Reading
By Nathan and Caroline
We have many things to do with reading at your school. One of the things we do most is SSR. Every day at 12:55 we read and write in our school reading logs. Reading logs are journals that we write in either before, after, or in the middle of when we read. In our reading logs we can write connections, inferences, predictions, I wonders, questions, sensory images, and determining importance’s of what we just read.
We also read in science and social studies. Like in science we read about the ocean and different environments. In social studies we read about things from the past and what it was like back then.
Another thing we do is read to our book buddies. Our book buddies are four-year old kindergarteners that we read to once a week. Every month they have a variety of books according to either the closest holiday or what they are mainly learning about.
Every night we have a little bit of reading homework. After we read we have to write 3 to 4 sentences about what we’ve been reading throughout the last 20 minutes of what we read (our home reading logs). Five log entries are due are due each week. On Friday we take home folders that have new logs in them.
We have a system called lit circles as well. It’s were we get into groups of 4 to 5 people that read the same book. Then write a log about what we read during the given number of chapters. Right now we are reading biographies about people like Davy Crockett and Hellen Keller. We do many different things with reading.
