Chapter 14 in WK

One of the points the author made in this chapter at the beginning that I liked was the sentence, "I had to learn to think short." She said whenever she required a long book to read many of the students didn't like this so they just didn't like to read. Also, all the strategies under "Selling the Book to Students" was a very good part of the chapter.

I think this is very important because many students are intimidated by seeing very think or long books. It just doesn't look fun for them to read such a long book. Therefore, they may get a negative outlook on reading all together if a teacher always requires them to read long books because they'd rather read shorter one. This also ties into the fact of letting the students choose their own book to read. If this happens then the students, for the most part, will like to read because they get to read the things they are interested in. Also, in the chapter that included the strategies of getting your students to read different books was very important. It taught different ways of getting students to like to different genres using read aloud, creating book jackets and creating a good book box. Some other ways of getting students to read is taking them to the school library and plainly just knowing their interests. These strategies will help students learn how to read different things and expand their reading material.