[MOSAIC] appreciating reading

[jkyingling]

This is the exact problem I am having also.  My kids select their own books
but they just don't seem to care or want to be held accountable.  Something
I have just started doing is having adults come in to talk about their lives
as readers.  I got the idea from the book "Still Learning to Read".  This
past Friday, our school librarian was our first guest speaker and she was
wonderful.  She gave the kids a description of a typical day for her and all
the reading she does.  She started off talking about reading the crawler on
the bottom of the screen on CNN and continue on to the cereal box.  She also
shared her favorite book as a kid with the students - Gone With the Wind.
She told them that she read it 17 times and that's when one of my boys (one
that is always saying reading is stupid) pipes up and says - hey, we talked
about the importance of rereading.  Well, needless to say, I was excited.
Over the weekend, this boy read "James and the Giant Peach" and convinced
his mom to come in to tell the class about her life as a reader.  I hope his
excitement continues and the others catch it.
Jenni