The important fact of reading

As all of us know to read is a very important part of our leraning process. Until we were only a kids, all adults in our life were always telling us the same thing..."read, read and read!" But maybe this is not the best way to encourage children to read, maybe now as adults we are, we have the responsability to do this in other way.In this post, I will show you the results of my research.

I do not know if you have heard about a website called Pinterest, in this website I have found my inspiration, because there you can find many ideas about what to do with your children in class, how to decorate your future classroom and many ideas about very important things in our future job. It is awesome!

Consequently, in this website I have found many information about how can we make children read in a different way. If we take a close look at any reading book, the structure is always the same, we have the text and then, we have the typical questions about the reading that we can find the answer perfectly composed in the text, child only have to come back to the text and look for the answer. In my opinion, this is not the perfect way to do it, because they do not have to involve themselves in the reading, they only have to reread.

First of all, it is very important to choose a reading according to the age of our children, because in this way is easier for them to understand the content of the book and  they can feel a connection with the characters.

We can show them some tricks to do a comprehensive reading. For example they can use thinkmarks to remarck important things, as you can see in the next picture.

Then, instead of answer the questions of the book we can establish with them a debate or a conversation about their feelings, their opinions or their doubts about the reading. This is a good way to make them thinking about the reading without the pressure of answer questions. We could use some of these questions to start.

Second, we can talk about our own connections with the book or with the characters, and they can make a mind map or a schema with drawings or sentences. Here you have an example. This is a perfect way to involve them with the story and make them speak in english about the reading.

Thirdly, we can propose them to write their own version of the reading, changing whatever they want. As a result we will work their understanding of the reading, because for create a new story from the first version they will have to understand it, and with the previous steps that we did, they will have a wide pack of opinions from their partners about the reading, and now, they could create their own story. At the same time, they will work on their writing, because they will have to use the same structures of the reading and reinforce their grammar.

Finally, I think is very important to create a nice reading time for children, because their parents and us are their examples, and if we construct an awesome reading time, when they will  be adults, they will be grateful for our work. 

To conclude I leave you this incredible sentence that I love i.

"The more that you read,

the more things you will know.

The more that you learn,

the more places you will go."

Dr. Seuss