Home Reading Program

Home Reading Program

Every Tuesday and Thursday, your child will come home with a book from our Home Reading Library to share with you. Please fill in the home reading log after your child has read to you and return their log and their book in their zip lock bag to school.

Before reading any words in the book, it is a great idea to first do a Picture Walk together.  This should include looking at the title of the book, predicting what the book may be about and then looking at all the pictures in the book.  Encourage your child to be a detective and look at all the pictures for clues about the story. This is a great time to also point out vocabulary words that may be in the story.

Reading with your child can be done in a variety of ways.  Here are some examples, of what this sharing may look like:

1. You may read the book to your child while he/she listens.

2. You and your child may read together:
* Choral reading (parent and child read in unison).
* Echo reading (parent reads aloud one line at a time and the child reads the same line immediately afterward).

3. Your child may read to you:
* She/he may look at the story pictures and tell the story in his/her own words.
* She/he may read the text independently, needing help occasionally.

If your child is reading independently but gets stuck on a word let your child try to read it, encouraging predicting from the context and the sound of the first letter. Also, have your child look at the picture for a clue to the word.

Our goal is to encourage the children to see themselves as readers and to allow them to increase their confidence in their reading skills.  Some children might be already reading the words, where some of us will be reading by memory and that's ok.  Please don't point out mistakes but rather encouraging their success and efforts.  Encourage the children to read to their siblings (older and younger), grandparents, the dog etc....We want them to LOVE to read.  

Thanks for your cooperation and support with our Home Reading Program.

Warm regards,
Mrs. Lai