Chapter 3 Share Your Reading Life By Routman Blog 6-Kathey Tate

It is great to begin the school year by making your reading life visible to your students as you connect the world reading to the school reading. The students will see the power of reading through your enthusiasm and modeling as you read to them. Excellent teaching is essential but students need time to practice and read extensively. Reading success for students depends on a carefully monitored independent reading program connected to an excellent classroom library. It is important for teachers to tell students why they read. Let your students know that you are a member of a book club, get book recommendations from friends, read more than one book at a time, read what interests me, read every day in many genres, newspapers, magazines, recipes, and information on the internet,
need to read to continue working as a writer, use reading to expand my thinking and record memorable passages in a notebook. Teachers should ask their students what they are passionate about. Then help them find a book about that subject.Teachers can encourage students to have a classroom library at home by showing the importance of the class library at school. My students are excited about taking two books home to read with their parents each night. The parents record the books on a reading log. The students can not wait to get two new books each day. I have noticed that the parents are recording books that the students have at home.