Home Reading Program

    Home Reading Starts Today!

Check your child’s backpack today (Tuesday October 2^nd) for their first bag of Home Reading.  Any student in our school reading at an independent level A-L will receive 2 levelled books and a reading log in their Home Reading bags.  Teachers have taken the time in September to get to know their students as readers, and have provided our Home Reading Program with appropriate reading levels.  As the year progresses, and your child grows as a reader, each teacher will work to update the reading levels provided for Home Reading. In order to build confidence, we will have students practice at an independent reading level, something they can read confidently on their own. Please take the time to read through the letter together, which will explain the Home Reading Program at our school. 

The Home Reading Program is one component of the broader Literacy Education your children are engaging with both at school and at home.  Repetitive reading of texts at a ‘just right’ independent level helps to build confidence and can increase a student’s reading fluency. Although we recommend that you take some time each evening to read the Home Reading books that your child brings home, please continue to take time to explore a variety of other texts together as well. The experiences of reading more challenging texts together, and more importantly, the conversations surrounding what you’ve read will help to develop your child’s understanding of what they’ve read.

Each Tuesday and Thursday, students can return their Home Reading books inside the bags provided. Please make sure that these books travel to and from school inside the bag provided, as they are stored and sorted separately from our Learning Commons, and classroom Library Books.  If you have questions, comments, or concerns about the Home Reading Program, please reach out to your child’s teacher, or contact the Resource Teacher, Heather Mitschke at hmmitschke@cbe.ab.ca        

Happy Reading!