[MOSAIC] appreciating reading

[thomas]

Just love it...sally


On 1/30/07 6:41 PM, "jkyingling" <yingling5 at frontiernet.net> wrote:

> 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
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