Reading 
Your child should be reading at least 20 min. each night. Have them talk about what they have read. Be sure to fill in the Reading Log. Please remember that the reading log is due on the last school day of each month. The log must be filled out completely and initialed by an adult.
Book It! is a national reading incentive program that motivates children to read by rewarding their reading accomplishments with praise, recognition and pizza. During the months of October through March your child will be rewarded for reading each night. If their reading log is filled out completely and signed by a parent or guardian they will receive a Pizza Hut certificate. So please encourage your child to read each night. Reading to them will also count towards their reading goal!
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What Do Good Readers Do?
Why Your Child Should Read for 20 Minutes Every Day Why CanÕt I skip My 20 Minutes of Reading Tonight? LetÕs figure it out Ð Mathematically! Student A reads 20 minutes five nights each week. Student B reads only 4 minutes a nightÉor not at all.
Step 1: Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week Student A reads 20 min. x 5 times a week = 100 min./week Student B reads 4 min. x 5 times a week = 20 min./week Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each month Student A reads 400 minutes a month Student B reads 80 minutes a month Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year Student A reads 3600 min./school year Student B reads 720 min./school year Student A practices reading the equivalent of 10 whole school days a year. Student B gets the equivalent of only 2 school days of reading practice. By the end of 6th grade if Student A and B maintain the same reading habits: Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school days.Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days. One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel about him/herself as a student?
Which would you expect to read better? Which student would you expect to know more? Which student would you expect to write better? Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary? Which student would you expect to be more successful in school Éand in life?
Why Read 30 Minutes a Day? If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been fed roughly 900 hours of brain food! Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and the childÕs hungry mind loses 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories. A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment. ThereforeÉ30 minutes daily = 900 hours 30 minutes weekly = 130 hours Less than 30 minutes weekly = 60 hours Guess you now understand why reading daily is so very important. Why not have family reading night? It is great to just shut off the T.V for 20-30 minutes and readÉand share. Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, America Reads Challenge. 1999. ÒStart Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader.Ó Washington, D.C.
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