Please be sure to read at home with your child every night in whatever language you are comfortable with.
Your child will be officially benchmarked this month. See below for more information on the Fountas and Pinnell Text Level Gradient. While you will receive information on your child's reading level, it is not something that is meant to be shared with the students. Reading levels are for teachers to develop differentiated lessons based on students' needs. If you have any questions, please reach out to your child's teacher.
Continue to read your books from the library, the sight word readers, and the guided reading books as well as the books your child borrows from the classroom library!
Some strategies to try at home when you are reading with your child:
Fiction - Retell the story in sequence- beginning, middle, and end. Include characters, setting, problem, and solution.
Non-Fiction - Discuss what you learned from the text. Look at pictures, labeled diagrams, maps, bold words, captions, table of contents, and/or the glossary.
- Use a Reader Finger - Point to words and pictures with your finger.
- Read from left to right.
- Use picture clues.
- Make a picture in your head.
- Make predictions about what will happen next.
- Identify letters and sight words you know.
- Find a little word or chunks of letters to make a sound in your bigger words.
- Blend the sounds to figure out an unknown word.
- Get your mouth ready to make the first sound.
- Read it again.
- Find sentence patterns.
- Look at punctuation marks.
