In the spring of 2015, Katie Dickerson, an 11th grade English teacher at Olney Charter High School, published an article on Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, titled "Reimagining Reading: Creating a Classroom Culture that Embraces Independent Choice Reading". The article discusses the importance of reading and strategies she used to better engage her students with reading more on their own and in class. Throughout a two-year mark, she collected data during the school year and at the end, gave students a questionnaire of how they felt towards these strategies. Today's schools are seeing more children lacking an interest in reading, which is crucial to their intellectual development. In this article, Katie Dickerson noted that "reading… (leads to) the establishment of future goals…, open-mindedness…, the ability to empathize with others,
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Investing in their reading skills now will be beneficial to them in the long run as they finish high school and pursue higher learning and careers. Encourage young students to read in class and at home by offering exciting books to read, planning school library trips, incorporating colorful reading trackers into the classroom, and discussing interesting topics of books they are reading in the class. When one child becomes excited about a book, it can become contagious to other children. In my own personal experience, as a child, my parents restricted TV time and encouraged reading, which I feel had a positive impact on me. I read many books, for personal "fun-reading" and for informative purposes. This expanded my vocabulary and creativity at a young age; I excelled at creative writing and read faster than normal pace compared to other children of my age. To this day, I still enjoy reading and find it relaxing, and enticing. I would much rather pick up a book and read than sit in front of a TV or
Investing in their reading skills now will be beneficial to them in the long run as they finish high school and pursue higher learning and careers. Encourage young students to read in class and at home by offering exciting books to read, planning school library trips, incorporating colorful reading trackers into the classroom, and discussing interesting topics of books they are reading in the class. When one child becomes excited about a book, it can become contagious to other children. In my own personal experience, as a child, my parents restricted TV time and encouraged reading, which I feel had a positive impact on me. I read many books, for personal "fun-reading" and for informative purposes. This expanded my vocabulary and creativity at a young age; I excelled at creative writing and read faster than normal pace compared to other children of my age. To this day, I still enjoy reading and find it relaxing, and enticing. I would much rather pick up a book and read than sit in front of a TV or