Robb, an author, teacher, coach, and consultant, explains how to use student engagement to increase the reading volume in middle school students so that they grow as readers, increase their vocabulary, and improve comprehension. She outlines the principles of engagement, including choice, agency, relationships, trust, sanctuary, honest communication, and reflection, as well as how engagement increases volume in reading and why volume is important, then discusses white privilege curricula, how teachers can confront their personal biases, and how to develop units to reflect diversity and integrate technology; the role of independent reading in reading skills and volume; how to integrate small-group instruction into English classes; how to develop instructional reading libraries; how to increase reading volume using core collections; and suggestions for getting started and moving forward, as well as the benefits of classroom libraries for math, social studies, and science teachers. Annotation ©2022 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
A great resource for any elementary school teacher or literacy coach to help build a love of reading and striving, lifelong readers.
Many striving readers in grades four through twelve have lost their self-confidence and the belief that, with hard work, they can reach a goal.
Whether these students were on a computer reading program, in a grade-level basal program, or listening to a required novel, they weren’t reading. Research by Allington, Krashen, Howard, Miller, and Ripp points to the need for students to read wonderful books to develop reading skill and expertise. Voluminous reading is an intervention.
This book suggests ways to organize instruction so students in ELA classes and across the curriculum read voluminously every day. It will explain that there is no program that is the magic bullet for creating schools full of readers. The magic bullet is having skilled teachers who are ongoing learners and class libraries in all subjects, book rooms for storing instructional genre units, and alternate texts on topics studied in content subjects.
