Take the “Road to Reading”

Students will list personal interests and consider their preference for a multitude of genre. They will use these personal interests and genres to write about a dream book. After reading an example of a principal who encouraged a child to read, students are then asked to consider how they have been encouraged to develop a deeper love for books. This activity is offered on two levels, primary and intermediate. The activity correlates with the IRA/NCTE Standard, “Students apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret, evaluate, and appreciate texts. They draw on their prior experience, their interactions with other readers and writers, their knowledge of word meaning and of other texts, their word identification strategies, and their understanding of textual features (e.g., sound-letter correspondence, sentence structure, context, graphics).”

Primary

Intermediate