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Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way
Author(s): Jeffrey Pflaum (Author)
- Publisher: R&L Education
- Publication Date: 21 July 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 282 pages
- ISBN-10: 1610480333
- ISBN-13: 9781610480338
Book Description
Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers: How Teachers and Parents Can Lead the Way contains over 1,000 diverse, original, fun, creative, absurd, challenging questions on reading that will inspire adolescent reading lives from the inside out. The four books of questions contained in this volume are designed to help kids help themselves find their ways to a desire to read. Weekly questions, discussions, and raps, a one-year journey into the worlds of reading compel preteens and teens to face their demons peacefully and to re-create a passion for reading, of course, with a little guidance from their friends: teachers, parents, and this book. Check out some questions:
— What was the first book you remember reading by yourself? What thoughts are triggered by this book? What feelings come back to you?
— Think of a word that makes you feel good. Silently say the word over and over again to yourself. Describe what you experienced.
— Athletes say they’re in-the-zone when playing at their best. Describe your reading when you’re reading-in-the-zone.
— Reading everyday quietly changes your world. Explain.
— Mind-pictures: reading’s little miracles. Explain
Editorial Reviews
Review
Ever wished you could MAKE your students read books? The best thing we, the educators, CAN do is to ignite their self-motivation, to inspire them to immerse themselves in reading books on their own. Author Jeffrey Pflaum, who retired recently after teaching for 34 years in New York City schools, shares the essence of his language arts teaching experiences and skills in his Motivating Teens and Preteen Readers. He gives us all the necessary tools and action plans we need to work with a diverse student body. In this outstanding teaching resource, Pflaum has left no stones unturned. He poses over a thousand and one questions to help educators jumpstart students’ brains with mindful, creative questions that would make readers of all kinds—struggling, reluctant, outstanding or not—jump from their seats and say, ‘Wow! I never thought reading could do that!’ Try his flexible approach and you can be sure that you would create a genuine passion for reading in your students. The book is organized in four parts, the Part 4 being for more challenging, provocative and advanced questions. A number of these questions relate to the two-way reading and writing relationship. These ‘four books of questions’ that employ ‘questioning-and-inquiry technique’ come with complete ‘how-to’ instructions that will help you enable adolescent readers to search for and discover a meaning in reading. They will empower the juvenile readers to take responsibility and pleasure in their reading experiences. The deep questions posed in the book will energize the students to take up reading books as they realize books are their honest and loyal friends, life-long companions. I especially loved the Epilogue with its hundreds of prompts for brainstorming sessions with your students in the areas of reading, reading life, creativity, imagination, and writing. They wrap up in a fun, spirited way, a year’s worth of questions, responding and discussion. I highly recommend Motivating Teen and Preteen Readers for all educators (and parents).
This inspirational book provides a roadmap for teens and preteens to become motivated to read and, more importantly, to want to read. Educators, parents, caretakers, and students unite and learn to become reflective readers through self-discovery and self-efficiency by way of organic inquiry, strategies, mini lessons, and teaching tips, created by an expert educator with decades of successful teaching experiences.
