Reading

=Class Library= If you can't afford to start building a class library, and if students always forget to bring a book for reading time this is an alternative. 1. Each week for a month have the students find a magazine article, story, internet article, print it off, and bring it to class. 2. Have the student paste their article onto a piece of cardboard (old cereal boxes work well) and make a clear title, and keywords for the content 3. Collect the boards and laminate them. 4. Within a few weeks you'll have upwards of 100 articles for students to choose between for reading time.

=Resources= A FANTASTIC sight called ReadWriteThink. Hundreds of [|lesson plan ideas] around reading and writing, and the best part is the [|student materials] section that has for example, a [|comic creator], [|character analysis mapping], [|crossword puzzle generator], [|CD cover creator] (and those are just some of the Cs!) and then it also [|lists] possible lessons you can use the interactive tools in. include component="editors" days="30" imageSize="small" showUsername="true"