Read-alouds and SSR
By; John and Emma
Do you know how to pick a just right book? Well, if you don’t, we will tell you! If you want to pick a just right book, you would have to read a couple of pages and think, did you get most of the ideas and most of the words? Well if you did that’s a just right book! If you’re reading a book that you get all the ideas and all of the words, then that book is just too easy for you!
Do you know what SSR means? We will tell you! It means sustained silent reading. When our teacher Ms. Kreul says time for SSR we get out our books and read. We read all kinds
Of books like mysteries, fiction, nonfiction, biographies, and autobiographies etc.
About every month, we check fluency with our teacher, we read her a couple pages
Of our book. But first we talk about what the book is about, what your going to
Ead next, and what your reading at home! We our always looking forward to what
We’re reading!
We have reading logs at home and at school. Reading logs are logs that you write about your book. At school when we are finished with our reading logs we share them with our classmates. At home our reading logs are due on Friday. We have to write five entries for our reading logs!
In read aloud we are reading a great book called Coast to Coast With Alice. Read alouds are when our teacher reads to us, and about every two chapters she usually will stop and ask us questions or predictions! After she’s done reading we chat with our table group about the book and what you think will happen next! We always love read alouds and SSR, that’s one of the things we are always looking forward to do each and every day!
