Students should read for at least 20 minutes a day. A monthly reading calendar will be sent home to help children track their minutes. Students should submit their completed reading calendar at the end of each month.
As your child reads to you, have them use the following strategies to develop reading comprehension skills:
Visualize: I picture in my head the characters, setting, sequence, or a process from the selection.
Make Connections: Sometimes what I read reminds me of something in my own life or something I have read before.
Ask Questions: I ask questions to set a purpose for reading or because I want to learn more about what I am reading. Then, I check to see if my questions have been answered.
Predict: I try to figure out what will happen next based on what I already know, then confirm as I read more.
Summarize: I briefly put the important ideas or main events I read into my own words. If I am not able to do this, then I know to go back and reread the parts I didn't understand or remember.
Monitor & Adjust Reading Speed: I might have to change my reading rate to understand a story or different types of text.
Monitor & Clarify: I check my own understanding as I read. When I don't understand and need to clarify I can decode a word I do not know, use clues to understand the context, or reread.
As your child reads to you, have them use the following strategies to develop reading comprehension skills:
Visualize: I picture in my head the characters, setting, sequence, or a process from the selection.
Make Connections: Sometimes what I read reminds me of something in my own life or something I have read before.
Ask Questions: I ask questions to set a purpose for reading or because I want to learn more about what I am reading. Then, I check to see if my questions have been answered.
Predict: I try to figure out what will happen next based on what I already know, then confirm as I read more.
Summarize: I briefly put the important ideas or main events I read into my own words. If I am not able to do this, then I know to go back and reread the parts I didn't understand or remember.
Monitor & Adjust Reading Speed: I might have to change my reading rate to understand a story or different types of text.
Monitor & Clarify: I check my own understanding as I read. When I don't understand and need to clarify I can decode a word I do not know, use clues to understand the context, or reread.