Library Visits, Ways to Read Books and Good Fit Books

Today we made our first visit to the school library.  Students will be bringing home 5 books to read over the next week.  All 5 books, and Reading Journals, need to be returned the following Wednesday morning.

We have been learning about the 3 ways to read a book:
1) Read the Pictures (allow the child to look at the pictures and tell you what they see, or create a story based on what is happening in the pictures)
2) Read the Words (read all the words, or share your reading with an adult)
3) Retell the story (after someone has read the book to them, they retell it)

Their library books can be read in any of these ways, and then documented in their Reading Journal that is in their library bag.

Today we also talked about Good Fit books, and how your books should fit you. We are in the beginning stages of this lesson, and it is a long process to learn what books fit them but it will happen.  Today we compared how books are like shoes, and need to fit properly in order to help us in the best way.  Books, or shoes, that are way to big only make us stumble and get frustrated.  Again, this is a long lesson that we will practice daily, but I want you to be familiar with the language we are using at school.