Read+Alouds+and+Reading+Logs

Dear Parent(s),

Today your child is bringing home his/her reading log. The reading log is where you and your child keep track of the books, plays, pretend news articles he/she reads each week. The goal each week is to read at least 50 minutes. These minutes can be reach by reading books from home, from the library, from another teacher, and as part of the assigned reading. By doing this, it will help your child reach his/her reading goals for 2nd grade. Please keep this reading log in our child’s folder because we will be having reading homework twice a week, and we will be writing down the homework on the reading log. I will count the minutes up on every Friday.

Starting soon, your child will be bringing home reading homework. We have practiced reading and discussing these books, plays, and pretend news articles together. First, your child will choose at school which books, plays, and pretend news articles he/she wants to practice reading with you, and these choices will go home as homework. Then you and your child will read together, or sometimes you will listen to your child read. (If your child brings home a book or a pretend newspaper article, he/she will read it all to you. If your child brings home a play, you and your child will read it together. In a play, your child will be the highlighted parts.) During this time, your child should be reading smoothly and should use expression when needed. Your child should also be pausing at periods and commas. Next, you need to sign the read aloud papers and make checkmarks on the line of what your child did a fabulous job in while reading with you. Also, please make sure you mark how many minutes it took to read the material and sign that part on the reading log. Finally, your child can answer the comprehension questions over the story. You can assist on that part if needed. The only things that need to be return the next day are the read aloud sheets and the reading log.

If your child brings home extra books, plays, or pretend newspaper articles that we are finished with and it wasn’t assign as homework, he/she may still read them and count them on the reading log. From time to time, I will send out some websites we have covered in class that you and your child may read from and also count on the reading log too. If you have any questions, please contact me. Thanks for helping your child become a better reader. Enjoy the world of reading!

Mrs. Bedford