In a strategies class for struggling readers I taught this past spring, we covered root words, prefixes, and suffixes. My students didn't really enjoy this as much as I did. I tried to get them to enjoy the mystery of figuring out unknown words using clues you know (roots), but they didn't as see it as fun. One day when I was teaching them, I told them I was a bibliophile. They were a little disturbed because, using prior knowledge, they knew a pedophile is something bad. However, we broke down the word. I taught them about "biblio" which refers to books and "phile" which is "lover of." So my kids now knew I was a book lover.
In this blog, I will post about the various books I read and what kind of reader they would be appropriate for. I hope you learn!
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