K Spring Reading

Manchester Public Schools

Office of Equity and Partnerships

Kindergarten Spring Reading

Read Books

Connect with School Staff

Use Resources

Here are some of the things you can do to help your child learn…

Be a Reading Role Model

Provide a good role model - read yourself and read often to your child.
What are you Picturing?

Ask your child: What are you picturing in your mind as you read the story?
Set a Time to Read

Establish a reading time and read with your child for 20 minutes.
Replace Television with Reading

Establish one evening week for reading (instead of television viewing).
Click to Visit the Epic! Website

A great resource for both fiction and nonfiction at home is Epic! books online. It is a digital library that tailors itself to your child's interests and level. Click now to go directly to the Epic! website!
Click to Check out Reading Rockets Site

Reading Rockets is a multimedia project that offers a wealth of research-based reading strategies, lessons, and activities to help you children learn how to read and read better. The resources assist parents help struggling readers build fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills.
Click and Search Scholastic's Books

Having students read just right books at home is very important. You can find levels of books online at Scholastic Book Wizard. On this website you can find levels of books or place your childâs level in the computer to find books that they might like.
Use Mentor Texts

Mentor texts are pieces of literature that you can return to and reread for many different purposes. Texts are read aloud to students and discussed. Suggested Mentor Texts: Dinosaur Chase; The Runaways: Zelda & Ivy, Tumbleweed Stew
Click to Call a Teacher or Coach

Your child's teacher or a school/district literacy coach are available to answer questions about your child's progress and what they are learning in class. Click now to access the Manchester Public Schools employee directory!

If your child gets stuck on a word...

When reading with your child encourage all their reading efforts and if they are stuck on a word:

Tell them to read letter sounds together
Ask them does that look right?
Ask them does that make sense?
Ask them does it sound right?
Look at the picture to figure out a word
Reread the sentence to see if it makes sense with the story

Connect with the School

Help the teacher get to know your child. During the first week of school, tell the teacher about your child as a person-her likes and dislikes, strengths and weakness, general personality traits, and your vision for your child in the future. The more the teacher knows your child as a person, the better she can address your child’s specific situation.

Keep the teacher informed about your child, including recent assessments, medical information, family situations-in other words, anything that will have an impact on your child’s performance.

Be collaborative. Look at this as a partnership, with the goal being to have your son/daughter succeed at education.

Communicate, communicate, communicate. Whether it’s by email, phone, notes, or in person, our parent advisors make an ongoing effort to stay in touch with their children’s teachers.

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