Willow Weekly
January 2, 2022
Road Trip Reading Rally Kicks Off
Research shows that the more students read, the more connections are made in the brain, which opens the pathways for vocabulary development and greater comprehension. Fluency is increased as students practice, which also supports their ability to make sense of what they read. Students need to read at home at least 20 minutes a day (30 minutes for 3rd-5th). While our youngest students obviously need parents to read with them, our older students also benefit from parent influence, whether that is checking on their reading progress, getting updates on plot lines, reading the same book with them and chatting about it in the car, or reading aloud with them.
Our Road Trip Reading Rally is designed to incentivize the students with recognition and a weekly raffle for those students who meet their personalized reading goals, so encourage your students to meet that goal by each Friday! This will start tomorrow.
On February 2, we will have a school wide Camp Read-a-Lot where everything will revolve around making time to read together, in small groups and independently. We will have celebrity read-alouds and guest readers and hope to make it really cozy and fun, while sharing the love of reading with everyone!
March Madness will have students voting for their favorite books from a list Mr. Jenkins created. Teachers will be making these books available between now and February 28, when our students will start the voting, but you can also encourage your child to check them out!
This is all in addition to what the teachers are doing daily to encourage and support reading, which we know is the biggest indicator of student success in middle and high school. Please join us with great excitement and enthusiasm to help build up the buy-in for your child.