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The teacher is starting a poetry reading competition called The Great Poetry Race. Students will bring home a poem each week to read to others, who will sign the poem. The student with the most signatures at the end of the week wins a small prize, and the overall winner each year gets a special award. The purpose is to build reading fluency through repeated readings.

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Dear Parents

The teacher is starting a poetry reading competition called The Great Poetry Race. Students will bring home a poem each week to read to others, who will sign the poem. The student with the most signatures at the end of the week wins a small prize, and the overall winner each year gets a special award. The purpose is to build reading fluency through repeated readings.

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Dear Parents, This week we will begin The Great Poetry Race.

We will read a poem in class on Monday and bring it home in our success folders. Your child needs to read the poem to as many different people as possible throughout the week. After your child reads the poem, the person who was read to signs the back of the poem. The student with the most signatures at the end of the week will receive a small prize the following Monday. The student who receives the most signatures this year will win a special award at the end of the year. Please return the poems to school on Friday with signatures. If you need more room than is on the back of the poem, attach a sheet of notebook paper! We will be reading a variety of poems and will begin with sight word poems. The purpose of The Great Poetry Race is to build reading fluency. Reading fluency is when children are able to read quickly and accurately with expression. Research shows that when students read texts multiple times, their fluency increases. This in turn improves comprehension. Students are not required to read the poem a certain number of times. I hope that The Great Poetry Race will be an enjoyable way for your child to practice reading for an audience while improving both fluency and comprehension. Students may read a poem to a person more than once, but the person can only sign the paper one time a week. Read to friends, siblings, aunts, grandparents, people at church, sporting events the possibilities are endless! Please let me know if you have any questions! I appreciate your help with transforming your child into a confident, fluent reader.

-Ms. Boucher

_____________________ is a participant in Ms. Boucher s Great Poetry Race! He or She will read a poem to you. After listening to the poem, please sign below indicating they have read the poem to you. Thank you for helping to build a confident, fluent reader!

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