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Why Is Reading Important?
Label the top of your page in your “Thinking Spot” notebook with this question and then answer it with all of the reasons you can think of. Write in complete sentences.
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Find, create and establish a place and a time to read at home without disturbance
Seek out recommendations… Maintain a “To Read” list.
Look at your first reading goal.
Find, create and establish a place and a time to read at home without disturbance.
Why is this a good goal for you?What are you doing or not doing now?
Look at your second reading goal.
Seek out recommendations… Maintain a “To Read” list.
Why is this a good goal for you?What are you doing or not doing now?
Look at your third reading goal.
Why is this a good goal for you?What are you doing or not doing now?
Why Do I Have To Read?
1.Reading is fun!
Why Do I Have To Read?
2. Reading builds your vocabulary and you don’t even have to take a quiz!
There were scant chicken nuggets left after the hungry children saw them.
You just learned one new word by reading one sentence
I wonder how many new words can you learn if you read 1,000,000 words???
SCANT
6th grade reading – You will read 1,800,000
words this year if you read
Why Do I Have To Read?
Just 20 minutes athome each day
Why Do I Have To Read?
3. Reading makes you a better writer – we learn to write by reading
“My papa’s hair is like a broom, all up in the air. And me, my hair is lazy.It never obeys barrettes or bands.” –
Sandra Cisneros, The House on Mango Street
My ______ ______ is like a _____, ___________.
(My sentence modeled after the author)My dog’s fur is like a blizzard, flying everywhere.
Now YOU Try!!
Why Do I Have To Read???
Students who read for fun almost every day outside of school scored higher on reading tests than children who read for fun one or two times a week, who out scored children who read only once or twice a month, who scored higher than children who hardly ever read for fun.(52)
4. Reading makes you smarter!
What did that just say?? Rewrite this in your own words
Why Do I Have To Read?
5. Reading is hard, and sometimes we need to read hard stuff!
Car owner’s manual
Job Application
Tax Forms
College Application &Scholarship FormsRule books
And Playbooks
Why Do I Have To Read?
6.You must read to get a job and keep a job!
Why Do I Have To Read?
JOB Education Required Reading
Fire fighter AcademyOn going training
ScienceChemistryFire codesMedical/first aidMaps
You must read to get a job and keep a job!
What job are YOU interested in? What kind of reading will you have to do?
Why Do I Have To Read???
Why Do I Have To Read?
JOB Education Required
Required Reading/Writing
Information due _______
Draw this chart and find out what education and reading is required to do a jobyou would like to have some day.
The more you read, The more you know.
The more you know, The smarter you’ll grow.
The smarter you are, The longer you will stay in school and the The more diplomas you will earn.
The more diplomas you’ll have The longer you will live
Why Do I Have To Read?
The less you read The less you’ll know
The less you know The less likely you are to finish school
The sooner you drop out of schoolThe longer you’ll be unemployed
The sooner you drop out of schoolThe greater the chance of trouble in life.
Why Do I Have To Read?
Why Do You Have To Read?
Create a bookmark that neatly depicts 5+ reasons readingis important. Use the notes you just took to add specific details.
This bookmark can have:• pictures, • words,• clip art, • magazine clippingsWhatever you want!
Why I Read
It’s fun!
Robb, Laura. Teaching Reading in the Content Area. Scholastic. New York. 2005. Works Cited
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