Developing Effective Reading Materials

Series: Teaching Children to Read--A 12-Part Study Series

Duration: 28

Year Published: 1974

Creator: Dave Bell Associates

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Uses three classroom vignettes to demonstrate how reading curiosity can be kept alive by developing low-threat, high-interest materials tailored to a student's individual needs. Suggests, as examples, using newspapers, media-related articles, cereal boxes, model toy directions, or having students write their own books. Stresses the value of selecting relevant, success-oriented materials that reflect the individual student's worth., Features Herbert Kohl showing reading materials that are relevant to the interests and natural curiosity of students.

Complete Record: Uses three classroom vignettes to demonstrate how reading curiosity can be kept alive by developing low-threat, high-interest materials tailored to a student's individual needs. Suggests, as examples, using newspapers, media-related articles, cereal boxes, model toy directions, or having students write their own books. Stresses the value of selecting relevant, success-oriented materials that reflect the individual student's worth., Features Herbert Kohl showing reading materials that are relevant to the interests and natural curiosity of students. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.