Reading - Building Good Habits

This unit is designed to remind first graders of the skills they have learned and emphasize that readers have good habits.  The good reading habits that students will practice are organized in three categories-habits for reading long and strong, habits for solving hard words, and habits for working with a partner.  The emphasis on habits provides a framework for establishing norms, rituals, values and identities that can make a world of difference.  Our job is to create in the classroom a richly literate world that invites children to role-play their way into being the types of readers and writers we want them to become, inspiring readers to to believe that this will be their year for reading.