Middles students are encouraged to read nightly and to use their school diary as a reading log.

The school diaries are  designed to provide a place for your child to record the name of the book they are reading and the number of pages read, and for you to write some comments about their reading. Could you also please sign your child’s reading? We are in the process of assessing your child to determine their appropriate reading level. In the meantime children will be freely selecting books of interest to share with you at home. If the book is too difficult, please feel free to read to, or with, your child so good reading habits are established early.

Please encourage your child to read each night for approximately 20 minutes or set aside a stress free time to read with your child and find a quiet place to curl up together. Talk with your child about their book, ask questions or have them retell the parts they have read.

At school, we are setting up regular routines for book borrowing and we are encouraging your child to develop independent book exchange responsibilities.

Take home book borrowing is just one small aspect of our rich Language program. Every day at school your child is spending time reading and writing, speaking and listening and viewing and presenting.

In addition, the school library is a great place to borrow beautiful books to share at home and then return. Classes have a scheduled time in the school library once a week for browsing and borrowing. We ask that your child has a named library bag to protect their library book.

Please consider joining your local municipal library for borrowing even more books to share. Op shops, fetes and garage sales are also great places to find books to read at home.

We wish you many hours of happy book sharing this year J

Best wishes,

The Middles Teaching Team!