Share your reading Life. Sharing with students about
ourselves as readers is important to help develop a love for reading. We need
to be good role models. Children need to see our excitement about books, hear
about our reading life and see us in action as a reader. If we share with
students why reading is important to us, where we go to check out/buy books,
how we learn to try different genres/authors, and record what we have read,
many students will follow suit. I like to read books stud era read and
participate in book talks and book sharing. I then get to model on their level
many skills while getting them excited about the book/author. Books need to be
everywhere in the classroom. Students will see that books are important. I am
proud of WHES teachers. They have spent hours creating and orphaning their
classroom libraries. You can see books and reading is important. Students see
this also. Thank you teachers!! Keep
reading aloud to students daily. 5-10 mins gets them hooked on a book, model
strategies, and teach them how to make meaning of text.
I think our teachers are seeing the value in this as well!!!
ReplyDeleteOur students look up to us. When they see that we enjoy reading they want to do it as well so we need to read with a voice during our read out louds and shared reading time. It is important to allow our students to develop emotions (happy, empathic, even joy) when we read to them.
ReplyDeleteReading aloud to my students was the best secret to surviving my first year teaching! :-)
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