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Read to Self- Daily Cafe

We have practiced finding a 'just right' spot to read to ourselves. They know to choose a couple of books and they have to read to themselves (reading pics, looking for their special letters, and then rereading it, retelling the story (from their imagination) and we would time each day- getting excited to see how long we could do it for. The max we got in both classes was approx 8 min before someone would talk. This video explains and you could share part of it with them, but I wouldn't expect them to get past 15 minutes, and that may take a few weeks, depending on each child. (She does videos for much longer than 15 minutes, but that would be for older children. They can use real books or the Epic.