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10 Good Ways to Become a Good Reader

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If you are already a reader, good for you!  Keep reading.  Good readers make good writers.

What can you do to celebrate your good reading?

  1. Initiate Reader’s Theatre in your classroom.  Ask a friend to join you in acting out your favorite book or poem.  Judy Blume’s The Pain and the Great One is a perfect book with which to start.  

  2. There are also many poetry books that lend themselves to theatre: 

    • Something Big has Been Here by Jack Prelutsky

    • The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky

    • It’s Halloween, It’s Thanksgiving, It’s Valentine’s Day by Jack Prelutsky

    • What I Did Last Summer by Jack Prelutsky    (My students had a great time with all of Jack Prelutsky’s poems but they especially loved “Belinda Blue” in Something Big Has Been Here.)

    • Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

    • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

    •  Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

    • Nobody is Perfick by Bernard Waber   (My students wore out my copy of this book acting out “My Diary.”)

    • The Butterfly Jar by Jeff Moss

    • Kids Pick the Funniest Poems A Collection of Poems that Will Make You Laugh Compiled by Bruce Lansky with the help of 300 Kids

    • A Box of Peppermints by Libby Stopple

If you don’t consider yourself a reader, what can you do? 

  1. Start your reading experience with one great book.  How do you do that?

    • Look around.  See a reader?  Ask him or her for advice on a really great book and check it out from the library.  Get started. 

    • Tell the librarian what your interests are and ask her or him to recommend a good book.

    • Ask your teacher to do the same.  He or she will be very familiar with children’s books that are rich in language and subject matter and also appropriate for your reading level. 

  2. Ask a friend to read the same book at the same as you so the two of you can journal together.

  3. Ask your parent to read the book you have chosen with you, or even better, to you, at night.  (I can remember reading The Indian in the Cupboard to my son when he was in eighth grade.   Ah… we never outgrow the joy of having someone read to us-especially our parents.)

  4. Participate in Reader’s Theatre.  It’s great fun!  See number 1 above.