Blog 5/Module 6

While reading No More Independent Reading Without Support, I have come across many great ideas for how to work with building my students reading comprehension and skill.  Now it is time for me to take the information that I have gathered and develop a plan to use in my own classroom.  The authors stated that "when students are engaged in their reading they can read for longer periods of time, read through more difficult text, and increase their reading achievement."  Currently I am working at making an interest inventory for my upcoming class to take in order to grow my library with books that these students may find interesting.  I have also been arranging my books by lexile levels.  I am hoping by knowing  student reading levels and interest I will be able to give them opportunities to read books they find interesting, and that they will be able to read.

The authors also stated, "having student's respond to their IR creates time for them to reflect on what they have read and to push their thinking further by sharing those reflections with others.  I am hoping to try to do a number of types of reflections in the classrooms, hopefully the students will enjoy them all.  Of course if I find that they do not enjoy some monitoring and adjusting will be done!  

As I get closer and closer to teaching this class, I find myself actually excited!!  I have a lot of ideas and even a field trip planned!!!    Wish me luck!