Today I sent home books with your child (the books are in their black take home bag). These are the home reading books. There should be 5 books in the bag (sometimes it might be more or less, depending on the length of the books). The books are for all week.
Please assist your child with the reading; help them sound out, encourage them to track the words with their finger, get them to look at the pictures (the pictures help the child figure out the words). Please don't read the books to your child (it's OK to read it once to them to get them started, but they are expected to read to you).
Also in the black bag is a Home Reading Log book for you to record the title of the book and how many minutes your child read each night (the goal is just 5 or 10 minutes every night).
If they finish all of the books, please get them to re-read them to you, this helps them with fluency and recognizing words by sight rather than always having to sound them out.
Your child will select new books every Monday (please keep the books and the paper Log book in the black bag).
Due to varied abilities, students may be on different levels. Level "A" books are “pattern” stories, where a phrase is repeated on each page. Level "B" books are similar, but a little bit harder, where the pattern may vary from page to page or more words are in each sentence.
If you would like to level your books at home, there is an app called "Literacy Leveler" in the app store which allows you to scan the ISBN bar code or manually type it in and it will give you an estimated level of the book (it's not perfect but works sometimes).
Below is an info graphic which shows you the benchmarks for each grade.
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