Helping Your Student Find a "Just Right" Book

Wondering how to know if the book your student is reading is "just right"? Here's how!

1. Ask your student to open to any page.
2. Ask your student to read that whole page aloud to you.
3. If your student did not know 4 or more words, the book is probably too hard!
4. Ask your student to summarize what happened in that page. If he or she is right, the book is probably "just right."

We also went over the "Five Finger Rule" the first week of school. This is a way for students to check if a book is "just right" themselves.
1. Open to any page.
2. Read the page aloud.
3. Count the number of words you do not know or recognize.
4. If you counted 4 or more words, the book is too hard! If you counted 1-3 words, the book is "just right"!