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At my new school I teach in the English dept as well as Latin. English has a policy that the chair swears is the best thing they've ever done: Fridays are strictly for sustained silent reading (SSR). It must be a novel (fiction or non-fiction--that is, something with a continuous story line) and every six weeks students must do a "book talk" about their reading. I could explain more but have limited time.
ANYWAY, it seems like the teacher last year had the Latin students reading culture books, histories, biographies or something every Friday. Nice, but they didn't get through their regular Latin texts.
But it has me thinking... maybe not every Friday, but... what if I *somehow* got a class set of Oerbergs Lingua Latina and had SSR for the level 2's and 3's? IN LATIN?
Or maybe instead of sustained silent reading, what about at length reading of previous stories from the text?
I don't know how to do it all... how to finish the textbook and do all of these things, but you know this is what we need to do in order to build reading skills.
gotta dash. just had to get that down on the blog.
ANYWAY, it seems like the teacher last year had the Latin students reading culture books, histories, biographies or something every Friday. Nice, but they didn't get through their regular Latin texts.
But it has me thinking... maybe not every Friday, but... what if I *somehow* got a class set of Oerbergs Lingua Latina and had SSR for the level 2's and 3's? IN LATIN?
Or maybe instead of sustained silent reading, what about at length reading of previous stories from the text?
I don't know how to do it all... how to finish the textbook and do all of these things, but you know this is what we need to do in order to build reading skills.
gotta dash. just had to get that down on the blog.
