Shared Reading Book

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This is your childs Shared Reading Book. This book will contain poems, songs
and other text forms that the students learn in class through shared reading
opportunities. Please take the time to listen, read along or recite these texts with your
child. It is not an expectation that your child knows how to read all these words.
Shared Reading opportunities within our classroom allow a number of concepts
about print and beginning reading strategies to develop, while at the same time
being a lot of fun!
Your child will bring this book home every Friday to share with you and needs to
be returned every Monday so your child can use it at school and new texts can be
added.
Here are some suggestions to make the most of your Shared Reading Book at
home:
Listen to your child sing the song or recite the poem/text;
Ask your child to point to the title and or ask how many words are in the
title;
Model for your child one-to-one matching by using your finder to point to
each work, reading in a fluent fashion (as if you were talking);
Encourage your child to point to the words as he/she sings/reads;
Ask your child to find a word that beings or ends with a particular letter;
Ask you child to find a word that has 2 or 3 letters in it and to find a
second word with the same number of letters;
Ask your child to find a period, a question mark, or an exclamation point
(an excited mark);
Ask your child to point to the words he/she knows.
We appreciate you taking the time to engage in Shared Reading with your child.
Have fun and remember to always praise your childs efforts! Happy Reading!
Sincerely,
Ms. Moffitt & Ms. Cortes