Remember: Teaching Reading
Some givens…things we want to remember about teaching reading:
- Discussion, discussion, discussion. Talk about books with students.
- Relatable choices; build community to discover choices
- It is okay to put books down
- Choice
- Know students enough to offer them choices
- Read whenever there is downtime; Reading habits
- Use resources like Goodreads, Twitter, award winning sites (like American Library Association: Caldecott and Newbery)
- Reading for meaning; various purposes
- Formative assessments in a non-standardized way; genuine learning
- Space. How classroom is set up to create an environment that promotes reading?