Reading Logs

Developing kids into lifelong readers has always been on my top ten list of teaching goals.  I strive to teach kids the skills they need to become stronger readers everyday.  So...I was looking into the research...and wondering..."How do I help my students become lifelong readers?"  Resoundingly, the research shows us that if we want our kids to be life long readers...they have to READ!  Not only do they need to just read a little bit...they need to read a lot!  They need to read at school and at home.  The more they read the stronger their reading strategies will become because we are giving them the opportunity to practice them.  They will develop even larger vocabularies which will help them to understand harder and harder texts.

So...as a class we are going to start collecting data on how much we read at home.  We will be using our monthly reading logs to track the number of minutes we have read for the month.  Our goal is to read 420 minutes in one month.  So check out our data...

 

 Each student randomly picked a secret number (that no one else knows) to be there number for the year.  Across the bottom are the students numbers.  The numbers going up the left side represents the number of minutes they have read.  The yellow line represents our goal of 420 minutes.  We are going to use a different colored dots for each month. Since we have done this for two months so far, each student has two dots on the chart.  This data will help us to see not only how each student is growing but also how are we doing as a whole class.  

As you look at our data you can see that some of us have met our goal and some have not.  Please encourage your child to read at home...and don't forget to mark it on their reading log!

Happy Reading!