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Bringing Books to Life with Literacy Cafés
By Alyson Beecher, Principal at Pasadena Unified School District in Pasadena, Calif. |
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 Several years ago I had an epiphany while listening to a friend's 7-year-old daughter read a story from her Language Arts book. The story referenced a variety of literary Jacks – Jack and the Beanstalk, Jack and Jill, Jack jumped over the candlestick, etc., and my friend's child knew every reference.
The next day I went to one of my teachers and asked how many of our students she thought could identify all of those Jacks. She thought about it for a moment and said, "Five percent." I was shocked.
It was then that I knew I had to find a better way to support the students at my school in reading. Click here to learn about an amazing activity that sent us on a journey to create a passion in children for books. |
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'Wish it, Dream it, Do It!' Challenge Inspires Student Reading
Contributed by Yvonne Kittrell, Principal at Rutland Elementary School in Mount Juliet, Tenn. |
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 She's been duct-taped to the wall, had a pie thrown in her face, spent a night reading to chickens in a coop, and even slept on the roof.
So when Principal Yvonne Kittrell challenged her students to reach 10,000 accelerated reading points, she knew she had to come up with a truly outrageous way to motivate student reading.
Keep reading to see what wacky challenge Kittrell agreed to accept. |
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Help Your Students Find Time to Read
By Donalyn Miller, 6th grade teacher at Trinity Meadows Intermediate School in Keller, TX |
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 This summer I had to renew my driver's license. After arriving at the Department of Motor Vehicles and drawing the 112th ticket in line, I wandered over to an empty chair and pulled a book out of my purse and settled in for a long wait.
Looking around, I noticed other readers immediately. Everyone else stared into space or texted on their phones. Considering how much of our lives are spent waiting –at the airport, the doctor's office, or the DMV– I cannot imagine how boring life would be if I didn't read. And that made it easy for me to come up with these easy-to-implement tips on how to carve out time to read at school.
Donalyn Miller is the author of "The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child" (Jossey-Bass, 2009) and writes The Book Whisperer blog for Education Week Teacher. Her articles about teaching reading and education policy have appeared in such publications as Educational Leadership and the Washington Post. |
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| Booktalk: Exciting Titles for Every Grade Level |
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 Use these Booktalks to encourage reading in students of all ages!
Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein –
A superb read aloud to help the youngest listeners learn to have patience while listening. It begs to be read again and again.
Ugly Animals by Melvin & Gilda Berger –
Ugly Animals unlocks the mysteries of nature's most challenged looking creatures and opens the world of science to 1st-3rd graders.
How to Survive Middle School by Donna Gephart
– A combination of fun school story, with a message, will engage both ready and reluctant readers in middle grades. |
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