Reading Sage: March 2019

Fun, easy, and fast strategies for turning aliterate readers into reading nerds that love reading. Aliteracy is becoming more prevalent in schools today, especially in boys. Aliterate boys, and what you can do about it NOW! Aliterate, unwilling to read, although able to do so.

MY TOP PICK! Gamebooks | Branching Narrative Adventures

Branching narratives or interactive storylines are making a comeback common trend in visual novels, a subgenre of interactive narrative and adventure games. Visual novels frequently use multiple branching storylines to achieve multiple different endings, allowing non-linear freedom of choice along the way. A gamebook is a work of fiction that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices. The narrative branches along various paths, typically through the use of numbered paragraphs or pages. Gamebooks are sometimes called choose your own adventure books or CYOA after the influential Choose Your Own Adventure series originally published by US company Bantam Books.

Top 10 ways to pump up your students reading engagement NOW, and create a classroom where the love of reading is the norm for ALL students! The secret to great reading ideas is they have to be easy to implement and fun for teachers and students. Changing the way you present reading, change up students seating, eBooks, changing the reading choices and thinking outside the box is the key to changing attitudes about reading. READING BASAL READERS AND DOING ENDLESS ELA WORKBOOK PAGES WILL KILL THE LOVE OF READING FOR THE TEACHER AND YOUR STUDENTS! Time to celebrate your students new found love of reading with these fun ways to inspire your students! Engaged students that love to read are always going to succeed in school and do better on reading assessments.

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[PDF]Motivating and engaging students in reading - Literacy Connects
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[PDF]Reading Engagement in Science - ERIC
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[PDF]Seven Rules Of Engagement: Whats Most ... - the Reading Hall of Fame
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[PDF]Motivation and Engagement - Glencoe
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TOP TEN LIST!

1. READERS THEATER WITH MOVIE SCRIPTS
Readers Theatre or Reader's Theater is a type of classroom READ

ALOUD, in which the students read and perform a play or poem. Students use vocal expression and emotion to read a characters part for their classmates. Reading a play without sets, costumes, intricate stage blocking, and movement helps readers visualize and imagine what they are listening to. This style of read-aloud emphasizes hearing a written text as a better way to understand literature and build background knowledge about characterization, plot curve structure, dialogue, visualization, imagination, cause and effect etcetera.
"Shrek" Screenplay by. Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio and. Roger Schulman and Joe Stillman.

2. SOCRATIC READ ALOUDS | MORE READ ALOUDS AND MORE and MORE READ ALOUDS! Try read alouds with Gamebooks, movie scripts, news articles, fantasy roleplaying game campaigns, and any outside of the box reading materials.

Socratic Read Alouds: Read alouds and think alouds that promote a deep exploration of texts using Socratic discussions that examine text structures, literary element, and reading as a rhetorical exercise. Using interrogational or probing questions that are open-ended, should be used during the interpretation of a text, drawing out students, assumptions, predictions, conclusions, and questions. When teachers and students participate in a Socratic seminar, all ideas, questions, statements and opinions are valued and should be elicited from students during the structured discussions and the students think pair shares. The Rules for a Socratic Read Aloud is, all points are valued and there is no WRONG answer, just opportunities for modification and changes to everyone's prior knowledge including the teachers.

3. READING AND ELA VOCABULARY GAMES | HARRY POTTER: GOBSMACKED Game!

Have your students stand up, or sit on their desk so they are facing the teacher. Start at either end of the room and give a random Harry Potter trivia question to a student (Reading Comprehension question or vocabulary question). If they answer correctly they stay standing until all students have a chance to answer a question. The game can be played as a lightning round with just one quick round or many rounds until you have two kids standing for a few Harry Potter HOT (Higher Order Thinking) questions. When students cannot give an answer to a question they have to say "GOBSMACKED" (Brit slang for dumbfounded) and must sit down. Students that answer correctly get a Bertie Bott's Every Flavor Bean if you are playing the lightning round, if playing for a Gobsmacked champion the game continues until you have a winner. The student that wins usually gets Harry Potter popcorn. Extensions: Students can ask for a challenge question that relates to a literary element, HOT questions, or a Tier 3 academic word that relates to HP, and every child that answers a hard vocabulary question correctly gets a nice small sample of jelly beans or pretzels, stamp, or a sticker. Anytime students' answers any question correctly all students including those that are out, have to buddy buzz with a partner the question and the answer. Students love this activity and it's a great review (Formative Test) of Harry Potter, and a great opportunity to teach complex literary concepts. We start with a mix of easy and hard questions to get the kids excited and motivated to keep the Harry Potter reading fresh and exciting. I ask my students if they want a hard, medium or easy question to give every child a real chance at answering correctly! Background information: We read all Harry Potter chapters twice before we jumping into games like Gobsmacked.

4. READING CUBBIES and ALTERNATIVE CLASSROOM SETTING

Flexible classroom seating is a fun way to add novelty, engagements, and reduce discipline problems. Creating reading cubbies and alternative seating or student-selected setting can improve students reading engagement, focus, student participation, and motivate your students to challenge themselves. I use reading cubbies as rewards for exemplary students.

5. READ COMIC BOOKS AND GRAPHIC NOVELS

The reading Lexile levels and vocabulary concepts are advanced, exposing students to concepts not found in basal reading literature. The stories use nonlinear storytelling and complex literary devices that unfold into complex plot curves, they require students to infer motive, intentions and make predictions. Comic books give students vast exposure to every type of characters in a compact engaging format. Students make fast connections with mainstream media that have used comic book heroes to explore classic elements of drama. Reading comic books are naughty and not part of the norm which makes them something desirable to read.

6. PLAY OLD SCHOOL BOARD GAMES | RISK, MONOPOLY, PAYDAY, AND DnD

7. LEARNING LYRICS AND SINGING SONGS

My class uses music, lyrics, and singing daily to teach reading and auditory processing (listening) skills. Singing and Learning songs, builds fluency, articulation, voice, memory, expression, word attack, cadence, rhyme, rhythm, tone, pitch, vocabulary, decoding, phonics, and FUN! Students are motivated, empowered, freed from traditional reading lessons, and intrinsically motivated when learning to sing a song. Learning to read is a very unforgiving process for many kids, learning a song gives them a great accomplishment in a very short time. Songs enrich and bring to life a student's world in a way that is powerful! My students sing up to 8 times per day during the first few months of school. All you have to do is give students the lyrics and start the song, all else is built into the process. NO FANCY LESSON NEEDED JUST GREAT MUSIC AND LYRICS!

8. READERS AS ILLUSTRATORS | ILLUSTRATING FROM TEXTS

Illustrating settings, characters, themes, authors tone, mood, plot elements or literary ideas from a text gives students an imaginative way to engage with the text at a deeper level. Students select a poem, fairytale, tall tale, parable or fable and they illustrate what is explicitly narrated in the text. Students can illustrate what happened before, after or illustrate an alternative idea.

9. HORRIBLE HISTORIES

"The funniest, yuckiest and most gruesome bits of history in one bestselling series" THE MOST AMAZING BOOKS AMERICAN KIDS HAVE NEVER READ!

Kids love the morbid, nasty, garish and silliness of human nature; and what do we give them, the sanitized, homogenized, clean and I have to say boring at times. Horrible Histories is an award-winning British children's series based on the hilarious writings of Terry Deary. The book series is an irreverent look at the nature of man and the historical events that follow. Kids that hate history, social studies and reading will beg borrow and steal to get the next book in the series.

History (from Greek hismanicus and storiticus “Man Story”) an umbrella term that relates to past events as well as the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about man events. The term includes cosmic, geologic, and organic history, but is often generically implied to mean man history. Scholars who wrote about history in the past were called manstorians or liars. Fictitious Etymology

10. COOKING IN YOUR CLASS | READING COOKBOOKS AND FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS

11. READ ALOUDS WITH A BUDDY CLASS

12. EBOOKS

13. CHILDREN'S AUDIOBOOKS

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