Reading+Readings

ON YOUR PAGE, how do you deal with students with bookhater's attitude? [] Use other means of getting information such as comic books, audio, mini videos, movies, flash cards, games, or computer. Encourage to read books by sharing book titles that tell a story with historical facts.

ON YOUR PAGE, comment on the sections marked reading. How useful were these sources? []

=What do you do to the unenthusiastic reader?= This discussion presumes that students ARE NOT Reading (or ARE NOT Reading to Level Required) Due to Willingness (or lack thereof) NOT due to inability.

First state Yes or No next to the item (as in "Yes, I would do that" or "No, I wouldn't do that"). Second, Discuss the Pros and Cons of the item. Third, Decide if there is any change in your answer.

1. Stop required reading. As in, if no one (or only a few) students are actually reading, why assign reading as homework? 2. Small doses, exciting topics. As in, use excerpts that are more interesting. 3. Relevancy to their lives. As in, find connections with what students are going through? 4. Joke yourself and pretend to be one with the students. As in, attempt (and fail) at using the conventions of the students in order to show you've attempted something uncomfortable. 5. Read and discuss (chunked). As in, read a paragraph, then discuss the contents. Read the next paragraph, discuss those contents, etc. 6. Read and discuss - whole chapters (AP style) As in, read a segments, have students discuss the content and/or have a small writing. Repeat the process. 7. Round robin reading. As in, having the first student read the first paragraph, the second student read the second paragraph, etc. until the entire class had a chance to read. 8. Popcorn reading. As in, having the student who is reading pick a point to stop, saying "Popcorn (next person's name)", making reading occur somewhere else in the room. The second student picks up where the first left off. 8. Reading to the students in small sections of reading. As in, teacher is doing the reading, but keeps the segments small. 9. Reading to the students in small clusters. As in, the teacher leads a reading to a small segment of the class (small group), while the rest of the class is clustered in other small groups. 10. Use Pre-recorded audio versions of the book. (Books on tape, CDs). As in, teacher uses pre-recorded audio versions of the book. 11. Breakdown big words in text prior to reading assignments. As in, teacher makes small presentation (and gives handout) of all the potentially difficult words students will encounter in the text. 12. Circle Quick Check. As in, students are arranged in a circle, teacher opens up gradebook, announces that there will be a relatively small grade to be placed in the gradebook for active participation, calls on the first student to read, to discuss a point in the book, to reference a picture, to summarize what was already said, or to state an opinion. Once the first person participated, that person gets a grade in the gradebook (say 10 points out of 10 points); the teacher proceeds to the next student, who once accomplishing the small task receives full credit. This process continues until everyone gets full points. No one who has points already can participate again until everyone had a turn. Once the entire class has received points, the process starts again, with a second column in the gradebook (participation grade number 2). The order students are called upon does not matter as long as everyone had received full credit in the round. The third, fourth, fifth, etc. rounds occur as time permits. Everyone walks out with full credit for the day and the material is gone through. 13. Use the text books End of chapter/section questions. As in, use the items provided by the textbook to guide the reading, have students write answers down. This can be either as a full set of questions or as a teacher selected batch. it could be end of section (i.e. more frequent), or only end of unit (i.e. summative). 14. Create a classroom library. As in, find articles, books, excerpted materials specific to your unit of study for the students to use, examine, check out, etc. Librarians can assist in pulling collections to assist you, or there can even be a scheduled library day for this purpose. 15. Employ Silent Sustained Reading (SSR) just to show students reading is important. As in, for a set period of time, or during a set day of the week, everyone quietly reads for an extended period of time. This includes the teacher. What is read usually is based on the reader's choice, however, limitations can be set (e.g. only print versions, or only pieces from my classroom library.