Favorite Prereading Activities 7-12

·      Being allowed to choose any book that you want to read.    

·      Seeing the movie or television production of a book.    

·      Having your teacher bring you to the library regularly

·      Having a classroom library with many books on different subjects and reading levels easily available to you.

·      Having the teacher read aloud a section or chapter from a book.                       

·      Being allowed to read books with lots of pictures in them.                                

·      Having the teacher read aloud a few interesting pages from a book which you 

     can read for yourself later

·      Having your teachers teach with books written especially for teenagers.

·      Having the teacher or librarian suggest a book for you to read based on your   

interests.

·      Being able to buy your own books through book clubs or book fairs or a book 

Top-rated activities were related to:

• Choice
• Student interests
• Teacher read aloud

Vickey Giles, University of Houston, 2005