When Kids Can't Read - Chapter 14

"Thinking back, I realize that that was how I tried to connect student to reading: book by book. We'd try one, and if that didn’t work, we’d try another.” (Page 282)

I love how this section goes over exactly what we went over in class. We need to find that “homerun book”. If we strike out with a book, we need to throw them another book and try again.

The suggestions about fiction and non-fiction were very helpful. Since I enjoy reading I never thought about the length of chapters, illustrations, or white space in the book. These helped me look at books more carefully and look at them from a middle school student’s perspective, rather than an adult.