Dear Parents,

Our Kindergarten thru 12th grade

students will be participating in

our summer reading program. The program is in partnership with the

Grafton Public Library.

Students should log their summer reading minutes using the Grafton Summer Reading Challenge Google online form or on the reading log that is attached. We will track student progress for summer reading minutes, with incentives for each level.

Summer Reading Club Reading Expectations:

Grade for 2014-15 Minutes per week Total Minutes 4K and Kindergarten At least 50 minutes 550 minutes

Grade 1 At least 75 minutes 825 minutes Grades 2 & 3 At least 100 minutes 1100 minutes

Grades 4 – 8th At least 125 minutes 1375 minutes

Summer Reading Plan:

1. Make a reading goal. Have a stack of books or

a list of books that you want to read this summer.

2. Log your minutes on the Summer Reading Challenge Google form

or just write down the minutes of reading.

3. Log in your minutes and/or turn in your reading logs

by September 12th, 2014.

The attached pages provide information on accessing the Summer

Reading Challenge Log and resources to support your goal.

1,000,000 reading

minutes

1.

2. Check your email weekly during the

summer.

Enter your weekly minutes

and then click the “Submit” box.

3.

Sign in to your Grafton

student Gmail account.

The independent reading level is the level at which your child can read with 95%-100%

accuracy and satisfactory or excellent comprehension. Your child is able to read these

texts with little or no support at all.

Teachers often call books at a child’s independent reading level “Just Right Books.”

Try using the “Five Finger Rule” for just right books. At school we teach students to try

reading a couple pages from a book before checking it out from the library. If they can

count more than 5 unknown words within the first couple of pages (or approximately 100

words), then the text is too challenging to read on their own. It would be appropriate to

read that text with the support of a more experienced reader, or for a more experienced

reader to read that text aloud to the student.

The appropriate Guided Reading Level (A-Z) for your child is provided with the Login /

Password .

Scholastic Parent Support Book Wizard - Scholastic

www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/ Search Scholastic Book Wizard for children's books from all publishers by reading level and grade levels

PBS Kids Free Games and Activities for Literacy Parents Guide to Helping Your Child Be a Great Reader Help Your Child Read With Phonics Barnes & Noble Summer Reading Program Storyteller and Games

Read Aloud Books

Children love to hear adults read to them. It creates a special time between adult and

child. Children can listen to language at a higher level than they can read. Our future 4K

and kindergarten students may document their Read Aloud Book time (when an adult

has read to them) on their reading logs.

The School district of Grafton Reading challenge is in partnership with the U.S.S.

Liberty Memorial Public Library summer reading program. Reading minutes may

be used toward both programs.

U.S.S. Liberty Memorial Public Library www.graftonpubliclibrary.net/

U.S.S. Liberty Memorial Public Library