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=Reading Ideas for Secondary Students and Teachers= 5 ways to use the spoken word to engage students- L.Spurgeon 1. Record a voice memo of them reading a selection of a book they enjoy. 2. Read aloud to each other from class choice of book using e-readers. 3. Get parents and students on a class wiki to write about their favorite books and why they enjoy that book. 4. Use twitter to write poems and opinions 5.Have high School students read their favorite children's book to younger students using facetime.

Using the Spoken Word and Web 2.0 tools to Engage Students - (July 9, 2013, Rhonda Lasser) 1. Frequently read aloud to students, and not always for the same purpose. 2. Read the first paragraph, chapter, or any favorite excerpt of a selection orally (or create a podcast) to hook student interest. Allow students to respond in writing to record personal impressions, predictions, etc. 3. Create a podcast to introduce new vocabulary, literary terms, or any other background material for a selection. 4. Assign a project to encourage students to create their own podcast of a favorite poem, excerpt, etc. Many will find this intimidating. 5. Assign a project for students to create a "trailer" for their favorite book.

Using Web 2.0 tools to get students to read-(post July 8, 2013, Gayle J. Rogers) 1. Asking a big questions and having students read for evidence for and against the question and post the evidence on a web-based graphic organizer, such as Showing Evidence on Intel.com. An example would be: Is Dr. Jekyll an evil person? 2. When students find interesting things to read, share with their friends with a social bookmarking tool like Delicious, Digg, or Pinterest. 3. Read an excerpt of a book aloud on a podcast. 4. Share blog and book trailers on young adult books and encourage students to blog about the books they like. 5. Using web 2.0 tools to do a project on a book and share what they liked about the book with others. For example, they could use animoto and movie maker to make an animated video about a book.

Getting Students to Read - (post July 5, 2013, Betty Love) 1. Give a project where students research to answer designated questions. 2. Students make predictions after a class discussion, read to verify predictions. 3. Word recognition - new vocabulary is discussion with the class. 4. Be an active participant - build confidence of students so they will participate, set rules from beginning about respecting others in oral discussions. 5. Make sure students know how to find books in the Library that interest them/learn how to use e-books on their technical device.

Five Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students - Melissa Marsh 1. Read to your students - novels, poems, newspaper articles, emails, whatever-just do it often. 2. Have students read to younger students. 3. Ask parents to read (and possibly record via podcast) to their child. 4. Read with partners. 5. Give students opportunities to read/recite for an audience.

Five Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students (Eligio Leija) 1. Read story or poem aloud to the students or use a podcast. 2. The podcast or teacher is modeling pronunciation as students read along. 3. Students are paired in twos and read story or poem to each other. 4. The two students will talk about what was read to each other and answer questions from a handout 5. The teacher will ask questions from the handout, and the students will share their answers with the whole class.

Five Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students -- (Anita Richter) 1. Read aloud to the students. Read something you love to the students often. They will love it too. 2. Use podcast for all readers. Have students work in pairs to produce a group podcast. 3. Have students read to each other in groups. 4. Use oral vocab flash cards. Again, use study buddies for this strategy. 5. Have students go to classes that are several grades below them to read something they have written.

5 Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students: 1.) Read alouds or podcasts to introduce lesson 2.) Have students create podcasts for use in classroom-demonstrating skills needed in Health field 3.) Have students follow along as you read to them. Then discuss what passage means. 4.) Develop blog or wiki to help students learn correct way to use in class and in world of work 5.) Using medical related topics, have students develop podcasts or blogs sharing information they have learned on topic. Or, use news blogs on medical topics and have students reply on a class wiki what they think about the topic or the reporting on the topic (become critical thinkers about health issues today and the future). (DHuey)

5 Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students:
 * 1) Have students listen to podcasts of news in the target language and record responses to comprehension questions
 * 2) Have students practice pronunciation with a piece of text and Voicethread
 * 3) Have students create skits in the MFL classroom using a model
 * 4) Have students create stop-motion animations with narrations of their daily routine to record and post online
 * 5) Have a poetry slam in the target language (MSears)

5 Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students: 1.) Read alouds or podcasts allow students to hear a fluent reader. 2.) Listening to the spoken word is less intimidating than reading a text. Thus, students will be more motivated to listen to a text. After reading skills improve, students will enjoy reading and read more on their own. 3.) Students can create podcasts. (This is definitely more engaging then the traditional end of novel essay.) Creating a podcast would be a great end of novel project where students show what they learned from their reading with a radio show or scene reenactment. 4.) In the foreign language classroom, students can record dialogs or even practice pronunciation and good grammar by reading a German poem or story aloud. Language Arts students could also practice pronunciation and fluency by reading aloud. 5.) Read a poem, short story, chapter book, or non-fiction book to students in class. A good reading will make the words come alive and engage students. Students will want to come to class each day to hear what will happen or next, or they might just be motivated to finish the book themselves to see what happens. (A Wilkinson)

5 Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students 1. In history, reading aloud the primary sources to with post-it notes for students to post phrases that they don't understand and work on reading with listening comprehension. 2. The teacher becomes a model for pronunciation and so forth as students read along. 3. Podcasts/Vodcasts instead of lectures so that students can work on listening comprehension without reading becoming an impairment to success. 4. Read-aloud role play for past political and historical oratory in within history. 5. I really liked the efolio that the teacher did - I really would like to incorporate that with students submitting podcasts in conjunction with written essays. (Kortney Johnson)

I am planning to try reading a passage of a young adult novel to students and then using a our class wiki, have them all react to the passage using comparing and contrasting techniques. I also want to use the tools blogging and podcasting to having students to write/record annotations for the book they read, including organizing and disecting the book by recording the title, author, awards, publisher and date, genre, censorship issues, main characters, and brief summary. I want to post these annotations/podcasts on our blog.

I love the idea of having a class wiki. I sometimes go into general ed classes with my vision kids to help them. I would love to collaborate with the teachers on setting up a wiki. It is a great way for students to work on projects together, help each other with homework, and take personal responsibility for their educational progress.

I like the idea of having students use Wikipedia as a research tool. My 10th grade students do a research paper on an Early American author, so they could start with Wikipedia and then branch out from there and find other sources to either corroborate or debunk what the Wikipedia article said. Finally, they can edit the Wikipedia article to reflect what they found through their research. They won't even know they are reading since they get to do it on the Internet! (Chandra West)

Using Web 2.0 tools will help engage those students who normally wouldn't talk much in class. If they feel that their voices are going to be heard and they can contribute successfully, I think they will be more likely to complete the reading assignments. (submitted by Jennifer Carmack)

It would be great if the students could the blog in literature circles. It would also be great to use as discussion board outside the classroom. (Patricia Tanton)

I plan to create a class wiki that would include different pages for each of the novels and short stories we read in class. I'm not sure of the specifics yet, but I like the idea of having students comment in some way on each text. I would also like students to comment on their classmates thoughts about the texts. I think Patricia's idea of using it with literature circles is a great idea, and I plan to use that strategy as well. Also, I think asking students to relate what we are discussing in literature to a current event would generate student interest. (Leslie Hughes)

I plan to have students use a class blog to respond to literature. This allows the student the satisfaction of being published. This will also allow the flow of ideas as students will be required to read and respond to one another's blogs. As the teacher I will blog and respond to student posts as well. (Martha Kohl)

I plan to have my students complete a book study on a novel. I usually allow them to work in small literature circles in the classroom, but instead of grouping them in class, I am going to group them in a wiki. Each group and group member will post specific topics and discussions on the wiki. I will also use the wiki for group and individual projects that I assign in class. I will post all the directions to group and individual projects on this wiki site. (Elizabeth Goodson)

In our social studies classes this year, we are going to have a novel assigned each quarter that supports the social studies content being taught. Our student read very little, and this is our first attempt to immerse them in reading. We are going to purchase class sets of books and create a project for each book to serve as a grade. I would love to work it out so that "book discussions" could take place online- maybe in the wikipages? (Linda Stringer)

I would love to see our students study a book, or other genre/reading selection. Ideally, cross-curricular skills would be learned by employing real-time learning strategies. Extensions of discussions would inevitably increase critical thinking skills and demonstrate applied learning. (Felicia)

The plan to increase reading at the high school level is to incorporate a weekly library visit during homeroom time. On days that we do not have homeroom business, the students will be using this time to read. The librarian is also going to share a selection every month from a favorite book with the homerooms. (Allison Whisenant Delbert)

I plan to incorporate the use of wikis as students read novels to be able to update Character Maps as they proceed through the book or to record different groups' responses. I like the fact that everything in a wiki can be edited. I also like the use of blogging for journal writing, so that students can put their thoughts in print, see them published, other students can respond to them, and I can respond to them. I think it will encourage students to read and be more thoughtful about what they are reading. (Sandy Mallicoat)

I plan to use a class blog this next school year. Working on getting it just the way I want it. (Jennifer Calhoun)

I am retired and will not be trying new things in the classroom, but I have been looking at articles concerning different types of technology and examining some of the useful avenues of Wikis in a classroom. I am impressed with the 5 uses of Wikis in a classroom that were posted in an article by Vicky Davis. They are as follows: lesson summaries, collaboration of notes, concept introduction and exploratory projects, dissemination of important classroom learning beyond the classroom, and individual assessment projects. To accomplish all of these things through the use of a classroom wiki would be outstanding. (comment posted by Rebecca Cox 7/9/09)

I am planning on using a class blog and a class wiki with my students this year. I have been attending technology workshops in addition to this course over the break, so I am hoping they will be pretty educational. I know they will motivate the kids to actually complete assignments because they will be working online with the blog, wiki, e-sheets, and other tools. (Megan Hall)

I love the idea of posting students' work to a blog to "publish" them. Creating authentic work others will read should really help motivate. Karen Park

**Five Ways to Use Spoken Work to Engage Students with Reading**

(Rebecca Cox) A read aloud is a planned oral reading or print exert that can be used to engage the student listener while developing background knowledge, increasing comprehension skills, and fostering critical thinking. There are many benefits of using read alouds. Reading aloud good books can become a tradition and favorite activity in the classroom. An excellent site for information on read alouds is located at:

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The Center for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement (CIERA) maintains a library of articles about using read alouds for engagement and comprehension in their archives.

http://www.google.com/u/ciera?q=read+alouds&domains=ciera.org&sitesearch=ciera.org

**5 Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students with Reading**
(Martha Kohl) Read great books aloud to get students to appreciate the joy of reading for pleasure... Provide discussions during read-alouds to engage the student in using reading strategies... Introduce math concepts using read-alouds... Use read-alouds to get students to think and talk mathematically... Use read alouds with discussions to develop the learner's confidence in their ability to use reading strategies independently.

Benefits of using read alouds
One of the most important things adults can do in preparing children for success in school and in reading is to read aloud with them.
 * Listeners build listening and comprehension skills through discussion during and after reading.
 * Listeners increase their vocabulary foundation by hearing words in context.
 * Listeners improve their memory and language skills as they hear a variety of writing styles and paraphrase their understanding.
 * Listeners gain information about the world around them.
 * Listeners develop individual interests in a broad variety of subjects and they develop imagination and creativity: what better way to build skills which foster inquiry? (Information posted by Rebecca Cox 7/11/09)
 * According to Jim Trelease, author of //The New Read-Aloud Handbook//, reading aloud to children benefits them in numerous ways. Listed below are only some of the benefits a child receives from being read to:
 * **Reading aloud** provides a positive reading role model.
 * **Reading aloud** creates a bond between the reader and the child.
 * **Reading aloud** improves the child's listening comprehension.
 * **Reading aloud** expands the child's attention span.
 * **Reading aloud** helps develop the child's language skills.
 * **Reading aloud** helps develop critical thinking skills and effective communication skills.
 * **Reading aloud** exposes the child to rich vocabulary.
 * **Reading aloud** exposes the child to good grammar.
 * **Reading aloud** stimulates the child's imagination, creativity and curiosity.
 * **Reading aloud** establishes the reading-writing connection.
 * **Reading aloud** provides the child with a lot of background knowledge. The more a child is read to now, the more he/she will learn for use in reading later.
 * **Reading aloud** nurtures the child's emotional development, raising his/her self esteem.
 * **Reading aloud** is FUN, providing the child with the pleasures of reading!
 * (additional posting by Rebecca Cox from Session 5 reading assignment)
 * **Reading aloud** provides the student a voice; an avenue to express their feelings, opinions, and inner thoughts. (additional posting by Terry Green from Session 4 reading assignment)

5 Ideas for Engaging Students in Reading from Spoken Word (Allison Whisenant Delbert) -- Model with Teacher Read Alouds -- Create Book Introductions via Podcasts -- Record Vocabulary with a Media Player and Use as a Review -- Design an "How To" video with Descriptions and Have Students Listen and Complete the Project -- Students Record Own Read Alouds for Struggling Readers

5 Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students 1. In history, reading aloud the primary sources to with post-it notes for students to post phrases that they don't understand and work on reading with listening comprehension. 2. The teacher becomes a model for pronunciation and so forth as students read along. 3. Podcasts/Vodcasts instead of lectures so that students can work on listening comprehension without reading becoming an impairment to success. 4. Read-aloud role play for past political and historical oratory in within history. 5. I really liked the efolio that the teacher did - I really would like to incorporate that with students submitting podcasts in conjunction with written essays. (Kortney Johnson)

5 Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students with Reading (Chandra West) 1. Read aloud/Think aloud with interesting passages from books/textbook 2. Read a poem a day just for fun 3. Connect students' interest in current music to poetry 4. Use audio texts for Shakespeare plays to jumpstart students' own reading of the text 5. Students create their own podcasts (like Mr. Coley's students have done)

Another 5 Ways to use the spoken word to engage students in reading (Beth Todd): 1. Read aloud to students 2. Use podcasting via the class website to read books for Kindergarten or 1st Grade students. 3. Use instructions for using a particular software via video instructions such as YouTube, TeacherTube, etc. 4. Allow students to use video camera to record booktalks and annotations. 5. Use podcasts from itunes, etc., to enrich students in areas such as character education, financial literacy, etc.

1. Teacher and student shared the reading of textual material. The teacher or student would dress like one of the characters. 2. Let students choose their favorite part, after previewing the first chapter, to read aloud with enthusiasm. 3. Read and substitute names of classmates, not in a derogatory manner, for the names of the characters. 4. If a play is read, plan a snack to serve that depicts the locale or time after completing the selection. 5. Divide students into groups to prepare their own podcast or recording. Have a listening group that will have a set of questions to answer after listening. The groups will exchange answers and positions. (If I were in the classroom, I would use some of the links and ideas posted by classmates. Posted by Minnie Dewberry)
 * Five** ways to use spoken language to engage students took me back to these successful methods used while in the classroom a few years ago:

Five Ways to Engage Students in Reading through the Spoken Word (Grace Andres) 1. Read aloud to students (even secondary students). 2. Allow students to work in groups to prepare a reader's theater celebrating the works of a particular poet. Each group could then present its reader's theater in a podcast. 3. Let students read dialogue from stories or plays, taking on the voices of the characters. 4. Revisit the old practice of choral reading. This is something that I did with students when teaching middle school and we had a lot of fun with it. 5. Occasionally let students choose favorite passages from books they have read independently and allow them to read aloud to the class.

Five Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students (Sharon Boling) 1. Read to the students for the first five minutes of the class. 2. Have students to choose their favorite children's book to read to the class. 3. Have students select a poem of their choice (I would have to approve the poems) and do a podcast of the poem. 4. In cooperation with an elementary teacher, have the students do podcasts of Dr. Seuss books for elementary classes to use. 5. Using //Scholastic// or //Scope//, have the students act our and read the plays in the magazines.

5 Ways to Use the Spoken Word to Engage Students (Leslie Hughes) 1. Read aloud to students 2. Have students take turns reading aloud to the class 3. Conduct literature circles where students read aloud in a small group 4. Perform reader's theatre 5. Have students share their favorite passage aloud from texts we are reading in class and explain why they like that particular passage.

**Five Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students** (Felicia King-Thomas) 1. Have students write a "rap" or identify their favorite poem (roses are red...all time favorite-good starter). Next, have them to identify their favorite song (school/radio versions). 2. Have students practice reading their rap/poem to the "flow" of their music selection. 3. Allow students to post their perfected spoken word production to a podcast. 4. Create an author's chair and engage in read alouds daily (teacher and student). 5. Have students identify a phrase or passage in the text or a book to read to the class as an opener for table talk or discussion.

Five Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students - Robyn Sewall 1. Daily read-alouds of all types, articles, stories, non-fiction, fiction, etc. 2. Literature Circles - Book discussions 3. Author's chair book talks 4. Word of the day - vocabulary 5. Afterschool monthly book club - Oprah style

Five Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students (Amanda Denney) 1. Song re-mix: Take verses from popular songs of the students choosing, re-arranging the order. Then, have students read them aloud. 2. Journals: Have students write for 5-10 minutes and then read aloud what they wrote. These can be responses to literature or other curriculum, or they can be random questions of the teachers' choice. 3. Poetry dialogue: Have students partner up with a poem. Have students creatively break the poem into two parts: one for each student. The students will take turns reading the poem, but they will continuously switch voices, turning a single poem into a dialogue. 4. Performing plays: Some of the 10th grade reading is in play form. Why not have students read aloud dramatically? 5. Directions challenge: Have students write directions to things he/she only knows how to do. Then, have them orally give the directions to a partner and see how close that parter gets to achieving the end result. We used to do this in our D.A.R.E. program in elementary school. It actually turns out to be quite funny sometimes!

Five Ways to Use Spoken Word to Engage Students (Jonathan Jenkins)
 * 1) Podcasting: Students can present their own essays or poems
 * 2) Reader's Theater: Students create and present a reader's theater production from a short story or a portion of a story. Dramatizing the language.
 * 3) Literature Circle: Students, in collaborative groups, discuss a story
 * 4) Random read alongs: Students' names are drawn at random three times (replace each student's name into the drawing pot until all three turns are taken) and read three sentences each turn. This keeps everyone on task...especially since they don't know when they will be drawn from the pot.
 * 5) Paired reading: Students pair off and read an assigned selection to each other by alternating paragraphs or stanzas

Five More Ways (Laura Page)
 * 1) Read aloud/read along, even to seniors: I begin reading while students follow along, and then we rotate. Sometimes I pick the next reader, sometimes each student picks who follows him/her, and sometimes we simply go around the room. I prompt unfamiliar vocabulary, which becomes fodder for the word wall.
 * 2) Read plays aloud: Everyone gets a part, and in small classes, two or three parts; I let them choose, and they typically do so based on the first few pages (this can backfire, they often discover!). This becomes a lot of fun when kids find that they are dialoguing with themselves!
 * 3) SOAPSTone poetry analysis: This is a technique I learned in an AP English Lit institute. Whether I'm teaching regular or AP, we read a Poem of the Day, and use this technique to discuss each one. S=subject, O=occasion, A=audience, P=purpose, S=speaker, Tone is obvious. I model this until the students figure it out, and then they gradually take over the discussion. They write it all down in their journals, and summarize what the poem says to them individually. (For those who take the AP, they generally do very well on the poetry section!)
 * 4) When we read Shakespeare and other sonnet writers, we carry on conversations in iambic pentameter. We also memorize and recite passages, such as "To be or not to be, that is the question."
 * 5) Choral reading: I occasionally have younger math students (grades 7-8) read directions on new problems aloud in unison. Sometimes this helps them focus.

Five plus Ways to Engage Students in Reading: (Terry Green)- posted 7/7/2013

1. I use **Word of the Day**. These are a mixture of funny words (blowhole, drivel, dullard), gross words (meldrop), words difficult to pronounce (bibliobibuli, catawampus), etc. I provide the pronunciation and definition of the word. Students must type the word into Pages on their Mac computers. Each day we review the words, beginning with the first one. This is good for retention purposes. Students aren't quizzed on these words, which removes the pressure on them to **have to** memorize it. I use the word in a sentence, and then have them create one. If a student uses the word incorrectly in a sentence, then together, we make it right. It's amazing to see how kids, no matter the grade, enjoy this. If I forget to write a new word, they remind me! That way I know they really like it. 2. I read something aloud each day, that is short, and interesting. This might be a passage from a novel, short story, poem, etc. I fell in love with Rick Bragg's books this year, and his newspaper articles. He also writes for Southern Living. 3. I'll print off the lyrics to a ballad, or song, and the students have to read along as they listen. After listening to the song twice, we discuss the meaning. 4. I use TPCASTT/TPFASTT poetry analysis. Students must read a poem, and complete each category on the template, using their computers. 5. I keep a basket of books on my desk. Each day, I'll choose one or two books to read only the first page, or a section in the book, that will pique their interest. The students will begin to comment, and say, "Hey, can I read that one?" Whatever book they choose, I ask them to share their opinions, or comments about the book with their classmates via a class wiki. 6. Introduce students to wordless picture books. Discussions are fantastic when you use these in your reading class. A few suggestions: __Tuesday__, by David Weisner; __Flotsam__, by David Weisner; __Good Dog, Carl,__ by Alexandra Day. 7. A different technique for using poetry is found in the book, J__oyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices__, by Paul Fleischman. My students had a blast with the poems in this book. After they perfected the technique, they demonstrated their talent to other classes.