Book Orders

I am sending home the book order catalogs and forms. You can fill in the form and send it and a check made out to Scholastic Book Clubs in an envelope to school. Or, you can place your order online with the information given to you at Back to School Night. Online orders earn $3.00 each for the class. We also earn 1-10 points per dollar spent with the September orders depending on the volume of the order. Points can be redeemed for classroom books.

The main reason I send these orders home is so that you can purchase books your child would like to read. However, your child should be reading books on their reading level or lower. If they are trying to read a book that is too hard for them they become frustrated. A lot of the books in these catalogs list the Guided Reading Level down near the price. Look for GRL: ____. Your child should know their GRL as I have listed it inside their spelling folders and they are trying to choose books in the classroom library on their level.

If you don’t know the reading level of a book a good rule of thumb to know if it is a “just right” book is the following: If your child misses or struggles with 5 words on one page of the book then the book is too difficult for them. If you take them to the library and they choose a book just have them read a page to you there in the library. If they miss 5 or more words on the page then it is a book you can read to them but they should choose an easier book for their independent reading. They should only be reading “Just Right Books” at home.

The due date for orders from these catalogs is next Tuesday September 14th.

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