“I don’t like to read” we hear from many students.
But what if… we take away anxiety and offer comfort,
take away fear and replace it with excitement,
take away humiliation and throw in confidence,
and take away the struggle of laboring through unknown text and create a class full of passionate readers!
Kids excited about reading and all of them, regardless of their reading level, reading literature with expression and passion. I like this this a lot! Kids love to perform – -they laugh and they’re creative – they lose themselves in the moment. Reading and theatre (no matter how you choose to spell it) are a fabulous mixture for the classroom and create enthusiasm about reading. All these pluses and the fluency techniques described in this article, are simple and affordable to integrate into any language arts curriculum. I cannot wait to try these techniques out in the classroom!
