Promoting+Engagement+in+Reading

**Promoting Engagement in** Reading Through R5 //from Comprehension Shouldn"t Be Silent Chapter 4, page 58//
__**THE IMPORTANCE OF INDEPENDENT READING**__ =**CHILDREN MUST READ BOOKS THAT ARE AT THEIR INDEPENDENT LEVEL //(at least one level lower than their indstructional level)//**=
 * (INDEPENDENT READING)**
 * Remember: Click on "independent Reading" on the left side bar for more detailed information on independnet reading'.**
 * 1. Students who read more in school and for homework read better, have a stronger vocabulary, earn higher grades in school, and have larger speaking, listening, reading, and writing vocaulary ( //Sweet, Guthrie, & Ng, 1998, Anderson & Nagy, 1992, Donahue, Voelkl, Campbell & Mazzeo, 1999; Gottfried, 1990; NAEP, 1988)//**
 * 2. Volume matters. Researchers have found that the amount of time children spend reading is the best predictor of reading achievement.//(Anderson, Wilson, & Fielding, 1988; Guthrie, et al., 1999)//**
 * 3. Access to appealing, interesting texts and time to read are critical if students are going to attain high levels of literacy. (//McQuillan, 1998)//**

**Successful Independent Reading Programs have 8 common elemnts:**
=**//FINDING THE RIGHT BOOK//**= =**TYPES OF CONFERENCES:**=
 * //page 60 and 61//**
 * 1. Use minilesson to teach this over and over throughout the year for many students**
 * 2. Point out to students that most people selects to read for pleasure that are a little lower than thier instructional level.**

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 * 1. __BEGINNING OF THE YEAR CONFERENCES__: the focus may be on intervention. You will asses whether students are in an appropriately leveled book and book. Probe to see that they understand the book.**=====

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 * 2. __STRATEGY CONFERENCES__: The teachers shifts focus to ask students more about the strategy they are working on and to describe how they have applied a strategy on that day with the book they are reading.**=====

**3. __FOLLOW-UP STRATEGY CONFERENCES__: More of the teacher time should be spent listening than in intervention conferences. Listening is important as it gives you a window into their thinking.**

 * Here is a power point on the importance of a Classroom Library**

Book Selection - Genre Charts to help explain the different fiction and non fiction genres.

Follow-up Prompts for Fiction and Non fiction Books