Dear Parents:
Your child has received access to RAZ-
Kids, a reading website that allows students to work independently to: hear fluent
reading modeled, practice reading skills, and to check their own comprehension
by completing questions after they have read the story.
Using the RAZ Kids Reading Program
provides an opportunity for your child to have additional reading practice at
the “just right” independent level. This provides a means of applying reading
strategies they have learned at school when they are reading at home. In addition, to listening and reading the
books, students are able to answer different types of comprehension questions.
(Eg. Sequencing events, identifying main ideas and details, inferring, and
synthesizing information).
Please Note: RAZ-kids
uses an alphabetical levelling system similar to Fountas and Pinnell’s Assessment
Benchmarking System that the teachers at Royal Oak School use to assess your
child’s reading level. Fountas and Pinnell Assessment Benchmarking System is a
diagnostic reading assessment tool, which determines a child’s reading level. However,
the RAZ-kids materials are not directly related to this assessment benchmark.
For example, as the reading level increases, RAZ-kids becomes more discrepant
from the Fountas and Pinnell System we use in class. Therefore, if your child is
bringing home level J books as a part of their home reading books and on the
other hand, be reading at Level K on RAZ kids website. This is due to the
different assessment criteria.
If you have any questions or concerns
about RAZ-kids, please contact your child’s teacher directly.
Sincerely,
Debbie Bradbury
Assistant Principal, Royal Oak School
Parents,
Here is a video with some information around home reading. Please have a look if you are interested:
**Home Reading Update**
- Our Home Reading Program has been running now for a few weeks. Our lunch room supervisors are the wonderful ladies who exchange these books weekly for all students in our school.
- They are currently short-staffed, and at this time are only able to exchange grade 2 books on Thursdays.
- We recommend keeping your books for the full week. Every time your child reads the books, high frequency words become more automatic, fluency improves, and student's confidence improves.
- Have your child bring their book bag back on either Wednesday or Thursday morning.
- Another note: Students are given independent levels to read at home, and work on their instructional level at school. However, if you feel the level that is being sent home is too easy, just let me know! chacraig@cbe.ab.ca 😊
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