One of the most important skills we can impart upon our students is a lifelong reading habit. As Michael Hyatt noted, ”Leaders are readers.” This week we are going to explore strategies to at least get students to do the reading for class.
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Reading is a fuel source for lifelong learning. If you want to be competitive in today’s world, you must continue to read and learn. Our students have not yet figured this out so we must guide them.
The bottom line is that students will assess your class and make a value judgment on whether they should dedicate time to reading. If you do nothing with what students have read or do the reading for them, they will never read.
This episode will take a closer look at strategies for encouraging reading in your classroom. Most of the strategies focus on making the reading assignments count as part of their grade.
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Additional Reading
- ITC: 29 – Success Tips for Creating Engaging Online Discussions
- ITC: 30 – 6 Engaging Online Discussion Strategies
- ITC: 42 – Strategies for Teaching Vocabulary to College Students
- ITC: 43 – Using Concept Maps in the Classroom
- ITC: 90 – How to Get Students to Remember More of What They Read
- ITC: 96 – How You Can Use the Grade Book to Shape Learning
- How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
- Reading Textbooks: The College Plague
- Motivating Students to Read
- How To Get More Students To Read Assigned Readings
- When Students Won’t Do the Reading
- Getting Students to Read
- Building on Course Readings
- Ready to Flip: Three Ways to Hold Students Accountable for Pre-Class Work
- Holding Students Accountable for Reading Assignments
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Very well done Stan.
Students lack of reading is a very real problem and it is up to educators to take action to fix this.
Your podcast had some great suggestions that I will immediately adopt.
Thanks for sharing.
Bob, thanks for taking the time to leave a note. When I was doing research for my book, I was fascinated by how much reading leaders are doing. They have made it one of their most important things to do. It fuels their success.
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