Welcome to 1st Grade Reading Class!
Research shows that children who have had many experiences with books in their early years will have a greater likelihood of becoming proficient readers. Parents and caregivers can become involved by providing their children with additional literacy experiences.
Children should be reading at home every day. Even if the child can’t read every word in a book, he/she is still practicing reading. Reading is a skill. As with any skill, reading proficiency improves with practice. Children need a great deal of practice reading.
In my classroom, we spend time on reading skills. We read every day, but not nearly enough. It would help tremendously if you would provide a time and place for your child to read at home.
Reading aloud to your child is also very important. Reading aloud improves your child’s attention span and increases her/his vocabulary. It also models to your children the importance of reading. I have listed a few of my favorites to read aloud. Please feel free to send me titles of some of your favorite books to share.
Books to read to your child:
Goodnight, Gorilla, by Peggy Rathmann
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie, (series) by Laura Numeroff
Owl Babies, by Martin Waddell
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt, by Michael Rosen
The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear, by Audrey Wood
Sheep in a Jeep, (series) by Nancy Shaw
Henry and Mudge, (series) by Cynthia Rylant
Poppleton, (series) by Cynthia Rylant
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, by Judith Viorst
Amelia Bedelia, by Peggy Parish
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, by Judy Barrett
James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl
The Wonderful World of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
The Trumpet of the Swan, by EB White
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss
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