As I've mentioned before, one of my students does not enjoy reading. It has been an uphill battle to get him to read anything, so you can only imagine my excitement when today he asked if we could go to the library to find material for his latest reading contract (a very simple 'bingo' grid of different text types). When we arrived, I could barely keep up with him as he delved into picture story books, novels, magazines and non-fiction books, with the treat of choosing some DVDs and CDs at the end of our session. After some reading at the library, we headed home at the later than usual time of 3.30pm. I told him that school was over for the day and was met with a 'No!! I want to keep reading!' response! Which explains why I'm still at work now - we've just finished an extra hour and a half of reading, discussing and writing. One of the 'must do's of the contract is a simple colour coded rating. When first presented with the rating scale, the response was 'Everything is going to be yellow (awful)'. We have just finished the rating for the two texts we read today ..... the verdict? Red for brilliant. Definitely a highlight day.
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