earn the students the Yearly Reading Circle Certificate at our Academic Assembly the last day of school. 

Students may also receive the Lifetime Reading Circle Certificate for completing their Reading Circle every year since first grade.


Reading -
Encourage your child to read for 20 minutes every night.
                                                         Why Your Child Should Read for 20 minutes Every Day???????

"WHY CAN'T I SKIP MY 20 MINUTES OF READING TONIGHT?" 


LET'S FIGURE IT OUT --- MATHEMATICALLY!

Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!

Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week = 20 minutes

Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.

Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.

Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school days of reading practice.

By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain
these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?

Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?

Which student would you expect to know more?

Which student would you expect to write better?

Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?

Which student would you expect to be more successful in school....and in life?

Guess you now understand why reading daily is so very important.  Why not have family night reading?  It is great to just shut off the television for 20-30 minutes and read... and share.

 

Reading