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This year, my students will be working on increasing their independent reading stamina, developing a sense of their reading preferences, and engaging more deeply with books of their choosing. According to research by educators like Penny Kittle, choice reading is a worthwhile investment of class time that pays dividends toward helping students become life-long readers with the intrinsic motivation to continue reading. By discussing what they are reading with their peers and teachers, students exercise speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills essential to their growth as communicators. In addition, the more that students are immersed in good books as models for the craft of writing, the more they internalize the rhythms of language and develop confidence as writers. Our small school does not have a library, making it even more crucial for myself and my colleague in the English department to have rich, diverse classroom libraries. Furthermore, as an alternative high school serving students who have struggled in the more traditional schools in our district, we do not assign homework. So, students are expected to do all of their writing and reading in class. Without a wide range of books for choice reading in addition to our class novels, we miss a tremendous opportunity to allow students to connect with and appreciate the written word and to awaken them to the pleasure and power of reading.

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This year, my students will be working on increasing their independent reading stamina, developing a sense of their reading preferences, and engaging more deeply with books of their choosing. According to research by educators like Penny Kittle, choice reading is a worthwhile investment of class time that pays dividends toward helping students become life-long readers with the intrinsic motivation to continue reading. By discussing what they are reading with their peers and teachers, students exercise speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills essential to their growth as communicators. In addition, the more that students are immersed in good books as models for the craft of writing, the more they internalize the rhythms of language and develop confidence as writers. Our small school does not have a library, making it even more crucial for myself and my colleague in the English department to have rich, diverse classroom libraries. Furthermore, as an alternative high school serving students who have struggled in the more traditional schools in our district, we do not assign homework. So, students are expected to do all of their writing and reading in class. Without a wide range of books for choice reading in addition to our class novels, we miss a tremendous opportunity to allow students to connect with and appreciate the written word and to awaken them to the pleasure and power of reading.

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