Our school follows the Science of Reading to help your child learn to read.  Here are some ways you can help partner with these practices. 

Your child's weekly homework sheet will ask you to read with your child for 15 minutes each night.  Research shows that if you partner read with your child, this is the best bang for your buck with time.  If you could kindly commit to reading with your child every night for 15 minutes this will pay off.  You can read any book you have purchased or borrowed from the library to your child.  As the year progresses, I will send home books that we call decodable readers that your child has practiced and can decode all of the words for.  I ask you to save these books and choose some for your child to read to you during this time as well.  A healthy balance of both reading would be perfect and SO helpful.  What matters is that your child is engaged with books every night at home. This homework sheet will be used for me to determine who earns the Mark's Pizza Coupon every month as well!  

This weekly homework sheet will also occasionally highlight other reading skills that your child could use some repeated practice with.  One of these things will be practicing Tricky Words we cannot sound out due to English language rules that are tricky and unexpected.  In first grade, we work towards memorizing 3 lists throughout the year.