Motivating middle school students to read Aliteracy

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Motivating middle school students to read -
Aliteracy

• By
• Lexie McDuffee

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Aliteracy

• An ability to read but an indifference and
  boredom with reading for academic and enrichment
  purposes.
• Aliterate children can read, but they tend to
  avoid the activity. Children who do not read do
  not improve their reading skills.
• Children dislike doing things they do poorly, so
  they tend to read less and less.
• This is also true for the classroom, if a child
  who does not read sits with skilled readers and
  continues to feel more inept about reading.

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Ten Reasons to Read

• 1.) Reading helps you become an interesting
  person.
• 2.) Reading helps improve your writing skills.
• 3.) Reading develops your imagination.
• 4.) Reading is great entertainment.
• 5.) Reading teaches you things that may be
  unfamiliar to you.

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Ten Reasons to Read

• 6.) Reading can take you places you have never
  been.
• 7.) Reading takes you to times youve never
  experienced.
• 8.) Reading introduces you to people youve
  never met.
• 9.) Reading introduces you to new ideas.
• 10.) Reading is FUN?

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Ways to Motivate Independent Reading

• Schedule school events that focus on reading
  reading campaigns.
• Becoming involved in community and library
  programs.
• Distributing reading certificates at awards day
  ceremonies.

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Ways to Motivate Independent Reading

• Ensure students have access to books.
• Schedule time for sustained periods of silent
  reading.
• Reading aloud to students.
• Introduce and display interesting and engaging
  texts.
• Get students hooked on favorite authors or
  topics.

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Understanding and Encouraging a Reluctant Reader

• http//npin.org/pnews/2002/pnew302/int302b.html
• The above web site provides information about
  reluctant readers and why they do not read.
• Research shows that reading attitudes deteriorate
  and voluntary reading drops as students progress
  through school.

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Understanding and Encouraging a Reluctant Reader

• This web site also suggest there are three
  distinct types of aliteracy
• Dormant readers read for pleasure when they
  tell they have enough time (vacation).
• Uncommitted readers have an open attitude
  toward reading. They do not care for it but
  might grow to like it.
• Unmotivated readers dislike reading and express
  negative attitudes about people who read.

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Understanding and Encouraging a Reluctant Reader

• The web site also gives us examples of books to
  recommend and what we can do to help
• Hang in there dont force the issue, but make
  it possible for young adults to see that you
  enjoy reading.
• Make books a part of life make sure they have a
  library card and offer visits to the school or
  public library.
• Help them discover how may choices they have-they
  may not realize the variety of books that are
  available.

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Motivating Middle and High School Readers with
Booktalks

• Booktalks are a great way to get students
  involved in books.
• You can also get actively involved by attending
  booktalks at your local library.
• Booktalks can get students or the whole family
  involved.
• http//www.suite101.com/article.cfm/1411/49394
• The above web site provides you information
  about booktalks.

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Reading Engagement What Influences the Choice to
Read?

• http//www.monroe.lib.in.us/bpmchi/award01.html
• The above web site is lengthy with lots of
  information about motivation, reading to
  learn/learning to read, and students choices and
  control.
• It also points out that poor readers remain poor
  readers as they advance through school, and their
  choice to avoid reading can actually lead to a
  decline in reading ability. We need to motivate
  our students to read!

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Motivating Low Performing Adolescent Readers

• Remedial readers are often caught in a cycle of
  failure. They have negative experiences with
  reading and view reading as a process of getting
  the word right rather than an act of making sense
  of the material. They do not hear the voice on
  the page.
• Low performing students need the opportunity to
  revalue themselves.

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Motivating Low Performing Adolescent Readers

• They also need to acquire strategies that will
  result in comprehension.
• http//www.indiana.edu/eric_rec/ieo/digests/d112.
  html
• This web site describes low performance readers
  and gives us examples of how we can help our
  students.

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Some ideas for Motivating Students

• http//www.virtualsalt.com/motivate.htm
• This web sites provides us more great examples
  for motivating our students. Some are
• 1.) Have students participate in reading
  activities at school and help get students
  involved with them.
• 2.) Make learning visual give them something
  to look at pictures, drawings, charts, etc..
• 3.) Remember that energy sells be creative,
  proactive, and energetic.

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Motivating middle school students to read -
Aliteracy

• Some facts about literacy
• Our book shows students who read for pleasure
  achieve higher scores on test.
• We (teachers) have to be knowledgeable about
  books, and regularly read and write to put us in
  a position to introduce young adults to the
  pleasures and functional uses of literacy.
• Reading is meaningful to adolescents when they
  can apply literacy processes for pleasure and
  personal growth, for better understanding of
  their world, and expanding comprehension.

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Motivating middle school students to read -
Aliteracy

• Teachers are in the best position to foster
  positive perceptions and attitudes toward
  literacy while giving students regular and
  frequent opportunities to practice and grow as
  literate learners.
• The six Cs for motivating students to read
• 1.) Choice let students help choose books and
  tasks they will enjoy.
• 2.) Challenge give them moderately challenging
  tasks.

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Motivating middle school students to read -
Aliteracy

• 3.) Control students need some control of
  their learning in order to develop independence
  and versatility as learners.
• 4.) Collaboration let students interact and
  cooperate with one otherBooktalks are a great
  example.
• 5.) Constructing meaning active meaning
  construction promotes motivation.
• 6.) Consequences students should be helped to
  see the connection between effort and outcome.

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Bibliography

• Brozo, William G. (2003). Chapter 1. Readers,
  Teachers, Learners. Ohio Merrill Prentice Hall.
• Coiro, Julie. (2000). Motivating Middle and High
  School Readers with Booktalks. (no other
  information given) http//www.suite101.com/artic
  le.cfm/1411/49394.

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Bibliography

• Collins, Norma Decker. (1996) Motivating Low
  Performing Adolescent Readers. Eric Digest. (no
  other information given-here is web address-)
  http//www.indiana.edu/eric_rec/ieo/digests.d112.
  html
• Harris, Robert. (1991) Some Ideas for Motivating
  Students. (no other information given-here is web
  address-) http//www.virtualsalt.com/motivate.htm

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Bibliography

• Kowalewski, Kirsten D. M. (2000/2001). Reading
  Engagement What Influences The Choice to Read?
  (no other information provided)
  -http//www.monroe.lib.in.us/bpmchi/award01.html
• Mendoza, Jean. (2002). Understanding and
  Encouraging a Reluctant Reader. Parent News
  March-May 2002.

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