Read Dating: A Fun Way to Motivate Struggling Readers
“I hate reading.” No three words frustrate me more than these. What enrages me about this phrase is that it is a lie. But ultimately, what frustrates me most is that we teachers create this perception by killing the joy of reading. Reading a book is like dating. 1. 2. 3. Similarly, books can be really boring in their exposition. 4. Maybe if we approached reading in our classrooms like dating, we wouldn't be such atrocious matchmakers. We then create an arranged marriage in which we force our kids to go on date after date, no matter how much they can't stand the relationship. If we want students to love reading, we have to teach them to approach reading like dating—and then let them date freely. Now, if you are like me, you have set curricula that requires certain texts. So, if you're ready to make your students love reading, then help them be lovers with the tips below. And if you want to take your matchmaking skills to the next level, set up a reading speed date. Step 2: Set the mood. 6.
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Fifth Grade Ramblings: Tackling the independent reading homework...{and a giveaway}!
Hello! So for today's ramblings, I want to talk about independent reading homework. In my district, 5th graders are required to read 20 minutes per night and 100 pages per week. I am going to give this to all my parents at open house. I found in my first few years of teaching, I really struggled with managing this element of homework, because I didn't really have a great way of checking it. Each night, my students have a reading log to complete. I copy it back to back so the students have choices in what they choose to complete that night. Here's what some pages look like: There are 18 pages in all and they can be copied back to back to make the homework different each week. An added bonus is that they are super easy to correct, and I truly do enjoy seeing the different books that are being read in my classroom. In the spirit of back to school, I'm going to offer these in my TpT store for 20% off Friday and Saturday. a Rafflecopter giveaway
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Reading Stronger, Faster, Better: 5 Activities for Teaching Reading Strategies
How do you teach students to become better readers, especially with academic texts? As a teacher, you can arm students with specific reading strategies that will help students navigate and comprehend any given text. Below are 5 essential strategies and ways to use them in your classroom. 1ScanningOne of the most essential reading skills is scanning for specific information. By training students to scan the page to look for key words, they learn to group specific letters together and quickly identify words, thus improving their fluency over time. Model and practice these skills with your students regularly and watch over time how they will be reading stronger, better, and faster!
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First-Year Writing - University of Connecticut
On this page, we have included assignments that might be used in teaching ENGL 1011; most focus on literary texts of some type. They can of course be used in ENGL 1010 or 1004 as well. The website for Writing through Literature, UConn's own anthology, also contains a set of assignment frames for use in 1011. Title: Banned Graphic Novels (Corey Mahoney) Description/Goals: Asks students to assert the way one or more graphic novels works to confront a political or cultural tension. Title: Bodies as Difference (Jarred Wiehe) Description/Goals: "Your job in this essay is to first pair a text of your choosing with one of the texts we have worked with in class in order to develop a research question—a line of inquiry which you are interested in pursuing—about one particular aspect of how a body is put together." Title: Fairy Tales (Catherine McKenna) Description/Goals: This was one of the assignments picked out as particularly strong in our first round of assignment review in Fall '09.
