Getting your child excited about reading
The beginning of the school year centers around creating clear routines and expectations for each of the curricular areas. The children and I have had some extensive discussions about what our routines, behaviors and expectations that center around reading are and how our passions and strengths may shine through the process. Each month I will be posting our class reading goals for you to familiarize yourself with. It is important for you to also continue these discussions with your child at home to ensure successful growth.
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September Reading Goals:
- Creating an independent reading life
- Knowing how to choose "just-right" books
- Looking back on previous reading choices to explore similar genres as well as challenging themselves to be open to new genres of study
- Keeping up with our reading routines and expectations
- Reading only improves with continued practice day in and day out
- Building stamina requires that each child reads their appropriate leveled book for longer stretches of time
- Logging their daily reading each day helps them learn about themselves as readers
- Reading with their "Minds on Fire"
- Knowing what an engaged reader looks like: lost in a book, making connections with the main character whether that is through book to self, book to world or book to book, questioning, envisioning and predicting characters behaviors/motives.
