We Read to Become: We Read to Read

We Read to Become... is a simple teachers' guide for building a culture of reading with its epicenter being the proactive mandate of principals emanating out to middle managers, teachers, students, parents, and stakeholders creating a mindset that places reading and writing at the core of a school improvement plan.

This paradigm flips the proclivity that teaching reading is the task of reading or literacy teachers. So, every member of staff sees themselves as a teacher of reading. Why? Because we read to become. We read to become teachers, doctors, fishermen, lawyers, farmers, preachers, politicians, musicians, actors, etc.

'We read to become' resets the notion that reading starts at the kindergarten, infant, or basic school level. It enables teachers to reach each student where they're at because it's never too late to start a literacy intervention.

• When do we start? When they can.
• Where do we start? Where they are at.

As educators, we must engender in our students the passion for reading to become; opening their eyes to the fact that if they read, they will become what they dream of becoming. We must inspire our students to read to become... because we believe that students should experience the love of reading and writing. To achieve this, students must be taught strategies and techniques that will enable a gradual release of responsibility from the teacher through a culture of reading and writing. Thus, enabling our students to read at their independent level or at least their instructional level so that they are challenged, yet not frustrated, with the difficulty of the text.

Read to Become.... embraces a systematic plan that requires students to devote extra time (during school time, after school, and the summer) to receive additional assistance until they have mastered the required concepts to make them independent readers.

Author: Chinnese Morrison

Publisher: Independently Published

Publication Date: Oct 17, 2023

Number of Pages: 92 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: NA

ISBN-13: 9798864563304