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Walnut Grove Media
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"Take a Ride on the Reading Railroad!"
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in second through sixth grades are participating in Scholastic Reading
Counts!, a reading achievement program with a library of thousands of best
loved titles. Walnut Grove's goal is for each student in these grades to
earn at least 100 points for independent reading this year.
The more a child reads, the more a child can achieve. Students have taken the Scholastic Reading Inventory on the Computer which generated a lexile level for each student. Students read a book on their easy/fluent lexile level and then take a quiz over that book on the computer. Students must pass that quiz in order to move on to another book. Each class has their accumulated points posted on the "Take a Ride on the Reading
Railroad" bulletin board in the media center. Walnut Grove's school goal
is 33,000 points. We ended the 2002-2003 school year with a whopping 31,000 points, just short of our goal! Each Thursday students are awarded "Reading Counts Certificates" when they reach
25 point, 50 point, 75 point, 100 point, 125 point, 150 point, 175 point
and 200 point levels. They have their names announced on the intercom and
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TIPS FOR PARENTS
To continue to grow as a reader, encourage your child to :
- read books in the appropriate lexile reading range (from 50 lexiles above to 100 lexiles below the measure indicated on his SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory). If you need a list of books email his teacher.
- select books on different topics, fiction and nonfiction.
- read at least 25 books a year, as well as a selection of newspapers and magazines.
- read for enjoyment and to find information.
- practice reading strategies such as determining cause and effect (asking why or what caused an event to happen), making inferences (using what you know to understand something the book doesn't tell you), and predicting what will happen next in the book.
- ask questions (who, what, when, where, why, how) while reading to understand books.
- relate personal experiences and knowledge to books read to understand the topics presented.
- compare and contrast characters, settings, events, and point of view across books read.
- use the dictionary and context clues such as the sentence or surrounding sentences to define unfamiliar words.
- build vocabulary by reading and discussing books.
- use new vocabulary in conversation and in writing.
- write letters, journal entries, poems, and stories (fiction and nonfiction).
- discuss and write about books read, stating an opinion and supporting it with details from the books.
- evaluate ideas presented in books and articles read.
Encourage your child to read for at least 30 minutes a day and discuss the books your child reads. Your involvement is critical to your child's success.
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