I chose to read Share Your Reading Life. After I read this
article my first reaction was that I need to read more. I was not able to share
my reading life with my class because I felt like I didn't have one. When I was
younger I use to read for pleasure but the older I got the less I read for
pleasure and only read because it was mandatory to pass a class. My original
thoughts were that because I thought that reading a book is what made you a
reader but that is not solely true anymore. After thinking and reflecting, I
realized that I read a lot and more than I think I do. I came to the
realization that I just changed reading preferences. I no longer read for
pleasure I read for information. I'm always researching something or searching
on google. Although it is not a book, I am still reading. With that new found
realization, I am excited to go back and share with my students my reading
life.
Another take away I got from this article is the reading log. I am going to try this out with my class in the upcoming weeks. I already set up a get epic account so that it can keep track of some of the books they are reading but I like the idea of having them write a simple response to the reading. This will let me know if they really read the book and more about their interest and reading habits. This will be a way to place some responsibility on the students as readers. I plan on placing reading log response sheets in my read to self and listen to reading stations and when they leave that station that will be their exit slip. I feel like these reading response logs will help me out a lot. It also gives the students a chance to write and reflect. In the article, Millers states that "We need to show our students that reading means making meaning" and these reading logs will get my students to read with a purpose.
Another take away I got from this article is the reading log. I am going to try this out with my class in the upcoming weeks. I already set up a get epic account so that it can keep track of some of the books they are reading but I like the idea of having them write a simple response to the reading. This will let me know if they really read the book and more about their interest and reading habits. This will be a way to place some responsibility on the students as readers. I plan on placing reading log response sheets in my read to self and listen to reading stations and when they leave that station that will be their exit slip. I feel like these reading response logs will help me out a lot. It also gives the students a chance to write and reflect. In the article, Millers states that "We need to show our students that reading means making meaning" and these reading logs will get my students to read with a purpose.
Hi Shaylla,
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing with us a little bit about your reading life. You mentioned how currently you don't feel that you have much of a reading life and I can certainly understand that with the pressures of being a first year teacher. What I want to suggest is sharing the books you loved to read when you were younger and find that joy for reading again. Sharing those books in a book talk and sharing with students not just what you read, but why you chose that book, and what you learned from it and why you would recommend it to them is a wonderful modeling opportunity and it shows them that we choose to read not because we have to but because we want to. I also loved how you found real world ways to read for information. Showing students how we find topics that interest us even as adults that we want to learn about can help us open up our research process to them so they see why we research with them about topics they are interested in. Talk to me about your ideas for the reading log? What did you learn from Miller about this How would this look in your classroom? Thanks, Dawn
Shallya, your students would love to know the books you treasured as a child. Sharing that information with your students will not only open their eyes to a reading world, but will allow them to grow closer to you. You will become that role model they so need. I would like to know a little more about the reading log and how you would use that with your first graders. I know you will keep it simple.
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