Notes from learning unit 3
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This document provides suggestions for motivating reluctant students to read. It recommends building instruction around students' interests, activating prior knowledge with engaging hooks, building confidence, and providing choice beyond leveled texts. It also suggests book talks, book trailers, and sharing motivational strategies across grade levels. Resources mentioned include two books on shifting thinking to what is important for motivating readers, as well as strategies like the RAN strategy for analyzing non-fiction texts critically and using non-fiction books clubs.
Notes from learning unit 3
- 1. Your thinking & sharing from Learning Unit #3 EDR 627
- 2. Motivating Reluctant Students...struggling male readers, ELLs, refugees, those who cannot create a personal response to reading, those students who lack solid reading strategies Suggestions: • Build instruction around students’ interests • Activate prior knowledge with a ”hook” • Build confidence • Provide choice (not always leveled choice; let students have choice outside of levels) • Book talk, book trailers! • Get your staff on board to share motivational strategies at every grade
- 3. Resources for you to read...ideas, shifting thinking to what is important! If you have not yet read these two books, run (don’t walk) to the nearest bookstore & read them this summer! Brand new! http://www.heinemann.com/produ cts/E06157.aspx Especially for 5th grade teachers and above! An oldie but one of my favorites for fresh motivational strategies! The definition for motivating readers: read & listen to Steven Layne!
- 4. Two strategies shared in the discussions RAN Strategy: Reading & Analyzing Non-Fiction. This goes beyond the traditional KWL! If you are overusing KWL, take a look at this to change your instruction and see if you find that helps children read more critically! http://www.myteacherpages.com/webpages/mkiva/ran.cfm Non-Fiction book clubs: Why not use non-fiction with book clubs? https://twowritingteachers.org/2014/05/14/nonfiction-book-clubs-a-snippet- of-an-ira-workshop/ Non-Fiction Reader’s Notebooks: https://www.choiceliteracy.com/articles- detail-view.php?id=1058