Let’s begin home reading!
This year, students will read in French at home, accumulating points that enable them to travel across Canada and beyond! In this way, we will be combining some of our social studies and science topics with our discussion in class of our home reading goals.
Students are encouraged to read daily, but you and your child together can choose how many times a week you wish to read. Read for approximately 15 minutes. For some children, this may mean reading a book. For others, it may mean reading a chapter in a short novel before the end of the year. For some, it may mean getting through part of a book. A kitchen timer and a bookmark can be your friends!
Once a week, on Wednesdays, students will choose 3 books. Rather than daily, books will be formally exchanged once a week. Children may also read library books, French books from home, or reread books more than once a week.
Each day your child reads at home, he/she/they need(s) to write the date and the title of the book. Then a parent signs beside the entry. I completed an example on the yellow log sheet in your child’s home reading “pochette.” The home reading folder does not need to come to school daily, but choose a safe place at home to keep it! On Wednesdays, we will count how many days your child read that week. One day reading at home = one point. With these points, your child will move across our Canada wall map. If your child reads more than one book, just record one title.
If your child has chosen books that are too easy or too difficult, please write a note to me in the agenda, and I will help guide your child’s choices. Reading at home should be fun, not frustrating! Also, books should provide the opportunity to develop some new vocabulary, so books shouldn’t be too easy all the time either. To begin the year, I will put out my easier books for students.
In summary:
- Reading in French one day = one point
- Accumulate points to travel across Canada
- Write the book title on the Home Reading log
- An adult signs beside the title on the date the book was read
- Have fun reading!
