Tips and Tricks for Reading Each Day:

• Set-up a fun and cozy reading space to enjoy a good book

• Set a specific time each day for reading (during afternoon snack time, after homework, after school activities, before bed, etc..)

• Set a timer for reading! Try to work your student up to at least 30 minutes a day by gradually increasing the time by 2 or 5 minute increments.

• Encourage your student to read with a grown-up, sibling, pet, or stuffed animal

• Have your student talk with a grown-up or sibling about his/her reading once finished

• Pick a family book to read together. This can be a "dessert" book (books that might be higher or lower than his/her current level)

• Alternate reading aloud and in your head

• Find an amazing book series to enjoy!

• Try an audiobook

Tools for Reading:

• Scholastic Book Wizard will help readers to find books around your student's independent reading level, as well as give suggestions for new books, too.

• Epic is an online library of lots of books, learning videos, and audio books. Ask your child's teacher for his/her class code to start enjoying these books.