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What is Literacy Library?

    This is a program that provides a just right book for your child to read at home. Just like any other skill to be learned, practice leads to improvement. A reminder, this is meant to be a fun and enjoyable experience for your child. IF it becomes dreaded or avoided by the student, contact the teacher ASAP.

 

How often?

    This program is set up to happen each and every night. Of course schedules may interfere occasionally but the goal is to read the literacy library book each night.

 

Parent's Role?

1. Actively listen to your child read his/her book each night.
2. Refer to the Kid Coach Page for ideas on how to help your child progress during literacy library.
3. Fill out the literacy library monitoring sheet with the correct rating of Easy, Just Right or Too Hard.
4. Contact the teacher with any concerns that arise.

 

Teacher's Role?

1. Ensure that the child is reading the book each night.
2. Monitor the child's reading level and maintain literacy library levels that are appropriate for each student.
3. Communicate with parents any concerns about student participation and progress in this program.

 

Student's Role?

1. Read book each night and return to school each day.
2. Practice decoding and comprehension strategies utilized each day at school.
3. Its practice and not a competition--every book may not result in an "Easy" rating.

 

What should literacy library look like?

Video coming soon.......

 

Comprehension

The goal of literacy library is not only to improve fluency but comprehension as well. Please refer to the      7 keys to comprehension page for some great ideas of what we are looking for with comprehension.

Ask your child to explain what he/she read? After your child tells you about the story, refer to the questions below to evaluate what areas may need some extra work. (We understand some of the earlier levels in literacy library may not provide opportunities to really work on comprehension.)

1. Did my child tell about the characters by name and not generic name?
2. If there was a problem, did my child explain the problem?
3. If the problem had a solution, did my child explain how it was solved?
4. Did my child explain where this story took place?
5. Was my child able to connect events in the story?
6. Did my child put the events in order?
7. Did my child give me a short summary instead of actually retelling the story with lots of detail?
8. If my child missed some of the pieces listed above, could he/she tell me more if I asked him/her to do so?