Book Borrowers Club
Book Borrowers Club is a fun, cost effective, and efficient program to help increase your reader's fluency. No matter your reader's level, Book Borrowers will send you the tools. As you may have guessed, we are called Book Borrowers because as a member, we lend you reading materials from our professionally and expertly curated library created by our Academic Language Therapists. In most cases these books are expensive and only useful for a short time. And that's where we come in. We are truly all about helping your reader become the best they can be. Reading fluency extends beyond the necessary skill of learning to read. Fluency in reading will allow your reader success in all academic subjects as well as all facets of life. This is a way to help our members save on cost, repurpose books, and reserve space in your home.
HOW IT WORKS
CHOOSE WHERE TO BEGIN BELOW, AND SIGN-UP
Receive Delivery & Enjoy!
EXPECT BORROWED READERS, GRAPHEME & SOUND DECK, SIGHT WORD STRIP AND FUN EXTRAS IN YOUR DELIVERY
Return Borrowed Readers & Wait for More!
RETURN BOOKS WITH PREPAID SHIPPING LABEL AND WE WILL SEND YOU YOUR NEXT DELIVERY
Become a Member!
Where to begin...
Emergent Readers Level 1
PRE-K TO KINDERGARTEN
Early emergent readers are just beginning their reading journey. These students are typically 6 months to 6 years old and are learning the alphabet. They are typically developing these skills:
Recognizing lowercase and uppercase letters
Understanding letter-sound relationships
Uses pictures, print and story patterns to gain meaning from the text
May have a grasp of some sight words as well as ability to sound out simple syllable patterns such as CVC.
Emergent Readers Level 2
1ST/ 2ND GRADE
Readers at this stage have fully developed an understanding of the alphabet, phonological awareness, and early phonics. Early readers typically recognize a high number of sight words, and continue to work on these skills:
Work attack strategies
Predicting new words during reading
Ability to retell story as well as identify the message of the story
Transitional Reader
2ND/ 3RD GRADE
Transitional readers, sometimes referred to as intermediate readers, have typically begun to adopt the reading behaviors that will allow them to progress toward more advanced reading skills. These readers are developing these following skills:
Fluency is increasing with simple stories and text
Begin to rely less on pictures and can focus on more complex text
Can decode common words
Begin to build a rich vocabulary
Early Fluent Reader
3RD/ 4TH GRADE
Early Fluent Readers are approaching new texts with more independence. At this level readers can read longer, more complex sentence structures. They are beginning to "read to learn." Early Fluent Readers are developing these skills:
Continued work on increasing fluency
Building vocabulary skills
Understanding differences in genres
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Supporting Fluency
4TH-5TH GRADE
As readers continue to develop their reading skills choosing the right reading material is important. The more practice your reader gets, the more fluent they become. At this stage, as part of a reading club, we promote reading for enjoyment. Here we do our best, with your help, to fit your reader with interesting, exciting, and fun to read content.
