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E22S5 Fostering a Love of Reading With Bekki Strong & Lisa Clarke


I sit down with our literacy coach, Bekki Strong, and 3rd Grade teacher, Lisa Clarke, to discuss how to foster a love of reading in our students. We do this by examining a few key parts to Alfie Kahn's article, "How To Create NonReaders", as well as discuss some of what we do in our own classrooms and at school.

0:00 Intro 

0:47 Introducing 

3:39 How to Create Nonreaders article by Alfie Kahn

5:32 Quantify reading assignments

13:34 Student choice in their reading

16:41 Writing Book Reports

21:04 Reading Logs

27:00 What we're doing to try to get our students to love reading

27:45 Family Reading Night

30:44 Lisa's after-school book club

33:23 Book talks

36:32 Wrapping up the article

37:47 Student Segment 

47:17 Conclusion

47:30 Outro

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My blog: Notes From a First Grade Classroom


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