Now, more then ever, students need to know how to pick a just right book.  This could be something you set up for your students, as they are learning at home.

Perhaps students have access to books at home, or books online.  If they do have access to online reading options, their choices are unlimited!  However, they might need some support in choosing a good fit book.  Thanks to the Daily 5 sisters, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, who have created a great lesson on how to teach kids to pick just right books.  I love the lesson in the Daily 5 book, but attached are two graphics you could provide to your students remotely. Their assignment could be to find a just right book, with the attached criteria, and to write or talk to you about their book choice.

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Thanks to Gravity Goldberg, for creating this document we can send to parents, for how to support their children at home with reading.  Click here to view the document.

Here is a fun activity students can do at home!

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Thank you to Popey for creating these fabulous documents, to support learning at home.

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Fountas and Pinnell have added some tips for teachers who use LLI with their students, and ways our students can be supported at home.

FOR LEVELED LITERACY INTERVENTION (LLI) EDUCATORS:

• Encourage students to read aloud and talk about the books they are reading to a parent, caregiver or sibling at home.
• For K-2 LLI students: Prepare to send home the Take-Home Bags with LLI Take-Home Books and students My Writing Book for children to read or reread.
• For 3-6 LLI students: Prepare to send home the Student Portfolios with LLI books (create a check out system if you are able), their Literacy Notebooks and any class work to extend learning remotely.
• For 3-6 LLI students: Create a plan to leverage the Novel Studies in LLI.
• Review the nonfiction topics from the LLI books and send home YouTube™ links to build background knowledge.
• Consult your LLI Lesson Guides for recommendations on homework that may benefit students while they are remote learning.
• Print some of the games from Gamemaker that they have already taught and send home to apply/practice independently or together with family.
• Encourage children to write daily.

We invite you to join the conversation and be in collaboration and community on the Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Learning Group on Facebook to hear ideas from other educators and to share your own ideas.

~ The Fountas & Pinnell Literacy™ Team

Thank you to Nicole Wilson for sharing these amazing ideas she has created for the students and families in her class. All activities have a social emotional lens, which is more important to focus on now, more than ever!

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What is Social Emotional Learning?

Social and emotional learning (SEL) is the process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.  https://casel.org/

The Circle of Viewpoints activity helps students consider different and diverse perspectives involved in and around a topic. Understanding that people may think and feel differently about things is important learning for our students.  This work is inspired by Miriam Miller and also Project Zero.  This is a template that might work for learners at home.   They could choose text they have at home, or online, and write about the different perspectives students have in a book or article.

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Thank you Kristine Mraz, who thoughtfully created some learning activities children can engage in at home, with their family members.

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Thanks very much to Gail Boushey, co author of Daily 5, who has created some short videos to support parents in encouraging their kids to read at home!

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