Post: How do we get them to enjoy reading?
Posted by: Hermione on 9/24/09
How do you convince reluctant readers (some of whom may be
reluctant because they are remedial) that once they get it,
reading is like watching a movie in your head and very
enjoyable? How do you make them see that it is way more than
decoding the words?
I saw a few 7th graders in a classroom who were sitting
there with the books in their hands but they were not
reading them. They were going through the motions. I saw one
student with the book, "The Skin I'm In" which is a title I
have been wanting to take out of the library and read
myself. But this student was not into it. How can we get
even remedial readers to experience the page-turning effect
where you can't wait to see what's next?
