Monday, December 17, 2012

Strategies for Motivating Students Blog: Welcome to the Blog

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 I teach a 3rd grade class, and I use a classroom library to motivate my students to read. I try to keep a variety of genres available to accommodate the interest and reading levels of all students. When I use the reading text I will choose one story a month and have them do a readers theater. They really enjoy that and everyone wants to participate. I have found that this activity really motivates all my students to read because they all want to be a part of it. when developing a literature-based lesson plan I like planning where the students can work in groups. I will group higher level readers with mid to low level readers. This also gives me an opportunity to work with some students one on one. This activity also works for me because my students really like working in groups. I will also give them a writing assignment that they get to work on together.

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