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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