Comments on: Creating the Conditions: A Love of Reading http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/ ...sharing stories that reflect on the present & future system of education Sat, 25 May 2013 17:22:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://edublogs.org/?v=3.5.1 By: The Wejr Board - Moments Like This… http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-2295 The Wejr Board - Moments Like This… Tue, 26 Mar 2013 18:12:26 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-2295 [...] is what happens when staff and students work so hard to develop a Culture of Reading at a school… you get moments like these.  The irony is that she read with a boy that likely [...]

]]> By: These Are a Few of My Favourite Links – Education | mum2beautifulboys http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-2235 These Are a Few of My Favourite Links – Education | mum2beautifulboys Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:11:23 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-2235 [...] Creating the Conditions: A Love of Reading [...]

]]> By: Aviva Dunsiger (@avivaloca) http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1852 Aviva Dunsiger (@avivaloca) Fri, 25 Jan 2013 21:20:51 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1852 Chris, thank you so much for sharing these ideas! I’m happy to say that we do have an online catalogue and that helps a lot. I love the “book buzz” and “book trailer” idea. Now you have me thinking! :) Combining classroom libraries is a wonderful idea as well. I’m going to share your post with the teachers at my school. Maybe they can come up with some more ideas. We may have limited library time right now, but it would be great to see what other options we can explore in the meantime.

Aviva
http://www.weinspirefutures.com

]]> By: Chris Wejr http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1834 Chris Wejr Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:19:18 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1834 Hey Aviva – and great question. Long term? Push for more library time. I am a big believer in this but so is our staff – they make our library time a priority. Short term (and long term)? I would look at the many ideas in Layne’s book – like “book buzz” and “book trailers”, etc to market books for kids. The other thing I have seen is teachers combining their classroom libraries to create more selection for students. One other thing that our librarian and teachers do is a book shop in which students tour the library and complete a wish list of books they would like. Once they have completed this list, then you and the librarian can work together to have off-times to take out these books (more work, I know). We implemented an online library catalogue so kids can see which books are available from anywhere that has a computer – this helps too and was fairly reasonable in cost.

Let me know how things go – would love to hear the ideas that you come up with too!

]]> By: Aviva Dunsiger (@avivaloca) http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1749 Aviva Dunsiger (@avivaloca) Fri, 04 Jan 2013 21:52:01 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1749 Chris, this post of yours makes me so excited! I absolutely love reading, and it always upsets me when I hear about students that don’t enjoy it. It’s great to hear how your staff has helped create a culture of “reading for the love it,” and I really appreciate all of the information you shared here. I’m going to share this post with the other teachers at my school. I think it will inspire them as well.

I have a question for you though: what would you recommend doing if you don’t have a full-time librarian? At our school, we have a 0.2 librarian, and she’s actually my teaching partner in Grade 6. She’s not in the library much, and while we do have some open library times, and teachers can sign-up to take their students down to the library at other times, the library is definitely not as “open” as it seems to be in your school. Have you experienced this before? What would you suggest to still make the library available to students when they want to go? If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them!

Thanks for such an inspiring post!
Aviva
http://www.weinspirefutures.com

]]> By: Reading: It’s Kind of a Big Deal | mum2beautifulboys http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1722 Reading: It’s Kind of a Big Deal | mum2beautifulboys Fri, 23 Nov 2012 19:43:08 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1722 [...] Creating the Conditions: A Love of Reading [...]

]]> By: Chris Wejr http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1709 Chris Wejr Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:06:08 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1709 Hey Kempy! That is on my list to read too. I follow Donalyn on Twitter but have not read her book. One of our teachers recently recommended it – thanks for the push to read this one!

]]> By: Creating The Conditions: Instructional Leadership | Connected Principals http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1706 Creating The Conditions: Instructional Leadership | Connected Principals Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:03:07 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1706 [...] Cross-posted at “The Wejr Board Blog”. This is the 3rd part in the “Creating the Conditions” series; Part 1 was on Student Discipline, Part 2 was on Love of Reading. [...]

]]> By: Jason Kemp http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1662 Jason Kemp Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:26:57 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1662 Great post Wejr. I am in the middle of reading “The Book Whisperer-Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child” It was highly recommended during the Middle School Conference this past week.

]]> By: The Wejr Board - Creating the Conditions: Instructional Leadership #Leadership20 http://chriswejr.com/2012/10/10/creating-the-conditions-a-love-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1640 The Wejr Board - Creating the Conditions: Instructional Leadership #Leadership20 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:24:36 +0000 http://chriswejr.com/?p=1927#comment-1640 [...] Honouring ALL Students – The Movement « Creating the Conditions: A Love of Reading [...]

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