This document discusses ways to develop lifelong readers beyond just school-based reading. It emphasizes creating a community and routine around reading, providing an environment with reading materials and tools, and being a role model reader. Specific recommendations include reading aloud to others, allowing choice in materials, and providing daily reading time. Developing a reader's heart involves becoming someone who intrinsically enjoys reading widely for entertainment and learning, and appreciates how books can provoke emotions.
29. How to Motivate?How to Motivate?
Read aloud (research is incontrovertible). See Trelease,
Krashen.
Allow choice. Donalyn Miller, Krashen, Lesesne, Beers.
Surround with "tools." What are those for readers and
writers?
Be a model.
Provide time daily.
48. Developing a Reader’s HeartDeveloping a Reader’s Heart
1. Someone with the heart of a reader is already a reader, enjoys
reading, and turns to reading on a regular basis as an activity they
prefer.
2. Someone with the heart of a reader does not need extrinsic
motivation. No points, pizza, or other incentives are needed.
3. Someone with the heart of a reader tends to have friends who have
reader hearts, too. They enjoy taking about books they have read,
comparing notes.
4. Someone with the heart of a reader reads up and down and sideways.
Sometimes they turn to books that are easy reads, and occasionally they
challenge themselves, too. While they have comfort books, they read
widely as well.
5. Someone with the heart of a reader recognizes that books entertain,
inform, provoke, and touch them deep in those hearts. They know books
can elicit laughter, tears, rage, and the full range of emotions.
49. I ended my speech at the ALAN workshop
(#alan12) with a revised reader bill of rights. It is
based on the wonderful book, Better than
Life by Daniel Pennac. Here it is:
Developing a Reader’s
Mind