Reading is Thinking!

By now students should have brought home their reading folder with their reading log inside. This is how they will track what they are reading independently. As I tell them in class, since they will be doing their independent reading in their head this is how they show me what they are thinking while reading. They will also keep track of their 30 chapter books in this folder. These logs will change as the year goes on. Today students are to start practicing predicting and questioning while reading. You should see post it notes (or sticky notes as we call them in class) in their books showing what they are thinking. I call these reading tools needed to help them do a good job reading. We will be adding more to our tools in the next weeks. Ask your child what they are reading and thinking about in their book.