Motivating Students to Read

I had to share! 
I just finished reading about Ms. Ripp and how she motivates her students to read more.  It is a simple and do-able list of ways to get students excited to read. 
One example I want to try is to show students movie trailers about books!  What a brilliant idea!  I would love to create movie trailers about books that I am going to read in the class.
I hope this list inspires you like it did for me!

Inspiration

I found an animoto from the referred animoto list.  This video is inspiring me to use animoto in my classroom to present new vocabulary words.  Meghan, a second grade teacher from Waterbury, created an animoto video about plants for her science unit.  She used real pictures with plant vocabulary.  Her background matched the content of her video.  It was beautifully done.  Please take a look if you have a chance!




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