Reading
Jean Honore Frogonard
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If we teach a child to read yet develop not the taste for reading, all our teaching is for naught. We shall have produced a nation of 'illiterates' -- who know how to read, but do not read. The major purpose for teaching children to read is to help them become readers who readily turn to books for information and enjoyment.
Charlotte Huck, 1973, Elementary School Language Arts, Rand McNally.
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One of our reading goals this year is to create independent readers who read for entertainment. I like to hear, "I caught him or her reading instead of playing video games or watching television."
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To obtain this goal there are several reading incentive programs within the classroom.
One program is IRP, intended to establish reading as a habit. IRP, Independent Reading Program is a weekly homework assignment inwhich the student is required to read for 20 minutes three days a week (the minimum). The student can read whatever they want. A monthly calendar and reading log are sent home and the student is responsible for filling in the reading log and getting a intial of an adult who observed them reading.
Another program is STAR. The students will create a data base of the books they have read, and then put a star on the ceiling of the classroom. I hope to have a huge job at the end of the year taking down all the stars. Ten stars earn a free book from Scholastic.
Book It
is another program to boost incentive. Book It requirements are the same as IRP, but setting a reading goal of pages for the month is required.
25 Books-
Student are required to read twenty-five books at grade level in fifth grade.
Finally, through the exposure to quality literature in a variety of genres the student will be motivated to explore many reading opportunities. I hope these programs are effective in achieving the goal of creating independent readers who will choose a book over other activities.
Reading
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Reading Strategies
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| Strategic reading is reading for comprehension by using strategies that good readers use to understand what they have read. |
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Good Readers
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Visualize
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Make Connections
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Predict
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Question
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Note Important Details
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Synthesis
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Infer
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Correct Understanding
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Each strategy is modeled through text, practiced together and independently.
Genre Study- Realistic Fiction
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