If you make a student feel like a reader, he’ll become a reader. Donald Graves

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If you make a student feel like a reader, hell
become a reader. Donald Graves

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Academic Literacy for Secondary Students

• Motivating Students
• By Debi Rice

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Reading Reasons

• Motivating Secondary Students

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Building Readers
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Building Block 1

• Students need access to high-interest reading
  materials.

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Building Block 2

• Students must have a time to read and a place to
  read.

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Building Block 3

• Teachers must model the value of reading.

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Building Block 4

• Teachers must stop grading everything.

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Building Block 5

• Teachers must provide structure to a reading
  program.

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Building Block 6

• Students must want to read---they must see whats
  in it for them.

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Why Should I Read?

• 10 Reading Reasons

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Reason 1 Reading is Rewarding

• Favorite first lines/Favorite text lines
• Reading minute
• Reading Thought of the Week

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Reason 2 Reading Builds a Mature Vocabulary

• What do you do when you encounter an unfamiliar
  word?
• Prefixes, Suffixes, Roots
• Predict the meaning

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Reason 4 Reading is Hard, and Hard is necessary

• Want to get your Drivers License?
• An Educated Electorate
• A Proposed Law
• The Fine Print
• Reading the World News
• Selective Service and other applications

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Reason 3 Reading Makes you a Better Writer

• Reading and Writing are similar processes both
  actively engage in constructing meaning from and
  with text.
• Both use a common tool kit of cognitive
  strategies planning, prior knowledge, asking
  questions, making connections, summarizing,
  revising, reflecting, and evaluatiing

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Reason 5 Reading Makes you Smarter

• Brain Exercise
• Read all about it
• Things I learned today (10 things I learned in
  history today)

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Reason 6 Reading Prepares You for the World of
Work

• There is an increasingly dramatic disparity
  between skills children are acquiring in school
  and the skills they will need to obtain a good
  job.
• In 1950s 20 jobs were professional, 20 were
  skilled, and 60 unskilled. In 1990s, 20
  professional, 60 skilled, only 20 unskilled.

• The skills required to earn a decent income have
  changed radically, but little has changed in
  education.
• The gap between the average annual earnings of a
  high school and college graduate has widened
  significantly in the past 15 years.
• No longer will todays high school diploma lead
  to a job that will guarantee entry into the
  middle class.

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Activities

• Get a Job
• Reading is Job One

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Reason 7 Reading Well is Financially Rewarding

• Students are being paid to attend school.
• Average life earnings for non-graduate
  936,000.
• Average life earnings for graduate 1, 216,000.
• High school diploma is worth 280,000.
• Four years of high school about 700 days.
• Students are paid 280,000 for 700 days.
• Therefore students earn 400 per day.
• Therefore students earn 66.67 to attend your
  class each day (based on a six-period day).
  Students who finish college earn a lot more than
  that per day.

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Reason 8 Reading Opens the Door to College and
Beyond

• Getting in College Reading Shape
• The Key to College
• The Road to Higher Learning

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Reason 9 Reading Arms You Against Oppression

• Think about a time when your inability to read
  something costs you.
• James Baldwin said, It is expensive to be poor.
• All of us have been taken advantage of at some
  time or another because of our failure to read
  something accurately.

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Reason 10 Reading Gives You a Moral Standard

• Literature is a great thing.
• Exploring the ethical dilemmas characters face
  and the choices they make requires students to
  wrestle with their morality
• Literature raises questions of the human
  condition
• Think about this
• When our students read great pieces like Romeo
  Juliet, Carl Sagans Cosmos, or the Declaration
  of Independence, or Martin Luther King, Jr.s
  Letter from a Birmingham Jail, or any other great
  works, they are finding their way for themselves
  by joining the human conversation.

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Reading Reasons Across the Content Areas

• Motivating readers is not a content specific job
  and should not be left to one teacher or one
  subject area.
• Think of it as a well-organized campaign that
  extends across content areas, across the school
  day, across the school year.

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Develop Your Own Reading Lens

• Reasons to Read are Everywhere
• What reasons can you and your students come up
  with?