Reading Quote #41: Students need to hear your voice
Reading aloud to your students has power in it. They need to hear your voice. .
Reading Quote #40: Reading What They WANT and CAN
Variety. Our students are not all alike. If we want them to grow, we need to let them wander in their reading. They should naturally be reading different materials to suit their different interests and needs. .
Reading Quote #39: There Are No Secret Techniques
There's no magic, just consistency. Stick with it, my friends. .
Reading Quote #38: E-readers are inferior to paper
Paper books are superior to digital, usually by a factor of 2, but if digital is all you have, they are infinitely better than nothing. .
Reading Quote #37: Stop the Interruptions!
Once reading has been interrupted, it takes time to re-focus, so maybe we should take some advice from an old rock band: TIME NECESSARY TO REFOCUS AFTER INTERRUPTIONS • 23 Minutes: Mark, Gloria, The Cost of Interrupted Work https://www.ics.uci.edu/~gmark/chi08-mark.pdf • 15 Minutes: Vasicek, Brent (2011). Squirrel! Distractions in the [...]
WE NEED TO BE MORE LIKE FEZZIWIG
Even small gestures can have a big impact—a look, a word can change a student's attitude and outlook. At the beginning of the holiday season, let's allow Charles Dickens to remind us to do this. We need to be more like Fezziwig. .