For the Week of September 21st

Students who have not made the target scores in aimsweb will begin getting extra instruction this week. Parents can help their children at home by sitting beside them as they read aloud. Give the child 3-5 seconds to determine unknown words. If they cannot get the word - give it to them, have them repeat what you said and go on with their reading. This can be done with any text or book as long as they can read the majority of it without you helping them. 4-5 words per page should be the maximum that you have to feed them. Echo reading can also help them to begin to learn to read with expression. You read a sentence and then they try to read the sentence with the same phrasing and expression that you did. It is amazing how just 20-30 minutes a night of this practice will help your child to become a more fluent reader.