Research

=What does the Research say?=

=[|Readicide]=

Readicide, a novel written by Kelly Gallagher discusses the fact that in today's schools we teach to the test and have students read only to answer questions like multiple choice questions. This novel discusses having students read for fun and allowing students the opportunity to "get lost in a book." Students need to enjoy reading and the more they read things they enjoy the better readers they will become. This supports the idea of using journal entries to assess students reading and comprehension as opposed to multiple choice questions.

=[|When Kids Can't Read]=

When Kids Can't Read by Kylene Beers discusses many of the different reading strategies you can use as a teacher before, during and after reading a text.

=[|Improving Adolescent Literacy]=

Improving Adolescent Literacy by Douglas Fisher and Nancy Fisher is a book that includes different strategies to use while in different content area classrooms to improve literacy.

I will use strategies from all three of these texts to help my students become better readers in the science classroom.