Last year I had a group of 6th and 7th graders who hated reading. At the end of a semester, they said they now liked to read (some even said love) because I let them pick any book out of our school library to read, and gave them class time to read. Some students were reading a book a week by the end of the semester.
I also read out loud to them about 15 minutes a day. I picked books I thought they'd find interesting, but that they wouldn't pick for themselves. They got to talk with a partner about their reading every day. ----------- Original message from plongshell <[email protected]>: -------------- > I I have a question for reading teachers who work with middle school or higher kids...after working for years with grades 1-4 and infrequently 5, I'm in a 6,7,8 school providing intervention services. I've worked with middle schoolers before, but not as an interventionist. So many of my strategies deal with the learning to read aspect and using Harvey and Gouvdis thinking strategies, but my kids have had quite a bit of that and are still behind. I'm trying to figure out what are the best kind of generic interventions that can be provided in 40 minute 3 day blocks to my varied students. We aren't supposed to operate as a resource room, and often can't because the kids come from different teams of > teachers. Anyone out there with ideas? > Michelle- NY AIS > _______________________________________________ > Mosaic mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to > http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. > > Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive. > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
