Dear families,
I just wanted to give you an update about our Reading Recovery lessons. First of all, I want to
thank you for making it a priority to read with your child each night and return the book bags to
school each day. This re-reading of familiar books gives students the opportunity to apply and
solidify the reading strategies they learn in our lessons. It also helps build confidence, fluency
and comprehension. Remember to praise, praise, praise your child for his or her efforts.
Starting this week I will be enclosing the following homework activity to be completed each
night. In your child’s book bag you will find:
• An envelope with a cut up sentence.
• A notebook.
• Two or more familiar books for your child to read.
Sentence work:
• Listen to your child read the sentence that I have printed on the envelope. If he or she
has forgotten the sentence, tell your child the sentence and have your child repeat it.
This sentence was part of our lesson and came from your child’s vocabulary.
• Ask your child to put the cut up pieces back into the correct order. This can be done
with or without the envelope as a guide (depending on your child’s confidence level).
• After the sentence is put back together, ask your child to check it against the sentence
on the envelope and read it to you.
• If a word is underlined, please have your child practice writing the word about four
times on scrap paper (this does not need to be returned).
• Finally, have your child glue the sentence into the enclosed notebook. The notebook will
go back and forth from home to school each day in your child’s book bag.
Book Reading:
• Please listen to your child read his or her books. These are books that have been read
during our lesson and should be familiar.
• In addition to reading together the little books that I send home, I encourage you to
make a habit of reading stories aloud to your child every night. This not only provides a
model of fluent reading, but it also instills the idea that reading is a positive and
enjoyable activity.
Thank you for your support,
Mrs. Noble
freda.noble@lz95.org