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This weeks reading is all about helping children **want** to read. What do you look for to see if your students are engaged readers? Why is engagement important? Is it enough to just create positive experiences with reading or do we need to do more? The author says that it is usually a single book or series that gets a child "hooked" on reading. She also states, "I need to help some readers find their home run book and that lost-in-a-book feeling."

On page 83 she offers some great strategies for staying focused on reading. How can we explicitly teach children to identify when they lose focus and to help them refocus on their books?

Since some of you are involved in the "Walk to Intervention" model, you might consider creating book clubs or groups with some of your students. In some schools they alternate the strategic, intensive, and on-level groups so that the same teacher doesn't have the same group every nine weeks so it may be possible for you to work with many different students.