Reading in Schools

It is important to get student's of the 21st century interested in reading in schools because with the new technology in their generation student's are becoming more distracted and less interested in reading. Reading is a hobby that is slowly becoming less popular by the American population. Children who learn to read when they are young and keep reading on their own are more likely to stay in school and eventually get a job as adults. As a teacher their are many ways that you can make a difference and promote your student's to read more. Reading should be fun and teacher's can show this by being an example. Teacher's should not force their student's to read in their own time but they can show them how it is fun to do in their free time by promoting it in their classroom. Another way for teacher's to promote reading to their student's is by giving them book lists with different books that fit many interests. By giving them a list of interesting books that are not mandatory to read for school student's will be more interested in reading because they will not consider these books boring. Teacher's can also email reading websites and lists to parent's of their student's so the parents will have a better idea of what books their children will be interested in. They can get these books for their children to read during their free time or during the summer. Celebrating reading Holiday's in your classroom is another way to get student's interested in reading during the school day. For example, classrooms can celebrate Read Across America on Dr. Seuss's birthday and also celebrate National Poetry Month. Read Across America day can promote student's to read because they will see their peers reading in a fun atmosphere and National Poetry Day will also promote student's to read because this is a time that they can experience poetry. A way to promote reading for pleasure is to let every student pick any book that they would like to read on their own and then at the end of the year their can be a show and tell day to let each student tell about their book and to bring in an object that represents what they learned from the book. Overall, their are many things that teacher's can do to promote reading in the classroom, outside the classroom, and reading for pleasure. It is important that teacher's try some of these techniques because with the increasing technology and distractions of the 21st century less people are becoming interested in the art of reading.