My children are struggling readers but through library visits and exposure to a wide variety of reading materials some of them have developed a love for reading.
During these weekly visits my students would be very excited to get to the library I guess partly because they are going on a field trip.However, when they get to the library all but one student who I have to coax rush for books. The students look for books frantically especially if they have done something in class that they were interested. Some of the boys look for comics and some only look for stories with sport I encourage them to choose any book. I was advised that I should structure library visits based on genres but then my ultimate goal of these library visits is to foster a love for reading. I truly believe that developing this love for reading would help improve fluency, and other reading skills gradually.
This week we had test, it may have been a difficult test but it was to the SEA standards that they need to get themselves accustomed to, they did not do very well where Grammar and Comprehension were concerned but I was relieved to mark their Creative Writing. They really tried there was clarity in their letters and they followed a format. This leads me to believe to some extent that the reading is helping but I need to work on improving their Comprehension skills.
ReplyDeleteNow that most of them, I will not say all, enjoy reading for pleasure I feel that they will do well it has improved their writing to some extent but still a work in progress.