December Literacy & Learning News
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From Read Aloud Revival Podcast episode #141
Sarah Mackenzie, the author of the Read Aloud Revival Podcast, recently posted about the benefits of rereading favorite books. She has great suggestions to build children's love of reading.
#1 Books become lifelong companions - to develop that idea of friendship with characters in books children need to reread stories. After all, you don't become best friends with someone after a first meeting.
#2 Better retention of knowledge & vocabulary - as children reread the retention of vocabulary increases!
#3 Improved fluency & comprehension - as children reread they build accuracy (saying all the words correctly) and fluency (expression) which helps children to understand and comprehend better.
#4 Reading past the plot - When we read a book for the first time we just want to know "What happens next?" when we reread we can look to other ideas in the text - characters and theme.
#5 It is a whole different book because the reader is in a different place - As children learn and grow they bring their new experiences and understandings to old favorites and can take new things away when they reread.
Rereading can be another way to help develop a lifelong joy of reading within our children.
Here are some great lists of gift books for the holidays!
Great lists of gift books for all readers!
Great lists of books for girls!
Great list of books for boys!
Parent Book Club Discussion
Title 1 Corner
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One of the Family and Community Engagement goals is to strengthen our partnership between families and the school community.
Parent survey results from MP Spring Family Night
Jill Puhlmann-Becker, Reading Specialist RASD
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