Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Giving thanks is actually good for the brain! If you google “thanksgiving and the brain,” you will find a plethora of articles on why this is so. This Thanksgiving, I hope you will be sure to express your gratitude, inwardly and outwardly! Have a wonderful week.
“Showing gratitude is one of the simplest yet most powerful things humans can do for each other.” –Randy Pausch
There are many benefits to having your child/students orally reread stories.
The texts should be at an independent reading level (meaning the student should be able to independently read the text with about 95% accuracy). The student’s reading should be supervised by an adult, older sibling, etc. It is fine to model reading the story first.
Oral rereading of texts improves:
Time your student/child’s initial reading of a passage, then the second and third re-reading–you will be surprised by how much he or she improves!
A good goal for which to aim is to have your child/student reread a familiar text three times. (The benefits generally don’t go beyond three times.)
“Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think.”
–Robert Henri
“Sometimes God brings times of transition to create transformation.” –Lynn Cowell
