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Raz-Kids

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Thank you for making time to attend our parent teacher conferences. Your support at home is so important to your child’s reading success. Screen Shot 2012-10-25 at 1.56.18 PMAs we discussed at conferences, please encourage your child to use the Raz-Kids website. This subscription has been paid for by our wonderful Parent Club and offers leveled ebooks for your child to read at home. The best benefit of this website is that the books are at your child’s independent reading level. Raz-Kids provides options for listening to books, reading books and also taking quizzes to check comprehension. For busy families, this is a great place to access books for your child. Along with reading WEB books and library books together, Raz-Kids can provide important reading practice.

Happy reading!

3 Ways to Help

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images-1Your child has made tremendous progress this year. However, that hard work can be forgotten over the summer without frequent practice. Here are three ways that you can help your child maintain skills this summer.

1. Private one-on-one tutoring

This is an excellent way to help your child practice skills that have been learned this year. Fortunately, there are fabulous teachers at Georgetown that are providing private tutoring. Contact them soon, so that you have this support in place for the summer.

Katie O’Rourke – korourk@hpseagles.net (Reading & Math, K-5)

Jen Stutz – jstutz1@hpseagles.net (Reading & Math, K-5)

Terri Hagberg – thagber@hpseagles.net (Reading & Math, K-5)

Heather Field – fieldh@westottawa.net (Reading & Math, K-2)

Mackenzie Yankee – myankee@hpseagles.net (Reading & Math, K-2)

2. Open Library at Georgetown School

Our school library will be open on Tuesdays throughout June and July (10:00-12:00). We will have leveled books available as well as regular library books. Classroom teachers will be there to help your child find some great books.

3. Raz-Kids.com

This online reading website will be available for your child to use throughout the summer. This program, paid for by our wonderful Parent Club, provides leveled books that your child can listen to and read. There are also online rewards that your child can earn by completing comprehension quizzes on books that have been read.

Encourage your child to read every day. Continuous practice grows confident readers!!!

Reassessment Time

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Students are starting to make some great gains in their reading and it is time for me to reassess! Next week, I will not meet with students in their groups. Instead, I will see each child individually to check their reading growth. I will assess their decoding (reading words accurately), their use of varied strategies when they encounter unknown words, and their comprehension as they retell story details. This assessment information will help to guide my reading instruction. I am looking forward to this one-on-one time with my students! You are welcome to email me if you would like more information on your child’s progress.

In the meantime, please continue to encourage your child’s reading at home. Library books, WEB books, and Raz-Kids are all great options for daily reading practice. Thank you so much for your valuable help at home. You are an important part of your child’s continued success.

Have fun reading!

Reassessment Time

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Students are starting to make some great gains in their reading and it is time for me to reassess! Next week, I will not meet with students in their groups. Instead, I will see each child individually to check their reading growth. I will assess their decoding (reading words accurately), their use of varied strategies when they encounter unknown words, and their comprehension as they retell story details. This assessment information will help to guide my reading instruction. I am looking forward to this one-on-one time with my students! You are welcome to email me if you would like more information on your child’s progress at this time.

In the meantime, please continue to encourage your child’s reading at home. Library books, WEB books, and Raz-Kids are all great options for daily reading practice. As an important note: Raz-Kids recently changed their mobile device access to allow only classrooms which have both a Reading a-z account and Raz-Kids (Georgetown doesn’t have both). Fortunately, our students can still use Raz-Kids from a desktop or laptop computer. Thank you so much for your invaluable help at home. You are an important part of your child’s continued success.

Have fun reading!

Student Progress

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Hello parents! Next week, I will be assessing all of my students’ reading progress. I will meet with children one at a time, so we will not be meeting for reading groups. Students will have an opportunity to demonstrate how they apply strategies when they are stuck on tricky words (decoding), how they read smoothly (fluency), and how they retell the story after they are done reading (comprehension). This time is so valuable because helps me determine what specific instruction they need next to become better readers. During this one-on-one time, I will also show students their recent progress. I feel that it is important to include readers in understanding their own reading growth, as well as discussing their reading strengths and their areas for improvement. When students have a targeted learning goal, they can be more purposeful while reading. I won’t be sending home progress notes at this time. However, if you would like to know more about your child’s reading progress since our conference time in November, you are welcome to email me.

Please continue reading with your child every night at home. Along with reading his/her WEB book, your child can reread the books that have come home from my reading group or he/she can read the leveled books available on Raz-Kids. Spending just 15 minutes a night on reading will have huge benefits for your child!

Happy reading!