With all the work that goes into literacy are we seeing a return? We have training on new strategies every week, with no time to implement and prefect our new strategies before we have to work with a new one. Student are seeing this over pushes sometimes random approach and are not buying in hope instead to ride this new wave of initiatives until the next comes along.
On the up side my student are at least pretending. When its time for sustaned silent reading my students are mostly silent and have a book in frount of them. Being the book is upside down or they stay on the same page the whole time, I don't think their reading. However, I do see students who get board of pretending and read a few words. The strategies I try are always meet with do we have tos and I don't wantas. A few days later there is that student who wants to know are we gonna do that thing with the hats or writing again.
I don't believe we are going to see any real improvement fast, but we are changing the culture. Just a little bit at a time our students are opening up to the ideas of improved literacy. So over the long run if we can keep this up before switching to something new we shall see results. Remember this kinda change won't happen over night. We have spent a long time as educators digging this hole, it takes just as long to fill.
