Wow! The students at MNW Elementary have really embraced the challenge to read 1,000 books by Christmas vacation!!! As of today, the total number of books read is 544! That's a lot of bricks on our cafeteria wall! If you haven't had a chance to check out our "Wall of Readers," I hope you get an opportunity to see all the bricks on our wall representing the books students have been busy reading!
By looking at the pictures here, I hope you see the look of pride and satisfaction these kids have on their faces! They truly are excited to read their books and contribute to our reading goal! The construction hats add a little fun to our efforts to build this brick wall! You never know when a brick may fall on your head!!!
While reading all these books, my Guided Reading students have been utilizing their comprehension strategies to better understand their books. Some of the strategies we're practicing are making connections, asking questions, and inferring. Ask your students to sing our chant for INFERRING! Let me know if you have a difficult time getting it out of your head!!!
The Reader Theater plays the students are performing are getting to be quite the productions! We're trying to use good fluency while reading, which helps us to read like we speak. Accuracy, Rate, and Expression are the three goals of good fluency that we work on during our plays. I have encouraged students to bring these plays home to practice and have fun with you while doing it. Your whole family can take on the roles of the characters in the plays and put on a show at home!
Thanks for your support and encouragement of your child's reading! I would like students to read at home as often as possible to apply the reading strategies they are learning in my classroom to their reading for enjoyment at home.
Thanks,
Mrs. Siefken
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