I spy a reader a great reader (How to unlock the literacy secret and get your child hooked on books)
By Jackie French
After doing some reading in the term one holidays, I found some interesting points about literacy secrets and getting your child hooked on books.
-Active child can concentrate for extended amounts of time when it is something they are interesting in. Easily distracted students are those who can't concentrate for long or be settled for long.
-Some children need to learn to concentrate! Turn off the tv, stop the distractions, set good examples, teach children how to be organised.
-Memory games, these are to help students with their memory and this will transfer into other learning areas.
-Slower, they might be slower but give them the time and they will get there! Time needs to be given to these students right from the start.
-bright but bored students, finish their work way before its due and then daydream
-children who need language development tend to find it harder to speak in full sentences, play silently or make sounds and noise rather than speaking.
-Find the right book....that's the first step!
-Children who have missed out, for some reason a long the way of their education some students have missed out on vital learning/teaching maybe because they were struggling with and nothing was done about it.
-visual/hearing problems, could be linked to behavioural problems around reading
-listening and understanding, students being read to and making a story in their mind?
-eating problems, lack of sleep-a little at a time teaching if you know you have these students in your class
-teachers lose most of their readers from age 6 onwards!
-read half the stories with kids and they read the rest, get them hooked
-use magazines, non fiction so they are learning real things about real things/people
-use books and movies to encourage visualising the story
-family reading/group reading to discuss the book and encourage each other
From reading this it has made me think really carefully about what the individuals needs of each student in Marama are. I have also looked at their goals and how these cater to what the students need next. It also made me identify these different types of readers in the Marama Team at school and think about the learning tasks they are doing. A lot of what I have read in this book was about finding the right book for students!! This year as part of Book Bash students chose the book they wanted to read (within reason) and were put into groups by their choice. I was really surprised how this impacted on students mind sets towards reading, some students were really happy just because they got the book they wanted, some were happy and I could tell they felt comfortable because of the people in their group and some students have had the chance to learn from other people and make new friends. Another strategy I have tried is using some of our Book Bash meeting time to start next weeks reading, whether it is me reading or one of the students this way they are hooked into what is coming next.
