Reading

New Reading Record 11/21/11 After 12 weeks of practicing the five traits of a good reader, you are ready to branch out. Continue recording the ideas you gather from your nightly reading in a new way. Use Post-it notes, or what I like to call sticky notes, in place your writing log paper. Use the sticky note to write down your predictions, visualizations, connections, vocabulary words, and inferences. You may use all or only one of these reading traits on your sticky note. You might be a great artist and would rather sketch pictures of your visualizations in the story on your stick note. Or your sticky notes may be filled with connections as you read a book that is filled ideas that you connect with in the world, with other books, or yourself. I challenge you to branch out and try all five traits, but you are not locked into doing one of each. Attatch the sticky note to the page you read when the idea came to you. At the end of each book we will create a Sticky note journal from all of your notes. Essentially your notes will make a book report in the end. You will be creating as you go. As for checking to see that you are reading, I will still ask for a record that you are taking time away from school to read. You will be given a book mark to record you time read and the nights you read. I want you to be honest here. If you can only get 10 minutesnof reading then write that down. But I challenge you to add a little more time the next night.

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In Fifth grade the emphasis is on reading for a lifetime. I strongly encourage students to read for enjoyment everynight and I know that they only way they will be able to do that is if they are read books they truly enjoy, not ones that they are told to read. As a result I have discovered this reading log from a colleague. == == Your child is expected to read at least three nights a week at home. Two days a week we read in-class while I conference with them about the books they are reading. Every quarter students will give a book talk to share about the book they are reading, the level of the book, and who might enjoy it. In addition to the quarterly book talk there is a weekly reading log that is required and turned in every other week. There is a link to a copy of the log at the bottom of the page. Nightly they will be reflecting on the ideas described below. ==

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