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**Bag O' Books**  Each night, students will bring home a Bag O’ Books. The bag will come home every night and will be returned to school every morning. During Reading Workshop in our classroom, students read books from their Book Bags. At the end of Reading Workshop each day, students will choose books to take home to fulfill the 20 minute reading goal that I ask of them each night. Books finished at home will be added to the students’ Reading Logs at school.  Researchers have found that time spent reading is the main indicator of reading success as students progress through elementary school. Obviously, students who spend more time independently engaged in text are exposed to more words, more facts, and more background knowledge than their peers who __only__ read when asked to do so with their teacher while they are in school. For this reason, I have set a goal for all students to read for at least 20 minutes every night. The minutes should be recorded on the Reading Calendar. The recording of minutes will start on the first of every month, and the calendar should be turned in at the end of every month in order for students to be able to visit the reading prize cart.

 A total of 20 minutes a day will be the goal for each month. If students cannot meet the 20 minute goal on a given day, the time can be “made-up” on another day or during the weekend. I do understand that many students are involved in other activities that make some nights of the week very busy!

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