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Use the "Magic of Five" along with your book level from AR to help you select a book. Good readers read from a variety of genres.

Accelerated Reader Book Finder- [|www.arbookfind.com] BioCube- www.readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/cube_creator/

On-line Kid Magazines [] National Wildlife Federation Time for Kids Magazine National Geographic Kids

September- Reading together the book __Same Stuff as Stars__ by Katherine Patterson.

//Borrowed from Mrs. McCollough's website.//
 * Ideas for Reading as a Family **

**//__ Be an English Teacher __//** These questions are excellent as tools for discussion while your child is reading a text. This encourages the student to think about what they are reading!

**For vocabulary…**
 * Monitoring…. **
 * What do you know about this book?
 * Have you ever done anything like what is happening in this book? Explain.
 * Did that make sense?
 * What just happened in the story?
 * Can you show me evidence about what just happened?
 * What inferences can you make about what might happen next?
 * Try again. What did you see?
 * How did you know?
 * Why did you stop?
 * Why did you re-read?
 * Why did you pause?
 * Did that sound right?
 * Did you look at the whole word?
 * What might be another way to say that?
 * Did you decode?
 * Is there any part of the word you already know?
 * Does that look right?
 * How did you know that word was ?
 * What does the word mean?
 * What clues in the text helped you decipher the meaning?
 * How do context clues help you in learning what the definition of a word is?

Super-challenging questions, only for experts…

 * What connections do you have to the story?
 * What questions do you have about this part of the story?
 * Why did the author use this kind of vocabulary?
 * Why did the author write this into the book?
 * What do you picture in your mind right now?
 * How is this story related to your own life?
 * What evidence does the author provide that explains the setting?
 * What evidence is provided to describe the characters?
 * What evidence is provided to describe the problems?
 * What inferences have you made about the characters?
 * What inferences have you made about the problem?