Dear Parents/Guardians, October 14, 2014
This week, we start our Take-a-Book-Home
Programme.
It means that every student will get a book
from our classroom library to read at home. The book will stay at home for a
week during which students need to read it on a nightly basis.
In class, they have been learning decoding
and comprehending strategies that prepare them for reading independently. I demonstrate
these strategies in class on a daily basis and remind them consistently to use
the strategies during our silent reading sessions. For decoding, students need
to point to the words that they read and sound out the letters, making
syllables; syllables create words. I encourage students to return to the first
letter and reread the word. They also can use pictures to recognize words in
order to read them correctly. Students might choose to read from memory which
is a helpful strategy, as well. However, in class, I always ask them to check
the letters in the word to make sure
that they read it correctly. And double check the picture in that case.
To understand what they read, the pictures
are helpful. Also, they have learnt that they can look for small words within
bigger ones and figure out the meaning that way. In class, I will be teaching
them how to use dictionaries both paper and digital ones.
Your child will get a book on the day of
their Show and Tell presentation and read it back in class a week later. For
example, Johnny's Show and Tell day is Monday, then he will get his book that
day. Next Monday, Johnny needs to bring the book back to class and I will ask
him to read it to me, after which he will get a new book for a week. We will
write Livre in the agendas on the day that the book is due back in class.
Please remind your child to be respectful
to the books and not let younger siblings play with them as the books need to
serve other first graders to come. Also remind your child to return the book to
the classroom library on his/her day.
Your co-operation and support of our
reading programme are highly appreciated.
Thank you,
Mme Volokhova
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