Materials for the Take Home Reading Program

 

Materials you can download are:

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• The cover for My Very Own Nursery Rhyme Collection

• The cover for My Reading Log

• Entry pages for My Reading Log

• Activity Cards (and nursery rhymes) to include in take home folders.

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If you do not have Adobe Acrobat , you will need to download it to open and use these PDF files.

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Our Take Home Reading Program begins by sending 2 folders home with each child's first book packet. One folder is My Very Own Nursery Rhyme Collection; the other is My Very Own Reading Log.

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Each of WIL's 101 best books has an associated nursery rhyme and activity card; most of these are linked thematically. At our WIL experimental site, we placed 20 copies of the rhyme in an envelope and 20 copies of the activity card in another envelope. On each envelope we had a label that said, "take one only." We put the book, the two envelopes, and a zip-loc baggy containing our paste-in pictures for the My Very Own Reading Log in a 2 gallon zip-loc bag.

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The nursery rhyme cards, which we hole-punched, are added by families and children to the child's My Very Own Nursery Rhyme Collection, a folder that remains at the child's home.

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The activity cards include helpful hints for families and follow-up activities designed to encourage re-reading and/or discussion of the books. The paste-in pictures, soon to be available here on our WIL site, serve to visually remind children of the book's they've listened to.

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