Chapter 17

Tunnell, Michael O. and James S. Jacobs. Children's Literature, Briefly. 4e. Upper Saddle River NJ: Pearson/Merrill Prentice Hall, 2008.

Motivating students to read is one of the most important and useful chapter throughout this book. In order to get students engaged in reading, students must be motivated to read. This chapter provided many examples and ideas to motivate your students. They give several suggestions in ways that teachers and future teachers may organize their classroom to motivate children to read books. The suggestion that I read and thought was important is creating a reading atmosphere. I remember my 4th grade reading teacher room and it has tons of bean bags and couches and I loved reading because we got to go set somewhere in the room other than our desk. By motivating students though simple thing such as how you set up your room can change their prospective of reading.