HALB kids love their books

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Early Childhood Co-Directors Felecie Akerman and Lisa Zakutinsky are so excited with the progress the HALB Lev Chana Early Childhood Center Kindergarten children have made with their decoding and comprehension skills.

To celebrate, an additional component was added to their reading program: independent readers (Just Right Books). These are books, usually a level or two below the kindergarten child’s small group guided reading level, that the children will be able to read without too much difficulty.

The children are encouraged to read to their parents nightly, and parents become active partners with the morot as they support and assist their child with reading strategies they have been learning in school. 

As their child reads, the parents are encouraged to help them connect the story to something with which they are already familiar, make and confirm predictions to understand the text, ask and answer questions, retell the story, and sequence the events.

The Just Right Books go home in special plastic book bags and are returned when the child finishes reading the books and is ready for others.

HALB’s kindergarten children are taking a monumental leap towards literary independence and “parents will shep nachas as they listen to them and share in their reading accomplishment.” the morot said.