Our First Graders are Jumping Right into Reading!

Don’t you just love wandering through the bookstore or searching on your Kindle for that “Just Right Book”, one just you can’t wait to curl up with and read?  Once you have devoured the book, you rush out to share it with your friends.  Well-loved books get passed around.

Our First Graders already have a love of books.  They are browsing our new Leveled Libraries for “Just Right Books” and finding a great spot to get lost in the FUN of reading.  They already know the 3 Ways to read a book.  Did you know there were 3 ways to read a book?  They do!  They can read the pictures, read the words or retell the story to themselves.  Reading the pictures and “retelling” the story has them thinking like the readers they are.   More importantly, during” Read to Self” they are building their stamina for reading.  Reading is hard work, even for us.   Think about reading the Newspaper, do you read the Life Style section the same as the Business section?   To become a better reader our students need long stretches of independent reading practice where they are thinking about their reading.  Every day their reading stamina is growing and growing!  I think they are ready for “Reading to Someone” because everyone loves to share a good book with a friend!