[MOSAIC] encouraging reading at home.

[suzie herb]

I have just read Jan's post about the follow up activities that she has the 
children do to demonstrate that they are reading at home.  It seems such an 
authentic way of engaging kids in the process, and this is what our aim 
actually is.  I am going to start this in my classroom next week....I've used 
not a homereading log but a homereading journal.  It requires the kids to 
follow up with their home reading on whatever inclass strategy we are working 
on.  I've taken and adapted many bits and pieces from the mosaic resource list 
to do this.  By focusing on the strategy, it gives the parents an opportunity 
to understand how we are teaching reading and giving them more information 
about the type of things we do in reading.  Sending home a rubric which has to 
be completed by the child with parent supervision is great.  The reading 
fluency rubric from Mosaic was a big hit and a number of kids told me that 
their parents were 'getting it' and understanding more
 about what fluency looked like.  Education with the parents is a big thing, 
educating our kids to engage in the strategies we are teaching is the aim of 
home reading as well as good reading practice.   I think it's a great topic to 
start the school year, on a school wide level but anytime to actually discuss, 
what do we want from home reading?  What can we do to encourage it?  How can it 
look so that we are encouraging not only daily routines but supporting what we 
do daily?  Great post question.


      
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