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Reading Strategy of the Month

Each Wednesday, student, teachers, and even administrators will be picking up books or magazines to read for pleasure. That's right....no homework or required reading!

During A Lunch teaching stops and reading begins. Forget a book? Each classroom has a reading bin where students can borrow material. And don't forget about our Media Center to check out fantastic books.

Parents: How Can You Help? Do you have usable magazines or old books that we can add to our resource bins? Drop them off in the Main Office to the attention of Mrs. Porter-Savoy. Remember to cut any address labels off magazines and be sure they are age appropriate materials.

Reading Tips
Knowledge Needed to Construct, Examine, and Extend Meaning

Point of View : The point of view in any text is the personality, person, or intelligence that the author creates to relate the elements of the story, including plot, character, setting, and conflict. Students typically do not consider point of view to be the author's deliberate choice but rather objective reality.

Voice: Voice is the voice of the author and his/her creation in a particular work. It tends to be either authentic or academic.

What are your teachers reading? FIND OUT

 

Selected Bibliography of Professional Readings:

Downing, David B, ed., Changing Classroom Practices: Resources for Literacy and Cultural Studies,NCTE, 1994.

Langer, Judith, ed., Literature Instruction: A Focus on Student Response, NCTE, 1992.

McCormick, Kathleen, The Culture of Reading and the Teaching of English, Manchester University Press, 1994.

Rosenblatt, Louise M., You Gotta Be the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents, NCTE and College Press, 1996.