STRATEGY
Teach Your Children to Love Reading
Educators believe that children love to read and children do not.
Yet they have a hard time explaining the success of the Harry Potter series.
Children, like adults, like to read what they like to read.
Who among us has read their computer-operating manual?
Or the instructions for their 1040 income-tax form?
We, like children, like to read what we like to read.
Children do like to read. How else can you explain the Harry Potter phenomenon?
I can remember the short story that turned me on to reading.
It was Frank Stockton's "The Lady or the Tiger".
Can you remember what short story, novel, or nonfiction book made this kind of impression on you?
Why not explain to students your favorite book or short story, or author?
What one book, which you can obtain for free, do ALL students want to read?
It's the instruction manual needed to get a driver's license.
Maybe we should teach reading to reluctant readers using this book.
In addition, driver's manuals also have an assessment that measures comprehension.
My math and science teacher friends tell me that there are math and physics concepts that can be used in the driver's manual.
Teachers can also use the foreign language version translated by ELL students into English.
Teachers can put copies of the instruction manual in the back of the classroom along with old
copies of Car and Driver, Sports Illustrated, Glamour, Teen, People, US, and Seventeen.
Old copies of these magazines can be obtained from the school library or the public library. In addition, newsstands return the covers of these magazines for
credit from the publisher and generally throw out the rest.
Write a letter to the publishers and ask if you can obtain previous copies.
In the letter explain the purpose of your request and tell them they have the ability to build new readership.
Encourage the parents of your students to contribute to your library of magazines.
Use these magazines as an incentive to come early to your classroom.
Make rules about when students can read them.
For example, after they have finished taking a test.
152 Ways to Keep Kids in School: Effective, Easy-to-Implement Tips for Teachers by Franklin P. Schargel,
©2008 by Eye On Education.
All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission from Eye On Education.
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152 Ways to Keep Students in School
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by Franklin P. Schargel
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Speaking from years of experience, author Franklin Schargel provides 152 field-tested ideas about working with at-risk students.
Designed to be read and implemented quickly, these are concise snapshots of what educators can do to keep students from dropping out.
You can apply these practical tips in your classroom today.
Order by September 1, 2008 and get 20% off. Use promo code "LEARN" at checkout.
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