Hello! While I am an English teacher by trade, this year I serve as Roth's literacy coach. Please check here for resources to aid your child/student with reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
In January Mrs. Ellen Glena and her assistant Patricia, both from the Henrietta Public Library,visited Roth’s seventh graders to introduce some great new books about warriors, vampires, and teens in all sorts of predicaments.Additionally, they taught us how to download books onto our MP3 players—all that is needed is a library card, which they also helped hand out!We thank them for their wonderful visit.
Roth students are doing a wonderful job becoming serious, habitual readers at school.Thank you for your support on the homefront!If, however, you feel a bit of reading resistance from your teen, ReadingRockets.org recently published some
suggestions by Colorin Colorado .
Let your teen see you reading for a variety of purposes.
Letters, recipes, instructions, newspapers, magazines, and e-mail all count!
Make sure you have lots of reading materials at home for your teen.
Reading materials do not have to be new or costly.The library is a great resource for books, magazines, and even MP3 books.
Give your teen lots of opportunities to read and to choose his/her own books.
Last year, pressed for time with busy schedules, one student read to her mother every day while dinner cooked.And, if your teen needs help finding books that interest him/her, we at Roth can help. Feel free to send me an e-mail.
Look for reading materials related to your family history or culture.
As teens get older they begin to think about their own identities. Reading is a great way to build and/or nurture a healthy sense of pride in one’s heritage and culture.
Don’t worry if your teen is not always interested in pleasure reading.
Teens focus heavily on their friends, activities, and schoolwork, and sometimes they lose interest in reading.Keep lots of reading materials around the house, and they will pick them up when they are ready!
