Dear Hosea Families,
WOW! This is our last week of school. This has differently been a quite a unique learning experience for all of us. The Reading Teachers hope all of you have a great summer full of fun and adventure. Remember to continue to read every day. Reading every day will help you become a better reader. You can use the sites which we have posted to read books if you don’t have any at home.
We have missed seeing all of you and will continue to miss each of you until we see you again. We look forward to seeing your smiling faces next fall. Relax and have fun this summer.
WOW! This is our last week of school. This has differently been a quite a unique learning experience for all of us. The Reading Teachers hope all of you have a great summer full of fun and adventure. Remember to continue to read every day. Reading every day will help you become a better reader. You can use the sites which we have posted to read books if you don’t have any at home.
We have missed seeing all of you and will continue to miss each of you until we see you again. We look forward to seeing your smiling faces next fall. Relax and have fun this summer.
The Adventure Continues
Dear Hosea Families,
We hope this letter is finding you healthy and excited to be wrapping up the school year. Even though we won’t be seeing you back at school these last 2 weeks, we’ve found some sites for you to continue having fun while learning.
It takes just 15 minutes of reading practice to substantially increase reading ability. Why not use this time away from school to do just that. We dug through all the best reading websites out there to find ones that are intuitive and fun for practicing reading:
Fact Monster: All About Books
This fun site has all kinds of games and facts about books. Free, Grades K-12
Let us know if you have any questions,
The Hosea Reading Teachers
We hope this letter is finding you healthy and excited to be wrapping up the school year. Even though we won’t be seeing you back at school these last 2 weeks, we’ve found some sites for you to continue having fun while learning.
It takes just 15 minutes of reading practice to substantially increase reading ability. Why not use this time away from school to do just that. We dug through all the best reading websites out there to find ones that are intuitive and fun for practicing reading:
Fact Monster: All About Books
This fun site has all kinds of games and facts about books. Free, Grades K-12
Let us know if you have any questions,
The Hosea Reading Teachers
Lets Read...
Dear Hosea Families,
We hope this letter is finding you healthy. Even though we won’t be seeing you back at school, we’ve found some sites for you to continue having fun while learning.
It takes just 15 minutes of reading practice to substantially increase reading ability. Why not use this time away from school to do just that. We dug through all the best reading websites out there to find ones that are intuitive and fun for practicing reading:
1. Into the Book
Into the Book is a reading comprehension site that focuses on reading strategies teachers work on every day. Get practice using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing. Free, Grades K-6
2. ABC Mouse
ABCmouse.com has a Step-by-Step Learning Path with more than 850 lessons designed to take kids through the progression of learning to read. Free for 30 days, PreK-Grade 2
We hope this letter is finding you healthy. Even though we won’t be seeing you back at school, we’ve found some sites for you to continue having fun while learning.
It takes just 15 minutes of reading practice to substantially increase reading ability. Why not use this time away from school to do just that. We dug through all the best reading websites out there to find ones that are intuitive and fun for practicing reading:
1. Into the Book
Into the Book is a reading comprehension site that focuses on reading strategies teachers work on every day. Get practice using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing. Free, Grades K-6
2. ABC Mouse
ABCmouse.com has a Step-by-Step Learning Path with more than 850 lessons designed to take kids through the progression of learning to read. Free for 30 days, PreK-Grade 2
Dear Parents and Students,
We are so sad that we will not be coming back to school and ending the school year with you at school, but we plan to continue to give you ideas for reading at home.
We have set up an account with OxfordOWL, so that you can read books, listen to books and do many activities to continue your reading, phonics and even math at home. OxfordOWL is packed with activities to help you support your child’s education.
OxfordOWL will help you choose books by age, students can locate books by interests and themes. Parents, it will give you tips on helping your child read.
Here is the link to get to OxfordOWL:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
My Class login:
Username is : Mrs Mapel Reading
Password is : Hosea
Once you are in you have 2 choices –
1. ebooks - with 2 play activites
2. Parents – this side will explain more about the site and help you pick books for your younger child. Phonics and Math activities are also located here.
Please enjoy this site – let students read to you and let students listen to books.
We are so sad that we will not be coming back to school and ending the school year with you at school, but we plan to continue to give you ideas for reading at home.
We have set up an account with OxfordOWL, so that you can read books, listen to books and do many activities to continue your reading, phonics and even math at home. OxfordOWL is packed with activities to help you support your child’s education.
OxfordOWL will help you choose books by age, students can locate books by interests and themes. Parents, it will give you tips on helping your child read.
Here is the link to get to OxfordOWL:
https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/
My Class login:
Username is : Mrs Mapel Reading
Password is : Hosea
Once you are in you have 2 choices –
1. ebooks - with 2 play activites
2. Parents – this side will explain more about the site and help you pick books for your younger child. Phonics and Math activities are also located here.
Please enjoy this site – let students read to you and let students listen to books.
The Adventure Begins
While we are not in school, the Reading Teachers have found a site that have reading and phonic skills games. We recommend playing reading games each day. Click on https://www.roomrecess.com/pages/ReadingGames.html to play one of the reading games.
The game, Rough Riders, is a good game for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders to play. Here is the directions for play the game.
Click on the game Rough Riders
Chose keyboard or touch pad
Pick a skill
Pick your ride
Use space bar to move forward
Use arrows to go sideways to capture your word
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades can pick any of the games. Each game focuses on a different skill.
Also above the games is a tab for Audio Stories. You can click on that if you would like to have a story read. There are several stories and your child can follow along as they read it to them.
The game, Rough Riders, is a good game for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders to play. Here is the directions for play the game.
Click on the game Rough Riders
Chose keyboard or touch pad
Pick a skill
Pick your ride
Use space bar to move forward
Use arrows to go sideways to capture your word
2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades can pick any of the games. Each game focuses on a different skill.
Also above the games is a tab for Audio Stories. You can click on that if you would like to have a story read. There are several stories and your child can follow along as they read it to them.
The Adventure Begins 2
Hello Reading Students,
We miss you all so much! We hope you all are practicing your reading skills each day. We have found a free reading site for you this week. We will recommend one book for each grade level, but please find more books to listen to.
Here is a site that you can go to this week and listen to stories:
https://stories.audible.com
Kindergarten and 1st
https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B008NC9WC4?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_pg-1-cntr-0-7
ABC: Learn Your Alphabet with Songs and Rhymes
· Written By: Audible Studios
· Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Deryn Edwards
· Length: 1hrs 10mins
SynopsisEnjoy learning your letters with the help of songs! Sing along to your favourite tunes - while learning the alphabet too! Jam-packed with fun, you'll find questions to test your learning. Have fun with phonics! Learn the alphabet through the sounds of each letter, from A all the way to Z.
2nd and 3rd Grade
https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B00B2C8K9I?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_pg-1-cntr-0-24
Needs a New Name: Stella Batts, Book 1· Written By: Courtney Sheinmel
· Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
· Length: 1hrs 36mins
· Series: Stella Batts
SynopsisMeet Stella Batts. She is eight-years old and she loves to write. She loves to write lists; like her favorite things and kids in her class. And she's writing her autobiography. Stella's favorite color is yellow and she LOVES fudge. As a matter of fact, there is a special fudge counter at her family's candy store because fudge is one of her favorite things to eat!But Stella has just one problem - her name. A boy from her class keeps calling her 'Smella' after she trips on their class nature walk. ("I don't even want to say what I landed in, it was too gross, so I'm just going to leave out that part."). So Stella decides there's really only one thing to do: she has to change her name. After all, how hard can it be to pick a new name? But it's not as easy as it sounds.
4th and 5th Grade
https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B002V080R2?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_cntr-2-1
The Reluctant Dragon· Written By: Kenneth Grahame
· Narrated by: Anton Lesser
· Length: 53mins
SynopsisThe Boy lives in a cottage with his mother and father, and the Dragon lives in a cave on the Downs. The Boy is his only friend. The Dragon is not at all the sort of Dragon one might expect to meet, however: he's polite and friendly.
We miss you all so much! We hope you all are practicing your reading skills each day. We have found a free reading site for you this week. We will recommend one book for each grade level, but please find more books to listen to.
Here is a site that you can go to this week and listen to stories:
https://stories.audible.com
Kindergarten and 1st
https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B008NC9WC4?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_pg-1-cntr-0-7
ABC: Learn Your Alphabet with Songs and Rhymes
· Written By: Audible Studios
· Narrated by: Mark Meadows, Deryn Edwards
· Length: 1hrs 10mins
SynopsisEnjoy learning your letters with the help of songs! Sing along to your favourite tunes - while learning the alphabet too! Jam-packed with fun, you'll find questions to test your learning. Have fun with phonics! Learn the alphabet through the sounds of each letter, from A all the way to Z.
2nd and 3rd Grade
https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B00B2C8K9I?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_pg-1-cntr-0-24
Needs a New Name: Stella Batts, Book 1· Written By: Courtney Sheinmel
· Narrated by: Cassandra Morris
· Length: 1hrs 36mins
· Series: Stella Batts
SynopsisMeet Stella Batts. She is eight-years old and she loves to write. She loves to write lists; like her favorite things and kids in her class. And she's writing her autobiography. Stella's favorite color is yellow and she LOVES fudge. As a matter of fact, there is a special fudge counter at her family's candy store because fudge is one of her favorite things to eat!But Stella has just one problem - her name. A boy from her class keeps calling her 'Smella' after she trips on their class nature walk. ("I don't even want to say what I landed in, it was too gross, so I'm just going to leave out that part."). So Stella decides there's really only one thing to do: she has to change her name. After all, how hard can it be to pick a new name? But it's not as easy as it sounds.
4th and 5th Grade
https://stories.audible.com/pdp/B002V080R2?ref=adbl_ent_anon_ds_pdp_pc_cntr-2-1
The Reluctant Dragon· Written By: Kenneth Grahame
· Narrated by: Anton Lesser
· Length: 53mins
SynopsisThe Boy lives in a cottage with his mother and father, and the Dragon lives in a cave on the Downs. The Boy is his only friend. The Dragon is not at all the sort of Dragon one might expect to meet, however: he's polite and friendly.
If you are not sure what your child should choose or have any questions you can contact one of us by email below...
Carrie HeinemanBonnie Hidy |
Jerri MapelTessa Miller-Schwerer |
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