Spider Books

You may notice a 'spider book' coming home with your child sometime this week. Our journal challenge was to create a book by finger printing spiders on a web. The main purpose of this book was to begin to build confidence in the Kiddoes that they ARE readers and writers. One of the first skills in early literacy is memorization. You may have noticed your child 'reading from memory' with the weekly poems. This is OKAY! It builds confidence and perseverance as I discussed in another post. When your child reads to you, help them to remember good readers touch each word as they read. This is called tracking and it is an important skill in early literacy. Don't worry about numbers/letters that are printed backwards. This is also developmentally appropriate at this stage of the year!!!