I stopped by Tim's room the other day and it was delivery day. All of the classrooms were getting their Scholastic News shipments. You probably know what that looks like, bundles upon bundles of magazines that are all the same.
I'm sure you can imagine that it got me thinking. My sister-in-law, who is also in teaching, had just placed a great article about reading on her Facebook page. It was all about allowing choice in reading back into the classroom in order to get the love of reading back. If you are interested in the article click on the picture or here to go directly to the article.
I'm sure you can imagine that it got me thinking. My sister-in-law, who is also in teaching, had just placed a great article about reading on her Facebook page. It was all about allowing choice in reading back into the classroom in order to get the love of reading back. If you are interested in the article click on the picture or here to go directly to the article.
So I, admittedly, had reading on the brain and then I saw the stacks of classroom magazines. We get a number of class sets of these types of magazines. Each set, roughly, costs a little over $150! What if we shared some of these class sets (one per grade level, not classroom) and used the extra money to buy single subscriptions to magazines that the students might really enjoy and want to read?
If we shared the classroom sets of magazines with another class we would each have $75 to spend on classroom magazines that I think students, especially my reluctant readers, would really like to read!
If we shared the classroom sets of magazines with another class we would each have $75 to spend on classroom magazines that I think students, especially my reluctant readers, would really like to read!
Now, I am off to look into some interesting magazines that I think will be enjoyed by all types of readers! Looks like there will be a part 2 to this post! :)