Students are learning to choose appropriate books for themselves. Every week, they’re encouraged to switch them to be more exposed to new stories.
We read daily in different ways – lecture avec un.e ami.e (read with a friend), lecture (teacher readaloud), lecture à soi (read to self), and lecture en groupe (group readaloud), so regularly changing one’s books is essential to sustain interest.
When we read to ourselves, we have a special routine in deciding how long we’ll try to read. We use ‘real world’ math in deciding just how many minutes we want to read on a given day. We use number lines to track different lengths of time in minutes.
Once decided, we aim to read that number of minutes following the three basic rules below. After the session, we use a chart to record how many minutes we’ve successfully read.
We know we’ve been successful if we’ve stayed in one spot, remained quiet, and read. Simple yet so hard sometimes!
