Inquiry #1 Fostering a Reading Culture in School
Inquiry Blog Post #1 “Fostering Reading Cultures in Schools” In my Grade 2 classroom, I incite a reading culture with a Home Reading program where students are expected to read each night, fill in a reading log sheet, and bring completed sheets back for a sticker on their certificate. It is encouraged and understood that at the end of the school year there will be a celebration for those students who read the most and there are prizes to be won. I got this idea from the TL at our school who supplied me with the home reading sheets and certificate templates. It has been successful in the past and students feel proud as they see the amount of stickers increase as the year goes by. However, you always get those few kids that don’t fill in their log sheet. How can I get those kids to remember to do so or feel excited about reading? There was a school-wide home reading initiative at the school that was run by the TL for quite a few years, but she stopped doing that due to t...