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Are you really reading?

Are you really reading?

“Wild reading is: readers who incorporate reading into their lives along with everything else that interests them”(3)

“All or Nothing– never learning that a daily reading habit built on managing time to read matters more than how many minutes they(the student/reader) read in one sitting” (13)

Miller’s book is spot on pointing out the struggles of students who do not like to read, find it boring, or just plain do not want to do it. I speak from personal experience, as I read all her identifiers for fake readers I thought I would do every single one of those all through out grade school. I do not consider myself a reader there has been very few times that I did and those few times I remember the names of the books I read to completion because it is so rare. I am the book abandoner I have about 15-20 books at home and I can admit to only having read about 5 of them. Many cases was just the not having time to read because of other obligations. The five books I have read form beginning to end I have binge read and all fell under the young adult genre. I remember one of the big things for me was the concept of “all or nothing” I had to read for the time my teacher assigned to me or I would not do it. It was not until my semester of college that I understood reading even for those 10 minutes I had waiting for a dr appointment or etc made a difference

I have lots of experience working with children in school settings and have seen fake readers blossom into wild readers do to finding the right book. It took lots of trail and error abandoning books many times of fake reading but when a student finds a book that really engages them you almost have to pry it away from them to get them to stop. That is some thing I find exciting when it comes to teaching reading the moment you know that child is hooked you know they might not ever look back and jut opened the doors for them to a whole new world of reading.

 

One Reply to “Are you really reading?”

  1. Awesome blog! I can totally relate, I too was a fake reader at times. It’s so hard to read sometimes, because I somehow feel guilty. I know that I have so much homework to do, pick up around the house, and go to work. I too put off reading because I have other obligations. It’s just a matter of making time for reading and finding the right book. It’s so easy for children to binge watch shows, that you would think that they would love to binge read but it is just not the case. I remember being little and reading a book before it became a movie. I was always so disappointed in the movie because they would leave so many things out and change everything. College life has changed my view in reading as well. In high school it was uncool to read when you had free time, however since I am so crazy busy I always carry my school reading in my purse or bag because five or ten minutes do make a difference. Unfortunately I don’t make time to fun read which is a shame but I hope we get an opportunity to do that this semester in this class :). I liked your blog and how much I could relate to it!

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