8.++Encouraging+Reading

=Encouraging More Reading at the Secondary Level= Rockin' Readers at the middle school. Book Challenges Take time to: [|Literature Book Clubs] [|Tab Book Orders]
 * Collaborate with the librarians in your school and community to encourage reading for the fun of it.
 * Make regular reading for fun a part of your lesson plans.
 * Consider letting students choose their own books to read for assignments.
 * Keep track of your Daily Reading Time (DRT) and have your students do the same. Compare totals for a week. Use the totals as a benchmark and discuss ways to increase the time with your students.
 * Work with administrators and other teachers to make reading a number one priority in your school.
 * Talk about books and reading with your students regularly. Find out what texts teens value: magazines? Web sites? videos? Use these texts as a jumping off place to guide their reading. Read the texts teens value yourself.
 * Align instruction with successful reading relationships that teens have at home.
 * Get to know the passionate interests of individual students outside the classroom and connect these interests to their reading.
 * Ask the families of your students about their home reading habits