Reading –For homework your child will be asked to write a reading response every night. In order to do so your child is encouraged to read 15-20 minutes every single night. "Nancie Atwell in her book The Reading Zone writes: Every measure that looks at pleasure reading and its effects on student performance on standardized tests of reading ability-and science and math-tells us that the major predictor of academic success is the amount of time that a student spends reading. In fact the top 5 percent of U.S. students read up to 144 times more than kids in the bottom 5 percent." Here are example of reading responses to help your child at home. Examples-of-Reading-Responses.doc