Each month your child will bring home a letter stating what they are working on in their flexible reading group. Please look it over and if you have any questions, feel free to contact their reading teacher.
Dear Parents;
Our reading group has been working very hard at becoming better readers this month. The reading curriculum is becoming increasingly difficult as the students are being required to learn more words, answer more in-depth comprehension questions, and learn information about many non-fiction subjects. We are diligently working through units at a fast pace, finishing one a week.
During class we worked on the sounds ‘N as in Nest’, ‘T as in Turkey’, ‘W as in wind’, ‘I as in Insect’, and ‘TH as in The’ , as well as sight words and tricky words your child sees in everyday reading.
Sight/Pattern words: can, can’t, weeds, hiss, hit, miss, and, him, mad, that, this, etc.
Tricky words: a, has, his, I the, said, is, was, with
The story elements we worked on were character, setting, text structure, and topic. The comprehension strategies we worked on were building knowledge, making connections, predicting, and inferring.
Your child has brought homework home the last few weeks and will continue to do so each week we start a new reading lesson. Please practice each night on this reading, and sign the paper for each time you practice. Then, please return the homework to school on the due date. Your child receives a prize for completing and returning their reading homework.
Some reading students will also come home with a book bag from the reading room. If they do, read the story to them or with them or listen to them read to you. Then sign the paper in the bag and return it to school. Your child will get a sticker for each returned book bag and after 10 stickers, get a prize.
Finally, some students are working on book reports in addition to the regular reading curriculum. October’s was due on the 30th. Attached is November’s book report.
If you have any questions about reading, feel free to contact me about it anytime at aclark@lwsd.org. J
Sincerely,
Amanda Clark