Madeline Sanders

Posted on 9/24/09

Kids need to appreciate the relationship between what they're
reading and their real world experiences. Thus, consider
giving them an assignment that will help connect what they're
reading with a real world experience -- maybe a minor project
format-- importantly, it must be exciting -- reading is
laborious when the understanding level is limited.

On 9/24/09, Hermione wrote:
> 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?

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