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Plan Now for Summer Reading
May is Get
Caught Reading Month, and it's
time
to
start
making
your
plans
to
encourage
students to keep reading once classes are over. Try these resources to get your
students involved in independent reading all summer long.
Check out the Summer
Reading Calendar Entry
(E-M-S) from ReadWriteThink for links to Web Resources and printable resources
to share with families.
Introduce book clubs to your students now
with the ReadWriteThink lesson plan Book
Clubs: Reading for Fun (E) -- then encourage your students
to meet and read during the summer months.
For a take on book clubs with older students, check out "Watch Out,
Oprah! A Book Club Assignment for Literature Courses" (C) from Teaching
English in the Two-Year College. If face-to-face meetings aren't possible,
suggest online discussion of the books students read.
Prepare for summer reading by asking your students to investigate the reading
process with the ReadWriteThink lesson Developing
a Living Definition of Reading in the Elementary Classroom (E) or the lesson Developing
a Definition of Reading through Analysis in Middle School (M). Using
the
strategies in the lessons, challenge students not only to define summer
reading but also to finish the lesson with at least one new title or genre
they'll read during the summer months.
To structure independent reading and support summer reading, have
students complete a reading plan, a simple wish list of books they hope to read
in the future. The ReadWriteThink lesson Developing
Reading Plans to Support Independent Reading (M) invites students to reflect
on the texts that they have read and then compile lists of books they want to
read next.
Catch students' interest with collections such as
such as "Beach Books" and "What I Read Last Summer: Great Suspense Novels.
During your last
weeks
of school, promote summer reading by inviting students to create brochures
and
flyers
that
suggest
books and genres to explore during the summer months with the ReadWriteThink
lesson Authentic
Persuasive Writing to Promote Real Summer Reading (M-S).
For titles to share with students (or read yourself), take a look
at "Bold
Books
for
Innovative
Teaching:
Summer
Reading
2004" (M-S) from the July 2004 English Journal. This collection
of titles from
last
summer
is
still great
reading!
Even college students can be encouraged to read when classes end. Encourage students
to consider the wide range of texts around them with the Teaching English
in the Two-Year College article "Too
Many Other Enticing 'Texts': On
Why I Didn’t Read Last Night" (C)
For more ideas for summer reading, see the Summer
Reading and Learning
Teaching Resource Collection, which includes links to additional articles,
lesson plans, and other resources.
NOTE: Free access to journal articles mentioned in this Inbox is provided
for 21 days. After this free access period expires, articles are available
to journal subscribers only. This Inbox Idea was published 04-26-2005.
Initials in annotations indicate academic level of the resource (E=Elementary,
M=Middle, S=Secondary, C=College, G=General).
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