LR Reading Supplement

Reading Every Day: There are 4 kinds of books to address 4 important building blocks for developing young readers:

1. Read Aloud - parent reads to child

This is a book that has text and vocabulary way beyond the capabilities of the student.

The importance of these readings, which should occur EVERY day, is that it allows children to hear language, to feel the flow

of sentence structure, to hear expressive

reading, and to explore vocabulary. Those are important to include when reading aloud.

2. Non-fiction text - factual information text

This is an important genre to read. It helps students recognize information that is factual

and the basis for scientific thinking. Critical thinking questions help to connect concepts.

3. Read Together - a book that has text and vocabulary that students can partially read but

needs help with maybe 50% of the content on a page.

4. Read Alone - your child can decode most all of the text and can gather information and

content clues through the details of the pictures.

Daily reading time should include all of these formats of reading as much as possible. Developing readers, especially, need the first three the most. Read alone books are most helpful when the student can access and practice their skills independently. When reading 'clicks', children are eager and excited to read alone but still really need the top three building blocks.

In our Classroom assignments, there will be weekly reading assignments much like this week's assignment. The questions may vary, but it will probably end with a writing and illustration project. There will be more to come as we progress.

Questions to ask your child BEFORE reading a book:

- What do you think this book is about?

- Do you think this is a fiction or non-fiction book?

Questions to ask your child WHILE reading a book:

- Where do you think this story takes place? How do you know? (look for details)

- How do you think this character feels? (look at the faces of the characters)

- What do you think will happen next?

- Do you think this is a problem?

Questions to ask your child AFTER reading a book:

- What is your opinion of this book? Did you like it? Not like it? Why?

- What would you do differently if you were the main character?

- How was the problem solved?