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It is important to read aloud to your child daily. Reading and discussing fiction and nonfiction materials with your child that are above their independent reading level (too difficult for them to read by themselves) will promote an understanding of books and a lifelong love of reading.
It is important to read aloud to your child daily. Reading and discussing fiction and nonfiction materials with your child that are above their independent reading level (too difficult for them to read by themselves) will promote an understanding of books and a lifelong love of reading.
Fabulous Four Friends
Fabulous Four Friends
Fabulous Four Friends Finger Puppets
At Proctor, we use the Fab Four reading strategies beginning in kindergarten and lasting through fifth grade. Good readers naturally use all four reading strategies every time they read. For kindergarteners, it is wonderful to introduce these strategies by helping them pretend to be the different Fab Four Friends.
Paula Predictor Paula tells what she thinks might happen next in the story or after the story is over. Paula predicts things based on what has already happened and things that are believable.
Help your child be Paula Predictor by looking at the cover and/or pictures and completing one on more of the following sentences:
I predict...because...
I think...will happen because...
I think I will learn...because...
Clara Clarifier Clara figures out unknown information and words in the story. She chops up words looking for sounds she knows and she rereads sentences that do not make sense to her.
Help your child be Clara Clarifier by using these sentence prompts to make sense of reading.
• I don’t understand..., so I...
A word that I don’t understand is..., so I..., to figure it out.
Sammy Summarizer Sammy loves to retell the important events in stories in order often using a "five finger retell" (Characters, setting, beginning, middle and end).
Help your child be Sammy Summarizer.
This was about...
First...Next...Then...Finally...
Quincy Questioner Quincy asks questions before, after and while he is reading a story.
Help your child be Quincy Questioner.
Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?
I wonder...
Book Talks with Proctor Teachers
Book Talks with Proctor Teachers
A Bargain for Frances (Ms. D'Antonio)
And Then It's Spring (Ms. Perez)
The Best Nest (Mrs. Stalcup)
Did You Take My Hat? (Ms. D'Antonio)
The Foot Book (Ms. D'Antonio)
Franklin Is Lost (Mrs.Creedon)
Giraffes Can't Dance (Mrs. Creedon)
Go, Dog. Go! (Mrs. Stalcup)
The Good Egg (Mrs. Stalcup)
I Broke My Trunk (Mrs. Stalcup)
Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! (Mrs. Creedon)
My Friend is Sad (Mrs. Stalcup)
The Most Magnificent Thing (Mrs. Stalcup)
Over The Rainbow (Ms. Perez)
Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog (Mrs. Stalcup)
Red is Best (Mrs. Creedon)
Stellaluna (Mimi...Mrs. Stalcup's mom)
The Tale of Peter Rabbit (Diego...Ms. Perez's son)
The Three Bears (Ms. D'Antonio)
10 Things I Can Do To Help My World (Ms. Perez)
Too Loud Lily (Mrs. Creedon)
A Tree Is Nice (Ms. Perez)
Up In The Tree (Ms. Perez)
Book Report Forms
Book Report Forms
Click here to print a book report form. You may also create your own. Talking, writing and drawing about books helps your child comprehend what he or she read. Completing a book report is a great independent study activity.
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