Reading essentials

Reading essentialsBy: Cassie WrightLAE 6325

Share your reading lifeBegin a class chart listing favorite authors and keep adding to it.Have students bring in books by their favorite author to share with the class.Have students make a timeline of their favorite books over the school year. Combine classes to compare favorite authors.Do author talks along with weekly book talks to recommend books.Consult school and public librarians for suggestions about authors to study.Have baskets of recommended books.Have blank writing notebooks available in which students can record quotes or reactions to favorite books and passages.

Creating a classroom libraryCelebrate new books, and entice students with something interesting about the book. Provide lots of choices and books.Find out students favorite authors, series, and book titles.Pay attention to students interest and de-emphasize leveled books.Include lots of non-fiction.Make books and book talk hot in your classroom.Make school and classroom libraries attractive, comfortable, and assessable for reading.

Classroom Library

Bonding with studentsGet to know your students as readers.Bring in stories to read with students.Tell them stories of your live.Value the stories that your students share with you.Read stories aloud with students. Learn about your students reading lives at home.Enjoy your students and celebrate your life.

Independent readingStudents need to do more reading.Struggling readers need much more time to read!Research strongly supports independent reading.Connect independent reading with teaching and evaluating.Notice where independent reading fits in the optimal learning model. Teach students how to select just-right booksDemonstrate that just reading the words correctly is not enough.Allow students choice!

How to choose a just right book

Teach comprehensionStart with teaching comprehension right from the start with texts the students are reading.Demonstrate that proficient readers use many strategies.Balance your explicit instruction with lost of time for application.Make your reading and thinking process visible to students.Use writing to help recall key points.Teach students how to make connections and how to survey text before they begin to read.Use texts that are easy enough and meaningful enough to support comprehension.

Primary readers and comprehension

Shared readingMake shared reading an integral part of your reading program.Notice where shared reading fits best in the optimal learning model.Use shared reading to demonstrate reading all kinds of texts.Add shared reading aloud with your students.No matter how old a picture book is great for a shared reading activity.Present an informational book through a shared read-aloud or introduce a literacy genre through a shared read-aloud.

Involving students in shared reading

Guided readingClarify guided reading for yourself and where it fits best in your learning model.Be cautious about how you group students and create opportunities for flexible grouping. Be careful when choosing books for guided reading and make sure the quality of them is excellent.Establish a workable schedule for guided reading.Be flexible about guided reading.Make management easy and meaningful.Have students spend most of reading time reading.

Set up for guided reading

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