Gaining Interest In Reading

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Gaining Interest In Reading!

• By Aly Robertson

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Starter Tips

• Create an Interest Inventory
• Identifies the kinds/topics of books they like to
  read.
• Provide Materials
• Have in class materials readily available for
  checkout.
• Teach Students how to select books
• Teach them to count 100 consecutive words and
  read the passage- if they can struggle with 3 or
  more errors- its too hard.
• Create a reading log that is fun!
• Mobile, worm, space ships
• Set up an award system that is fun!
• Youll get _____ if you read _______ books.

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Classroom Arrangement

• World of Books
• Have a map where kids can mark where there
  stories take place with a push pin or something
• Library Corner with variety of materials
• Students can go here at certain times of the day
• Text and non texts fiction and non fiction
• Reading Tub/Chair for special individuals
• Rocking chair, overstuffed pillow, bean bag, etc
• Listening Stations
• listen to books on tape
• Monthly Topics
• Display of books, posters, and pictures about a
  particular topic each month that the students can
  choose to learn more about.

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Teacher input

• Objects
• Bring in an object that introduces a book or
  series of stories
• Book Lists
• Create a board of books that students might enjoy
  reading
• Sustained Silent Reading
• Everyone in the classroom reads silently for
  _____ mins.
• Read Aloud
• Read parts of stories aloud to gain interest then
  stop at an interesting or exciting part of book
• Conferences
• Teachers discuss books and writing with each
  student

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Involvement with Others

• Book Master Questions
• Prepare questions about popular books for
  students to answer
• Speakers
• Ask parents and other community members to come
  share information about their work or hobbies,
  etc.
• Book Discussions
• Groups reading about similar topics can discuss
  what they are learning
• Read to Younger Kids
• Buddy Reading
• Read interesting parts of your book to your
  partner
• Interview
• Choose a topic from their book and interview
  others about it
• Notes by Students
• Write notes about a book they are reading/just
  read where other students can read

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Individual Projects

• Demonstrate
• Allow students to demonstrate or talk about
  something they learned about while reading.
• Bags of Books
• Students have brown bag, decorate them, and fill
  them with items to represent their book
• Collage
• Use words or pictures to construct a collage
  about your book
• Book Jackets
• Create a new book jacket for your book
• How-to Book
• Read a few how-tos and then have the students
  create their own about anything they want.

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Group Assignments

• Mobiles
• Place mats
• Illustrate sequence of events, main idea,
  characters, setting, etc
• Bedtime story
• Cartoon
• Greeting Cards
• Create and design a greeting card that characters
  might have sent to each other
• Travel Folders
• After reading a story about a particular
  location, they can write about weather, animals,
  hotels, etc.

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In class Assignments

• Book Marks
• Advice Column
• Create a class advice column and students can
  write questions to each and advice
• Announcement
• Write an announcement for an event in their
  story- birthday, Christmas, etc.
• Awards
• Write and design awards for something/someone in
  their book
• Bumper Stickers
• Crossword
• Use words from one certain book or a
  combination/variety of books

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Active Involvement

• Acting
• Students role play part of the class read story
• Pantomime/Charades
• Book Parade
• Students dress up as a character from their book
  and tell the class about their book
• Puppets
• Games/create a game like Jeopardy
• Newscast
• Report a story as though it were happening today
• Reading shirts
• Wear shirts with their favorite passage on the
  back. Students go around reading about books and
  pick 5 theyd like to read after class
• Weather Forecast
• Write own weather forecast for the week

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Special Segments

• Popular Music
• Study lyrics of songs and their meanings, study
  musicians, discuss characteristics of musical
  style
• Movies
• Read books that have movies that coincide with
  book. Discuss similarities and differences
• Commercials
• Present a commercial to sell their book Video
  tape it
• Ads
• Study ads in magazines and newspapers- create own
• Epitaphs
• Design a gravestone
• Tongue Twisters
• Write your own tongue twister use alliteration

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Writing

• Diaries
• character might have kept
• Directions
• getting one place to another or how-to
• Fables
• write a story teaching a lesson or moral
• Fairy Tales
• Once upon a time magic They lived
  happily ever after
• Letter to author
• What did you like about book? Any questions about
  book/author?
• Mystery
• Myth
• Story Extensions
• What happens after the book ends?
• Tall Tales
• Write books