Welcome to the Library!
Welcome Back to School!
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*Then stop by the library to pick up your reward!
Don’t forget to bring your reading log with you to get your prize!
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Literacy Celebration 2010
September 1st-15th
The library is proud to present “Literacy Celebration 2010”. We have guest readers coming in to read in your classrooms during this two week period. We hope that you will invite your students’ parents to come in also. There will be a sign up sheet in the lounge on Thursday, August 26th showing readers’ available times.
In addition, we will be challenging all our students to a Readathon. The Readathon runs from Sept. 1st -15th. Our goal this year is to read 250,000 minutes by the 15th of September. Our principals will be rewarding the students with a cool stunt if we can make 250,000 minutes of reading by Sept. 15th.
To cap it all off, we’ll be having a Rockin’ Sock Hop on the afternoon of Sept. 17th during each grade level’s afternoon recess. Kick off your shoes and boogie down in the gym with us!
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Try out our new BookFlix and TumbleBooks Subscriptions
See Below for More Information!
Try our new Scholastic Bookflix with your students! There are lots of fun stories to read or to listen to aloud.
Check out the link below to get to BookFlix!
BookFlix Link (bkflix.grolier.com)
Your username is: enchanted
Your password is: bookflix
The library has also subscribed to TumbleBooks--an online book subscription. You can find loads of fun books to listen to or read aloud.
Just go to : http://www.tumblebooks.com/library/asp/customer_login.asp
Your username is: rrps
Your password is: books
Be A Reading Hero at our Fall Book Fair!
Join us for the Fall 2010 Book Fair in October! Call Mrs. Bigelow at 891-8526 x517 or email at nbigelow@rrps.net to volunteer. Our theme for the fall will be Heroes! Thanks so much!
Land of Enchantment Book Challenge
**Stop by the library and pick up a copy of the 2010-2011 Reading list for the Land of Enchantment Book Club! LOE (Land of Enchantment) will be starting soon! See Mrs. Bigelow for information---Thanks!
EHE Celebrates Dr. Seuss and Reading!
We had a great time with our Readathon...as you can see below, we went way over our minutes for reading in February. In return, the library gave our students a free popcorn Friday in April.
Also, the principals kept their promise and wrestled in sumo costumes for the whole school!
Current Total: 347,063 Minutes as of 3/1/10 (minutes our students read during the month of February!)
It's payback time!!! Mrs. Baehr and Mr. Ross promised to Sumo Wrestle if the students read at least 170,000 minutes. The students were so excited that they read 347,000 minutes!!! So on April 16th, our principals wrestled in front of the whole school. A big thank you to Mrs. Baehr and Mr. Ross for being such good sports! You guys rock!!!
Tips to Help Support Your Beginning Reader
1. Provide a consistent time and place to read together. Make it a positive experience so that your child will look forward to your time together.
2. Practice at least three to four nights a week for at least 15 to 20 minutes. The extra practice reading aloud with school materials can help your child read more fluently, accurately, smoothly and with expression.
3. Listen to your child read. This is an effective way to help your child become a better reader. The effort you take to make this an enjoyable time also can help your child have a positive attitude about school.
4. Talk with your child’s teacher. Know what has been assigned for reading homework and help your child keep on task.
5. Have your child bring home his class reader, other class books, and library books so that you can listen to your child read the day’s assigned reading. This can help improve your child’s reading comprehension.
6. Wait before helping your child when he makes a mistake. Sometimes other words in the sentence can help him figure out the unknown word.
7. Praise your child for correcting himself and using clues to figure out words on his own. This will help build your child’s reading confidence.
8. Provide help without telling them the word if they are unsuccessful at first. The more often you listen to your child read, the more his or her reading is likely to improve.
9. Make time to read aloud together often. This can help your child enjoy reading and become more confident about his or her reading. It also improves vocabulary, accuracy, and comprehension.
10. Keep a variety of reading materials available throughout your home. The more your child is exposed to books and reading materials, the more interested he or she will be in learning to read.
Use these strategies to help match
your child to a great read!
- Give lots of choices. There are so many types of,books out there—try exposing your child to as many of them as you can, from fairy tales to mysteries to nonfiction books about gorillas. Cookbooks, magazines, and poetry are also great options. You never know which type of book will turn your child into a lifelong reader!
- Be supportive of your child’s passions. You might not love comic books or thick readers on dinosaurs, but your child might. And kids are much more likely to become lifelong readers if you let them follow their interests.
- Know the 5-finger rule. Have your child open up a potential book to a random page. Each time she comes to a word she doesn’t know, ask her to hold up one finger. If your child is holding up 0 or 1 fingers, the book may be too easy. If she’s holding up 4 or 5 fingers by the end of the page, the book may be too difficult for now, while 2 or 3 fingers signify a “just right” book.
- Read together! Research shows that reading together as a family makes a big difference in students’ skills and interest level. Ask your child lots of questions as you read. If it seems like he isn’t understanding what’s going on or isn’t interested in the story, feel free to put down the book and move on!
- For more resources on reading and learning with your child, visit scholastic.com/parents.
