Reading Strategies 2

One thing that I have noticed from my observation experience (and some past personal experiences, sadly) is that a lot of students do not enjoy reading.  The problem is that they see reading as simply a task to do for school; therefore they do not get motivated to complete reading assignments.  Something that I have seen that tends to work with students is to allow them to choose what they read.  Obviously, this does not work all the time, because there are required materials.  They should be allowed, however, to pick their own reading assignment and have them write some sort of essay over it.  This allows the students to read something that interests them and hopefully helps them to become more motivated all around about reading in general.  Another thing is to have the students read to themselves (as opposed to groups all the time) and find any general questions that they may have within the reading.  When they do this and you can successfully explain the questions and help them to not get discouraged when they do not understand everything that they are reading.