Motivating Readers with Interest Charts
Posted by KTankersley on 28th December and posted in buiilding strong readers, building reading excitement, getting kids to read, reading motivation, reading strategies, teaching reading
Get students interested in monitoring their own reactions to text by asking them to rate each chapter of a book they are reading on an “interest level” chart. After reading each chapter, students color in the bar to indicate how interested they were in the text of that chapter. Students can then discuss their reactions and what they liked or didn’t like about the various chapters of the book.
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My Interest Level |
Ch 1 |
Ch 2 |
Ch 3 |
Ch 4 |
Ch 5 |
Ch6 |
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Wow – I hate to put it down! This was an exciting and interesting chapter. |
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Good – An Interesting chapter. I enjoyed it! |
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Ok – but not the best chapter I’ve ever read |
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So-So – Gave good info but didn’t interest me much. |
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Boring – I think this chapter should be left out of the book. |
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