Reminder From Your School’s Library and Media Center
Guidelines to have Maximum Benefit for your brain from reading
Reading is a way to grow our brains. If we read the same book every day, if we re-read the same pages that we read yesterday, we are not building new memories. Let’s find new articles every day.
1. NEW INFORMATION
The purpose of reading is to expose our brains to new information.
We recommend 20 minutes of independent reading. We also suggest that you can spend some of the time reading the same book.
2. VARIETY
Please also add articles from the internet or magazines or newspapers so you get a variety of reading in the 20 minutes. For example, you can read pages from a novel or short story for 15 minutes. Then you can read a short article in the newspaper or online about yesterday’s events. You might spend 5 minutes on reading other items.
3. READING ALOUD
Our school also recommends that an adult read to the child at least three minutes. The minimum time for reading is 43 minutes per day, every day for fifth grade: 40 minutes of reading to yourself and 3 minutes of listening to another reader.
4. READING EVERY DAY.
We ask you to read daily. This includes Friday, Saturday and Sunday. PARENTS can set an example by taking 20 minutes to read on their own.
5. AFTER READING
Please remember that reading is improved when we talk about the new information. We can remember more when we teach and talk to other people about the things we read about.
After you read for 40 minutes, remember to take two minutes to talk with someone about the pages you read. Your parents might ask, “What did you read about?” and you can give three details that you remember from the story or article. Then you can give the main idea and explain if the article is trying to inform or entertain or persuade or give instructions about how to do something.
Thank you for following these rules and guidelines about reading. We can all grow our brains by reading to each other and by reading independently (by ourselves). Both kinds of reading help the brain get more information and practice organizing new information. We also connect older information to new information and sometimes we update the information that we carry inside us.
Here is an interesting quote: “Reading aloud provides children with a model of confident and expert reading. Many parents and teachers make reading aloud a vital part of their teaching practice.”
Yes, parents are teachers, too.
The goal is to love the story. That’s the point of reading, unless you’re reading for meaning. When my oldest daughter didn’t “take” to reading as I’d hoped, I let her listen to hours of audiobooks and read aloud to her multiple times a day. I wanted her to get hooked on the stories in the chapter books, without the frustration of reading them. Like her, all readers — and especially struggling readers — learn to love stories by hearing stories. -- Melissa Taylor readbrightly.com
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