1. Talking passionately about books (example book described: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins)
Instead of saying the book is good, make specific recommendation/introduction of the book (e.g., personal connection, etc.) Try to reach genres and authors when talking about the book. Further suggestions for teachers: A need to develop passions across genres.
2. Being visible as a reader
Physically carry the books when they are running around.
[Ting's comment: How does this happen? Can we allow students to bring classroom books with them to the dinning room and recess?]
3. Create communities around books (another way to keep readers visible)
Fox can be read with every grade.
4. Create an online experience: goodreads.com, which can help to make a book club and keep track of books they read.
[Ting's comment: An online book club is a great way to involve parents and students. Students can see what books other peers are reading/ have read. The options of leaving comments and keeping track of the books they are reading will be very motivating. It would be interesting to have a comprehensive investigation of the users on the website and specifically see how students interact with their peers through these digital literacy activities.]
5. Seek books (in classroom; another classroom; school libraries; public libaries) – the capability to search for books
[Ting's comment: This will cultivate students' research skills: How to search for information they need and how to utilize potential resources.]
6. Reading across the day – out of school
"We are going to try reading at different places: on the train, sitting in an art museum, in a park, etc."
This will help students to get a sense about carrying books and reading across the day.
[Ting's comment: This approach will definitely benefit students' life-long learning experience -- Reading can happen anywhere and reading is a joyful experience.]
7. Form book clubs
E.g., every adult at the school leads a book club.
[Ting's comment: How much time and energy does each teacher need to devote for the book clubs?]
8. Parent workshops/book clubs
Most parents don’t know that most of the children in the country drop two levels in the summer because they don’t read.
[Ting's comment: This is a good approach to get parents involved in classroom literacy activities and let them be aware of the literacy approaches applied by teachers.]
9. Book clubs that test “hot literature”
A mixture of parents and students who will test that “who will be appropriate to read the books”.
[Ting's comment: It will be very motivating to be part of the "test" group.]
10. Read, read, read and read
If you read, your students will be reading too.
Three essential elements in teaching of reading: Visibility, Passion, Integrity
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