"Once you learn to read, you will be forever free." — Frederick Douglass This quote by Fredrick Douglas is the notion upon which my practices regarding fostering a love for reading are predicated. This notion is taken a little further in my practice as I message to my students "Once you learn to read-- do it!--and LOVE it!--then and only then will you forever be free! More specifically, prompting a joy and fostering a love for reading for my students comes by way of four steps that I explain to my students. The students have heard me echo, "When you are up... just read, when your are down... just read, when you want to learn something new... just read, when you want learn about something old...just read, when you want to tell others what you learned... just read. The …show more content…
It can take you to places you have never been before and expose you to experiences you have never had. U-(Unities) Reading unites people, cultures, thoughts and things. It gives an understanding for some of the most complex people, ideas, and take us from the classroom to a trip around the world. We have made global connections and united online with students in other parts of the country all because we are good readers. S-(SHARE)Reading like a gift to ourselves, it is personal but intended to be shared. I instill in my students that storytelling and sharing what they have read is a wonderful way to give honor to the author, subject matter, and your audience. T-(TEACH) Reading has to be taught. As does the joy of reading, it has to be taught. In fostering a love for reading in my students I teach reading across the curriculum in all content areas. It is this practice that allows students to realize the broad range of scopes reading offers. R- (Role Model) Model the way. I must lead by an example. My students see me reading everything, all the time. I read to them and encourage them to read to me and each
Many students who struggle with reading ask why should we read, what is the point? The point is that being able to read opens you up a whole new world of knowledge and imagination. But to have that new world opened up you need to be able to comprehend what you are reading. The primary goal of reading is to determine the meaning of
Frederick Douglass, former slave and prominent abolitionist gives an account of his coming to literacy in the excerpt, Learning to Read and Write, from his autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. He offers an immersive and rich telling of his journey to academic enlightenment by using enthralling detail, riveting imagery, and noteworthy metaphors. Douglass’s objective is to prove to the audience that in order to achieve recognition and dignity you must possess the power of articulation and eloquence.
Richard Rodriguez, in the passage “Remedial Reading” from his autobiography “Hunger of Memory”(1982), promotes active reading as a developer of one’s mind. He justifies his position by describing his initial experiences with reading, specifically his attachment to the reading. Rodriguez’s anecdote functions as an encourager of stubborn minds trying to read and displaying its potential to change their life for the better. Rodriguez uses a very descriptive style that may be too verbose for children but compliments the verbosity with enough explanation of his purpose for his message to be known or ascertained.
He now knew what empowered them and what he needed to become empowered, and he states that "The argument which he so warmly urged, against my learning to read, only served to inspire me with a desire and determination to learn" (48). He prized this lesson and took advantage of it. Frederick Douglass now set a goal for himself to learn how to read at any cost.
Reading is an important part of today’s society. Being able to read and write defines populaces as educated, successful and intelligent, since the world revolves around written language. Being literate is a vital tool of survival in today’s civilization. Reading is not only important for basic day-to-day functions, but also helps to form a stronger self-disciple, longer attention span and better memory retention. From the moment a child is born, caregivers begin reading to their child.
Throughout my childhood I enjoyed reading a variety of books as a method of escaping my troubles and delving into someone else’s world for a short time. But it is my belief that being an avid reader also helped me become
Strategies to read: check the pictures, keep track who I talking, say the word the best you can, slow down and check, look at the parts of the word, read part by part, triple check
Over the years while in high school I never understood the big idea of reading, and the significance it has in education. If I could go back in time I would tell
Schools often require reading materials containing unfamiliar subjects to students. Recognizing that there is significance for critical understanding of the text itself as well as the act of reading, this explains why many students today struggle with reading material that is not relevant to their lifestyle. Freire portrays that by the statement, "reading the world precedes reading the word, and reading the word implies continually reading the world" (Freire 286). A person should read their world, and then interpret it. They can then use their existential experience of the world to connect to what they are reading in print, and better understand it.
This point of view is helpful to understand the approach we must adopt with children to spread the love of reading.
These two perspectives are essential for literacy instructions as they provide students the opportunities to share their feelings and thoughts about texts and make connections.
Throughout my life, I have remembered times where someone has read to me or I have read a book that has impacted me. From the time when I was three and my mother would read to me, to today. When I was in kindergarten, I didn’t like to read. I believed that reading was unexciting and that it was a waste of time. Most of the time, I would watch television when I came home from school. Since I didn’t like to read and would never practice reading, I had to acquire help from one of the teachers who would take me out of the regular reading class and she would teach me how to read at my pace. Even though I believed that reading was unexciting, I love to read now.
We are also responsible for finding ways to link the previous skill they learned to their new applied skills. In my case my goal is to teach my students on how to become better readers. My first step will be to effectively teach my students how to decode unknown words. I believe that my will become fluent readers and that is when they will be able to understand what they have read. According to Mr. Lyon video when a child spends too much time trying to bring the print off the page which negates any ability they have to relate to what they read to what they
I have high expectations for all my students. Throughout my 15 years, I have strongly encouraged my students to read for an hour every day. When I taught in a self-contained classroom I had all my students read an
Reading has been a very important part of my life. Without reading I would not be as smart or the person I am today, it was always taught and expressed to me how important reading was to my future from a young age. Throughout elementary school I did not have electronics so my favorite thing was reading. Every day I would come home and immediately continue reading the book I had just started earlier that day. Reading is a very important part of people’s everyday life; knowing this, I have continued to enjoy reading up to this point even if I do not read as much. While my experience with reading has been good and easy going, I know others struggle with reading and it is one of their most dreaded tasks; moreover, most people understand that reading is a key to success.