There have been recent comments that level 1 students can not and even should not read novels. But they can and they should. We cannot just throw books at them. They need encouragement and modeling. They need some time and fun experiences with high frequency words. And they need [...]
This is the book checkout form for my Spanish classes for the first full week of school. Students are checking out books because they want to read them on their own at home. They get little to no credit for this--just the pleasure of reading a good book and [...]
Kindergarten Reading with Big Book & Student Teacher The highlight of the week in my Spanish language classes is usually Kindergarten Reading time. My students enjoy being read to and I enjoy reading to them. It generally happens towards the end of the period on Thursdays. Normally [...]
A girl in my sixth period class keeps mentioning her pet guinea pig, so naturally we have been talking about eating it. Whether they think it is cool or gross, it gets their attention. Here is a short reading in novice-mid Spanish about how the popularity of eating Guinea [...]
Every class is a multilevel class. The schedule may say they are all in level 1, but student reading levels are all over the place, or soon will be. When the spread becomes wide, how can we possibly reach each student? How can we challenge each of them in [...]
Readicide, by Kelly Gallagher What It’s About: Explains how our teaching habits are killing our students’ desire to read and how we can fix it with better methods. Quotable Quotes: “The most powerful motivator that schools can offer to build lifelong readers is to provide students with time in [...]