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3 Ways to Build a Positive Reading Culture in Middle School
3 Ways to Build a Positive Reading Culture in Middle School
From spooky read-alouds for Halloween to a spring Battle of the Books, middle schools can use these strategies to get all students excited about literacy.
If you walk into my eighth-grade language arts classroom during the first 15 minutes of the period on Tuesdays and Thursdays, you will see students spread across the classroom reading different books. The books, selected by students based on what they want to read, aren’t assigned by the curriculum. This 15 minutes spent reading for pleasure isn’t connected to any assignment or assessment. It’s a calm and happy time for them and for me; sometimes I even read with them. Although this independent reading time doesn’t require rigorous problem-solving or the creation of any kind of output, I’d argue that it is fundamentally important to students’ future success.
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