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Re: Trying to define "reluctant readers"
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From: Claudia Pearson <pearsoncrz_at_earthlink.net>
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:31:40 -0600
I think the key is to focus on teaching the readers with disabilities copin g strategies. That's what we had to do with our severe dyslexic who had to memorize sight words and learn to keep his finger on the page and do other things as he got older like highlighting key sentences so he would skip ba ck easily if needed. My experience was that my boy really wanted to read, and was interested in a wide variety of things, but he couldn't do it effec tively until he learned to cope with his disability. He became a reluctant reader not because he was not interested in reading but because he was emb arrassed that he could not read when all of his peers could.
IMO, it is not the role of the librarian to help a reader who has a reading disability. That is the job of the parents and reading specialists who are trained to help these potential readers develop coping strategies.
On the other hand, librarians and teachers can teach reluctant readers who do not have reading disabilities how to use their imagination to fill in th e details the text leaves to the reader, how to explore a strange setting o r situation and identify with a character who is not "like" the reader. Thi s is what Kari-Lynn Winters' research focused on, and her methods and resul ts were significant.
But coping .
Claudia Pearson coRA SCBWI SouthernBreeze pearsoncrz_at_earthlink.net
See Award-winning illustrator, EB Lewis, at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators GA, AL, MS Spring Conference '11 in Atlanta - Regi stration is now open! www.southern-breeze.org
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From: Meghan McCarthy To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: 2/4/2011 1:13:53 PM Subject: Re:
Trying to define "reluctant readers"
But what is better? A kid who reads SOMETHING or a kid who reads nothing at all? Because sometimes that's the choice you have. If you read what I went through with my attention difficulties - I actually developed a tick due t o the stress of trying to keep up with the rest of the class. You can't FOR CE reading. All you will end up with is an adult who wants nothing to do wi th literature at all.
meghan
From: Claudia Pearson To: Meghan McCarthy ; "Boagjohns_at_aol.com" ; gmkruse@wisc.edu; ccbc-net@ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Fri, February 4, 2011 2:00:20 PM Subject: Re:
Trying to define "reluctant readers"
I am somewhat opposed to the whole idea of finding books a "reluctant reade r" is willing to read. Reading is not supposed to be just about what a kid already knows, but about expanding horizons.
Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:31:40 -0600
I think the key is to focus on teaching the readers with disabilities copin g strategies. That's what we had to do with our severe dyslexic who had to memorize sight words and learn to keep his finger on the page and do other things as he got older like highlighting key sentences so he would skip ba ck easily if needed. My experience was that my boy really wanted to read, and was interested in a wide variety of things, but he couldn't do it effec tively until he learned to cope with his disability. He became a reluctant reader not because he was not interested in reading but because he was emb arrassed that he could not read when all of his peers could.
IMO, it is not the role of the librarian to help a reader who has a reading disability. That is the job of the parents and reading specialists who are trained to help these potential readers develop coping strategies.
On the other hand, librarians and teachers can teach reluctant readers who do not have reading disabilities how to use their imagination to fill in th e details the text leaves to the reader, how to explore a strange setting o r situation and identify with a character who is not "like" the reader. Thi s is what Kari-Lynn Winters' research focused on, and her methods and resul ts were significant.
But coping .
Claudia Pearson coRA SCBWI SouthernBreeze pearsoncrz_at_earthlink.net
See Award-winning illustrator, EB Lewis, at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators GA, AL, MS Spring Conference '11 in Atlanta - Regi stration is now open! www.southern-breeze.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Meghan McCarthy To: ccbc-net_at_ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: 2/4/2011 1:13:53 PM Subject: Re:
Trying to define "reluctant readers"
But what is better? A kid who reads SOMETHING or a kid who reads nothing at all? Because sometimes that's the choice you have. If you read what I went through with my attention difficulties - I actually developed a tick due t o the stress of trying to keep up with the rest of the class. You can't FOR CE reading. All you will end up with is an adult who wants nothing to do wi th literature at all.
meghan
From: Claudia Pearson To: Meghan McCarthy ; "Boagjohns_at_aol.com" ; gmkruse@wisc.edu; ccbc-net@ccbc.education.wisc.edu Sent: Fri, February 4, 2011 2:00:20 PM Subject: Re:
Trying to define "reluctant readers"
I am somewhat opposed to the whole idea of finding books a "reluctant reade r" is willing to read. Reading is not supposed to be just about what a kid already knows, but about expanding horizons.
---Received on Fri 04 Feb 2011 01:31:40 PM CST
