Thoughts on Homework
Students in the class have a variety of needs and strengths. I try to keep homework fairly light while encouraging families to personalize real-life learning opportunities at home. It will also serve as a reinforcement of skills taught in class and should be a review. Therefore, it is important that you're child attends school.
You will always find the homework assignments in your child's Take-Home RED homework folder. The folder will go home every day, and will also contain correspondence from the school. Students should be able to do most assignments independently, but please assist them if they need the help. If your child has lost the homework, please send a note in with your child asking for another or send me an email. He/she can make it up by the end of the week. I will contact you if your child is falling behind, missing/losing homework often or turning in poor work.
Reading every night is important. This will help develop a healthy routine and is the number-one way to increase vocabulary knowledge, fluency, and reading performance. Here are the numbers that support reading and its impact on achievement and vocabulary acquisition:
Achievement Percentile Minutes of Reading/Day Words per Year
90th 40.4 2,357,000
50th 12.9 601,000
10th 1.6 51,000
Source: Adapted from Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988 (Allington, Richard)
As part of their daily homework, your child should read for at least 25 minutes at home every day,
(weekends too!) Your child may select his/her preferred reading materials (preferably just right books): classroom books, books from home or the public library, poetry, magazines, etc. Reading with parents counts as reading too - third graders should still be read aloud to regularly.
I can already tell that your child is so in love with reading and that this is not "work" at all! Who doesn't wish that they are given at least 25 minutes set aside each day to dive into a book?
Students in the class have a variety of needs and strengths. I try to keep homework fairly light while encouraging families to personalize real-life learning opportunities at home. It will also serve as a reinforcement of skills taught in class and should be a review. Therefore, it is important that you're child attends school.
You will always find the homework assignments in your child's Take-Home RED homework folder. The folder will go home every day, and will also contain correspondence from the school. Students should be able to do most assignments independently, but please assist them if they need the help. If your child has lost the homework, please send a note in with your child asking for another or send me an email. He/she can make it up by the end of the week. I will contact you if your child is falling behind, missing/losing homework often or turning in poor work.
Reading every night is important. This will help develop a healthy routine and is the number-one way to increase vocabulary knowledge, fluency, and reading performance. Here are the numbers that support reading and its impact on achievement and vocabulary acquisition:
Achievement Percentile Minutes of Reading/Day Words per Year
90th 40.4 2,357,000
50th 12.9 601,000
10th 1.6 51,000
Source: Adapted from Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988 (Allington, Richard)
As part of their daily homework, your child should read for at least 25 minutes at home every day,
(weekends too!) Your child may select his/her preferred reading materials (preferably just right books): classroom books, books from home or the public library, poetry, magazines, etc. Reading with parents counts as reading too - third graders should still be read aloud to regularly.
I can already tell that your child is so in love with reading and that this is not "work" at all! Who doesn't wish that they are given at least 25 minutes set aside each day to dive into a book?