Parent Support for At Home Reading & Back To School Parent Input Form Freebie

It is so helpful to parents when we, as teachers, provide strategies and tips for working with their children at home! Parent input at Back to School time can be so helpful, too! I'm a big fan of parent communication - I'm super blessed to work in a community where parents support education and work with their children. In order to help set them up for success, communication helps out!

Parent Information Night is Thursday night and I've been getting a bunch of stuff ready!

One of the things I've been getting ready is this letter to help parents support their child's at home reading...which, of course, I'm sharing with you! You guys are the best!!! I can't thank you enough for your kind words, emails, comments and support!

I laminated mine, numbered them with student numbers and my classroom code 1-M.

The goal is for them to go home each day inside the students Take Home Book envelopes for parents to refer to throughout the year as their readers grow and evolve.

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I use letter size poly envelopes like  these or these or these because they last all year long (after I lay down the expectations on how to take care of them)!

This is all in an effort to support and enrich the foundation of reading workshop...which is to build readers who read like a star (S=study, T=think, A=ask & R=respond):

All three of my reading workshop packs are available in a bundle or individually (Finding Proof, Teaching Readers to Self-Monitor, Building STAR Readers,  .

Do you struggle with students that don't self monitor their reading? They plow on with their reading even when what they've said doesn't make sense, sound right and/or look right? Be sure to check out "Teaching Readers to Self-Monitor" in my TpT store!

This parent reading support letter provides explanations and examples of how they can provide support and compliment their reader from the lenses of word-solving, fluency & comprehension.

The other side has the Word-Solving strategies, a tidbit about fluency and an image from my READ bulletin board in the classroom.

I have a hyperlink to the word-solving strategies in the download of this letter or you can snag them up right here, too.

You can download this At Home Reading for Parents letter freebie below...I hope it helps you out!!!

For building your classroom community with a culture of kindness, you might want to check this Let's Be Kind mini-unit out, too! 

You might also like this back to school freebie from my TpT store. It's a zipped file containing a non-editable pdf and a Powerpoint file that you can edit & tweak to your heart's content for your classroom. (Uncomfortable, but necessary, terms of use...please do not edit the file and then redistribute it, claiming it as your own.)