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Periodically,
the “Patriot Pride!”, our school newsletter, will be
mailed home. The
first edition was mailed home in mid-August prior to
registration. Copies of it are in our front office for you to pick up.
The newsletter format is changing, so the next edition
will be posted here on our web-site.
Literacy
is Critical:
Parents,
your students’ ability to read (actually “attack” or
“embrace” what they read) is very important in the real
world. So much of
our everyday lives depend on our ability to make sense of the
many forms of information we need to be able to read.
From the morning newspaper, to the reports at work, to
the stories about our world, to the recreational reading we do
for fun, to the financial section of the paper to the sports
section of the paper, on and on and on . . . we MUST READ! What makes reading difficult for many students, and even
adults for that matter, is the fact that many people have not
yet developed “reading strategies” that help us navigate
through the great amount of content that is presented to us
every day. We are
working on helping your students develop their reading
strategies by supporting them in vocabulary development,
writing skills, and graphic organizers, just to name a few.
We encourage you to talk to your student about their
reading skills and help them become better readers.
You can start by considering the following simple
ideas:
1.
Have your student read aloud to you. Listen to what they say and ask them what they think what
they are reading means to them.
2.
Allow your student to read more than one type of text.
For example, reading a menu, a sports page, a business letter,
or a manual is wonderful in helping students see that there is
much more to reading that just textbooks or stories.
3.
Have your student draw a diagram of what they are
reading. Give
them a highlighter and post-it notes to help identify words or
specific pieces in a written piece.
These “tools” to navigate the reading will be
helpful.
Thanks
for your ongoing support of your students in helping them
become better readers. They
need you, and remember, the middle school years are the most
critical of all the school years.
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