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Blog 5: Reading Can be Fun

Blog 5: Reading Can be Fun

In my eyes, I see many things challenging about teaching reading due to the fact that I struggle with reading a little as well. I love to read a good book, but my problem is the amount of time we have to read that book, and I feel like many elementary kids struggle with that as well. I believe there are ways around this though. I have been reading a book a week now to try to improve my reading speed, and I think this could help children as well because it is not a forced book, but one of their choosing. It also may be challenging due to many young kids see reading as a thing “they have to do,” and as a bad thing, and as Miller summarized that we need to find a new way to teach to kind of get this out of their head. As teachers we need to adjust to the modern day time, and start thinking like the modern day kid. Technology is alive, and here to stay, and rather judge it as taboo, maybe we can embrace it, and all the reading it produces and can help conform to the modern day child. Another struggle that seems to remain among elementary students is the books that are assigned by the teacher. I had one teacher who was amazing, and took a whole different approach, and had each student write down their likes, hobbies, interests, and what not, and made a list of books that each individual child may possibly enjoy reading. This helped me, as a struggled reader, a lot which made me see reading as a fun thing, not just something we dread. I am very excited to teach reading in the state that I can show them different ways to make reading fun, enjoyable, and not feel like a task. I will be able to strive at making these kids “wild readers.”

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