Lost Your Reading Log? No Worries!!
If you forgot your Accelerated Reader Reading Log in class, don't worry! Click on the link below to open and print. Remember, you need to read at least 20 minutes a night and have your parents sign your log each day for credit. All Reading Logs are due every Friday and should be placed in your O.W.L. Binders under the tab Reading Log. Look for your grade's Reading Log below.
Grades 1-2 Reading Log
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Grades 3-5 REading Log
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Why Should I Have My Child Read Every Night?
Dear Parents,
Research has shown that the best way to improve reading skills is simply to READ more! Please make sure your child reads at least 2 hours a week at home. You can divide this into six 20-minute sessions, four 30-minute
sessions, or whatever works for your family. As your child reads, they are to record their thoughts, feelings, questions and ideas about the section read into their reading logs. When your child has accumulated 120 minutes of reading time, have them turn the reading log in to me. I will pass out weekly reading logs each Monday, and I need each log for the week to be turned in no later than the following Monday morning. You may have your child read independently, or your may read aloud to your child. Some children enjoy taking turns reading aloud
with a parent. Include time where your child can read aloud to a younger brother or sister. Below is a link to a scenario comparing two students’ reading development- one who reads 20 minutes a day, and the other who does not read at all or skips their 20 minutes of reading.
Mrs. Wanstrath
Research has shown that the best way to improve reading skills is simply to READ more! Please make sure your child reads at least 2 hours a week at home. You can divide this into six 20-minute sessions, four 30-minute
sessions, or whatever works for your family. As your child reads, they are to record their thoughts, feelings, questions and ideas about the section read into their reading logs. When your child has accumulated 120 minutes of reading time, have them turn the reading log in to me. I will pass out weekly reading logs each Monday, and I need each log for the week to be turned in no later than the following Monday morning. You may have your child read independently, or your may read aloud to your child. Some children enjoy taking turns reading aloud
with a parent. Include time where your child can read aloud to a younger brother or sister. Below is a link to a scenario comparing two students’ reading development- one who reads 20 minutes a day, and the other who does not read at all or skips their 20 minutes of reading.
Mrs. Wanstrath
Why Can't I Skip My 20 Minutes of Reading Tonight?
LET'S FIGURE IT OUT ---
MATHEMATICALLY!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1:
Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5
times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week =
20 minutes
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each
month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten
whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school
days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain
these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school
days
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and
so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel
about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school....and in
life?
WHY READ 30 MINUTES A DAY?
*If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been
fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!
*Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and the child's hungry mind lose 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories.
*A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment.
*Therefore...30 minutes daily = 900 hours
30 minutes weekly = 130 hours
Less than 30 minutes weekly = 60 hours
Guess you now understand why reading daily is so very important. Why not have family night reading? It is great to just shut off the television for 20-30 minutes and read... and share.
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, America Reads Challenge. (1999)
"Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader."
Washington, D.C.)
MATHEMATICALLY!
Student A reads 20 minutes five nights of every week;
Student B reads only 4 minutes a night...or not at all!
Step 1:
Multiply minutes a night x 5 times each week.
Student A reads 20 min. x 5
times a week = 100 mins./week
Student B reads 4 minutes x 5 times a week =
20 minutes
Step 2: Multiply minutes a week x 4 weeks each
month.
Student A reads 400 minutes a month.
Student B reads 80 minutes a month.
Step 3: Multiply minutes a month x 9 months/school year
Student A reads 3600 min. in a school year.
Student B reads 720 min. in a school year.
Student A practices reading the equivalent of ten
whole school days a year.
Student B gets the equivalent of only two school
days of reading practice.
By the end of 6th grade if Student A and Student B maintain
these same reading habits,
Student A will have read the equivalent of 60 whole school
days
Student B will have read the equivalent of only 12 school days.
One would expect the gap of information retained will have widened considerably and
so, undoubtedly, will school performance. How do you think Student B will feel
about him/herself as a student?
Some questions to ponder:
Which student would you expect to read better?
Which student would you expect to know more?
Which student would you expect to write better?
Which student would you expect to have a better vocabulary?
Which student would you expect to be more successful in school....and in
life?
WHY READ 30 MINUTES A DAY?
*If daily reading begins in infancy, by the time the child is five years old, he or she has been
fed roughly 900 hours of brain food!
*Reduce that experience to just 30 minutes a week, and the child's hungry mind lose 770 hours of nursery rhymes, fairy tales, and stories.
*A kindergarten student who has not been read aloud to could enter school with less than 60 hours of literacy nutrition. No teacher, no matter how talented, can make up for those lost hours of mental nourishment.
*Therefore...30 minutes daily = 900 hours
30 minutes weekly = 130 hours
Less than 30 minutes weekly = 60 hours
Guess you now understand why reading daily is so very important. Why not have family night reading? It is great to just shut off the television for 20-30 minutes and read... and share.
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Education, America Reads Challenge. (1999)
"Start Early, Finish Strong: How to Help Every Child Become a Reader."
Washington, D.C.)