No More Fake Reading: Merging the Classics With Independent Reading to Create Joyful, Lifelong Readers (Corwin Literacy)

by Berit Gordon

We’ll teach them how to read fiction well over and over again throughout the year, while they’re building their reading muscles in novel after novel after novel, getting ready for the marathon-like stamina they’ll need in college.

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nonfiction as “that body of work in which the author purports to tell us about the real world, a real experience, a real person, an idea, or a belief”

Your job is to guide them on that path with a set of daily reading routines.

“Be regular and orderly in your life,” Gustave Flaubert said, “so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

The critical thing is consistent and substantial time for students to read choice texts and for you to talk to them about their reading. Engaged students are learning.

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Remember this idea. Objective.

“You shouldn’t leave any discussion with the same thinking you had when entering into it.”