Home Reading Program

The Grade One's have enjoyed the Book Bags.  Thank you very much for working and playing with them! 

It is now time to begin the Individualized Home Reading Program for Grade One.  Each day your child will be bringing home a Leveled Book to read to you.  Please  help him or her read the book to you.  The books are very repetitious and most students will only need a little initial help to read it.  Reread the book at least 2 times.

If your child is in Early Reading Intervention (ERI), he or she will be receiving his or her book from the ERI teacher.  We will let you know if your child will be involved in ERI next week.  This will be in place of the classroom Home Reading Program.  Both programs follow the same procedure however.  At this time ERI hasn’t started yet, but it will start in a few weeks and we will let you know if your child should participate in ERI.  It is an excellent opportunity to help students who need a little more practice and give them a great head start.

I have sent the Leveled book home for your child to read to you.  He or she should be quite capable of reading the book fluently with a little assistance from you. Make sure to read the book with your child, sign the sheet in the bag and send the sheet, bag and book back tomorrow.  If they do not bring their book back or it is not signed that they read it to an adult, I will not send a new book with them.  I realize that you will miss a few nights because we are all busy but try not to miss very often.

Initially, I should be able to listen to all the students read each day.  However, as the Leveled books become longer I will only be listening to 3-5 students read each day.  If your child doesn’t bring a book home it is because I never listened to him or her read.  Just read a book from home that night instead!

When your child has reached mastery on 5 consecutive books at Level Three etc.  I will send a note in the agenda informing you that he or she has moved to the next level of books.  For some children, this will happen quickly while others will take longer to move through the levels.  Please remember that this is an individualized reading program, which moves each child through the levels at his or her own pace.  As the levels become more difficult, it will take longer for the children to achieve mastery.

So, please review the books with your child, as this will help them recognize sight words and use his or her phonetic skills to sound out words.

If you have any questions, please contact me.

HAVE FUN LEARNING TO READ!

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