Home Reading Program
All students will be bringing home a home reading duotang and a book to read Monday through Thursday night. Students have either chosen a book from their designated book bin in our class or a chapter book that they have chosen from the library. The books that students are bringing home should be at a relatively comfortable level so they don't get frustrated and can practice their reading. They will be challenged in class while doing instructional reading assignments. During the home reading students will be asked to fill in a section of the reading log that relates to our during reading strategies that are being taught in the class. Throughout the year they will be asked to make connections, question, visualize, infer, transform and synthesize text. Reading duotangs are to be handed in on Friday for marking. Consistency reading at home helps students with their reading and writing along with all their academics.
Connections: are when a students reads something and it reminds them of something from their life, from another book or from the world around them. A deep thinking connection includes places, names of people and details.
Questioning: when students are reading sometimes they wonder about things that they have read. A deep thinking question is a question about the text that isn't answered in the reading. The answer usually involves deeper thinking about the text.
Students have been working on making connections in their reading log since October and have just finished their learning on Deep-Thinking questions in class. They are now being expected to make deep-thinking questions to the reading that they are doing at home. We will let you know when we have gotten to our next strategy which will be Visualizing while reading.
Thanks for your continued support for our home reading program.
Mrs. Holm and Ms. Rudolph
Thanks for your continued support for our home reading program.
Mrs. Holm and Ms. Rudolph