New Classroom Library!!

After the long weekend, the class has an updated classroom library of books! We have restructured and reorganized our decodable stories that you may have seen labelled as D1 or D2 in Snuggle Up & Read folders previously. These stories align with the phonics lessons we have been explicitly teaching in class and are taught in a very particular order. This is structured practice that aligns with our new language curriculum and the massive amounts of research behind it. These books have been relabelled into smaller sets, labelled with letters A through I, that allows us to be very specific with practicing phonics skills that students are learning. 

Students will be bringing these newly labelled/organized books home, starting today, with a focus on being able to read with automaticity, fluency and proper pacing. Peek in the Snuggle Up & Read folders to see the new books, student's updated levels and their new reading goals. The Snuggle Up & Read program will not look too much different besides using this new library for almost all students to practice the skills we are specifically working on in class. Continue to read as often as possible with these books to build the skills and practice! You are also welcome to continue to add to the reading log, any other books your child is reading to an expert or from our weekly UFLI Decodable book. All reading is welcome! 

We will continue to be still accessing the lschool ibrary to bring home books, have books on display by various authors or themes, and selecting all sorts of books for in class reading for enjoyment. There is a place for all sorts books in our reading program. We want to expose students to all sorts of texts to explore, build interest in, be entertained by and learn from. Ultimately, the younger grades are all about learning the rules of reading, so we can focus on reading for meaning which is the ultimate goal.   

Please reach out if you have any questions about this slight switch up! 

Happy reading!