Dear
Parents,
Your 5th grade students will be
expected to do independent reading at home this year as part of their homework.
Strong reading skills are crucial to our students being successful. Research
has proven that the best way to improve and increase reading skill and
vocabulary is by voracious reading.
Beginning this week; your child will be involved in a very important
reading program aimed at increasing his or her reading ability by increasing
amount of books read.
The
program is called “Reading Counts” and is a program in which children select a
book to read, read the book, and then answer questions on a computer about that
book. The book they choose is assigned a
particular point level depending on its difficulty and the children earn points
depending on how well they do on the computer test they take. There are over 50,000 books children can
choose from, and the list of books, along with the point levels, can be found
by going to a link on our class website. The amount of points expected may vary
between classrooms and possibly even between students in the same classroom
according to student need. Please be sure to check your child’s class website
or planner for their specific point goals. Reaching their goal will count as a
summative grade for independent reading each quarter.
Sincerely,
The Fifth Grade
Teachers
Link to take a quiz:
Link to look up a book to see if it is on Reading Counts:
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