Seuss put it (in my most favorite book ever) "The more that you read, the more things you will know. This is really going along with everything that I already know about school success. I am half way through right now and I can already tell you that my mind is racing. (click the title of the book to go to the Amazon listing for it) So, as I was packing up my classroom for the summer (which officially began TODAY!!!) I grabbed this copy of The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child So if I were to look at my individual students, some of them probably spend *maybe* a total of 5 minutes actively reading on their own without someone else intervening in on it.
I mean, there is a lot of directions reading, choral reading, kids taking turns and then we discuss the reading, read alouds by me, and A LOT of writing, but we don't actually take much time out for the kids to read on their own. But then what do I do in my classroom? Not read. I tell them that they won't get better at writing, or vocabulary, or social studies, or science, or ANYTHING if they don't read. Every once in a while I will pick up a book and read.but usually, the computer/blogs/web articles is my main source of reading.Īs a teacher, though, I really see the value in reading for my students. There is literally no need for me to buy a Kindle, as it will be a waste of money. Now, as an adult, I am a spotty reader at best. I think I might still be on page 17 of The Catcher in the Rye. Cliff Notes became my new reading material.and subsequently, I just stopped reading books altogether. There were endless discussions about "classic" books like The Catcher in the Rye or the The Grapes of Wrath and NONE of it interested me. Suddenly, I was forced to read books that I just didn't want to. I just loved the idea of taking this little adventure in my mind, envisioning what the characters looked like, and getting fully wrapped up in a book.īut all of that stopped after elementary school. When I was a child, I would read non-stop.
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