Live in Love...

Live in Love...

If by chance you have the amazing opportunity to teach reading and writing to elementary students, then you probably already LIVE in LOVE.  It is a wonderful, hard, fun, silly, terrifying, eventful, and playful process, and the greatest joy that you can give a student when you unlock their ability to read a story.  This process only gets better when students can actually read a story that they have written by themselves.

This year as you begin to get to know your students do some of the following things to create a love of reading & writing for your students:

1.  Ask students to complete a reading interest survey to find out 

    what they really like to read about.

2.  Once you have their survey, let them read from those genres!

    I mean it!  If they love motorcycle magazines, comic books, or

    drawing books, then let them have those books.

3.  Talk to them about what is happening in their "stories" they

    are reading and tell them all about what YOU are reading.

4.  Model your own writing.  Your ability to put yourself out there

    will create an environment of "trust", and in turn students will

    put themselves out there even more with their own writing!

5.  Love each other through the process...

XXXOOO,

Reading Girl

Focus ONE Point and Breathe

This year is our ELAR - (English Language Arts and Reading) work we must focus on what is most important.  For me, I can bring that down to one main thing:  Teaching kids to love reading and writing and to comprehend both of those disciplines really, really well!

In order for our students to deeply understand what they are reading they have to get beyond shallow, compliant reading, and shift into deeper reading.  Students need NO acronym based reading strategies to be able to do this.  They absolutely need to learn the natural comprehension strategies that ALL strategic readers use and apply them when needed.

Teach students to focus in on one good reading strategy that is good for them for life, then step back and breathe...it will take them far on this reading journey!

Ready.....Aim......Read!!!!

You'll be happy that you did,
XXXOOO,

Reading Girl