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Pick Good Fit Books
Pick Good Fit Books
Books that are good fits should meet the following requirements:
- Purpose for reading it
- Interests the child
- Child can understand what they are reading
- Child can retell the story or what they learned
- Child knows most of the words
Reading Logs
Reading Logs
Students have nightly reading expectations set by their teacher and a log to record their minutes. Please look for this and initial each day they read along with the number of minutes.
Read, Read, Read!
Read, Read, Read!
Make sure to read daily with your student! Students can read independently, with an adult, or back and forth with a partner.
Beginning Readers:
Beginning Readers:
- Read words in natural settings - stories, streets, environmental print
- Begin learning sight words quickly and automatically
- Don't immediately tell the child the unknown word: help them sound out the word, break the word into chunks, look for parts of the word they may know, use picture clues to help, try a different vowel (long, short), or read on and then come back to the word
Advanced Readers:
Advanced Readers:
- Notice interesting, new vocabulary words, and make it a challenge to use the word in conversation
- Read with expression and fluency
- Explore nonfiction books and their text features (diagrams, captions, tables, etc.)
- Compare and contrast books and topics
- Explore multiple books by the same author and look for similarities and differences
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