http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/independent-reading-the-meeting-of-the-minds/ Teaching resources to differentiate instruction. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 17:58:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/independent-reading-the-meeting-of-the-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-1010 sylvia martinez Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:03:50 +0000 http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/?p=953#comment-1010 Funny! Nice way to make some great points. Funny! Nice way to make some great points.

]]> http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/reading/independent-reading-the-meeting-of-the-minds/comment-page-1/#comment-971 Alicia Britt Sun, 30 Aug 2009 06:18:35 +0000 http://penningtonpublishing.com/blog/?p=953#comment-971 Students value what we teach them to value. Getting absorbed in your own book all the time is not an effective way to manage a classroom, but modeling with conferencing can be powerful. I teach 8th grade and I seen many students begin to read independently because I was able to help them find something they would actually enjoy reading. Being knowledgeable about what kids are reading is also a form of modeling. I have a large classroom library and I use Shelfari with my students. They look at and comment on what I have read/am reading. They borrow my books and start talking to each other about what books are cool at the moment. If we don't value reading, and show our students that we value it, they will not. Students value what we teach them to value. Getting absorbed in your own book all the time is not an effective way to manage a classroom, but modeling with conferencing can be powerful. I teach 8th grade and I seen many students begin to read independently because I was able to help them find something they would actually enjoy reading. Being knowledgeable about what kids are reading is also a form of modeling. I have a large classroom library and I use Shelfari with my students. They look at and comment on what I have read/am reading. They borrow my books and start talking to each other about what books are cool at the moment. If we don’t value reading, and show our students that we value it, they will not.

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