Welcome to the 3rd 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 for at least twenty minutes. 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:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, by Judy Barrett
The Wonderful World of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
The Trumpet of the Swan, by EB White
Charlotte’s Web, by EB White
The Swiss Family Robinson, by Johann Wyss
Shiloh, series, by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
A Dog’s Life, by Ann M. Martin
Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel DeFoe
The Summer of Riley, by Eve Bunting
The Indian in the Cupboard, by Lynne Reid Banks
Because of Winn-Dixie, by Kate DiCamillo
The Cay, by Theodore Taylor
Sarah, Plain and Tall, by Patricia MacLachlan
Little House on the Prairie series, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
Honus and Me by Dan Gutman
The New Kid on the Block, by Jack Prelutsky
Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein
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