Wednesday, March 5, 2014

March is National Reading Month!

Defer is celebrating again this year with One Book/One School. Our entire school and school community is enjoying a shared reading experience around the award winning book - The Cricket in Times Square. Each family received one copy of the book to read together at home each week in March. At school, we kicked off the experience with a school-wide assembly on Monday, March 3rd. During the month there will be a number of activities including trivia questions every Tuesday during morning announcements.
Reading to your child is an easy way to improve your child’ chances at school. Studies show that children who are read aloud to by an adult have a head start when it comes to language and literacy skills. And even more importantly, the bond between child and parent is strengthened with the pleasure of spending time and sharing the enjoyment of a good book.

Below is our reading schedule for this experience.
Happy Reading!
March 3 - March 7 Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4
March 10 – March 14 Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8
March 17 – March 21 Chapters 9, 10, 11, 12
March 24 – March 28 Chapters 13, 14, 15

Possible questions to discuss while reading at home:
1. What has happened in the story so far? Have students retell part of the story that you just read together.
2. What do you think might happen next?
3. How does the character feel right now? Why does he/she feel that way?
4. What problem(s) does the character face?