Lori Crumpton Post #5 December Routman Chapter 4 Teach with a Senses of Urgency

   Teaching with a Sense of Urgency points out many things that teachers can do to help inspire reading in their students.  Ideas like modeling reading to include strategies, and thinking skills, enables students to gain independence in their reading. This allows them to accelerate with confidence. Interactive reading where students partner with others to share their thinking even if only for two or three minutes is another way to get students talking and sharing their thinking skills and gaining independence in understanding.  Teachers setting up excellent classroom libraries and evaluating students regularly. All of this helps to ensure that students become excellent readers.  The author giving tips and ways to make every moment in the classroom count has been a great help.