Along with independent reading, an important idea of Wilhelm is helping students to really get lost in their world of the novel. This can be tricky, especially with students that do not have many positive experiences with reading. There are a few strategies teachers can do to best help these students:
1. Draw a character or the scene where the book takes place. Strong readers visualize what they are reading, while more reluctant readers need help with. Asking students to draw out what is happening in the novel helps them practice imagining what they are reading.
2. Write a letter from the point of view of one characters. This allows students to get in the mind of the characters.
3. Read the dialogue out loud. This helps students imagine the texts as conversations that could happen.
Wilhelm, J. D. (2016). You gotta BE the book: teaching engaged and reflective reading with adolescents. New York: Teachers College Press.
“It’s a simple but profound
insight that ‘reading IS seeing,’ and that students who struggle do not see
what they read, or even know that they are supposed to see what they read" -Jeffrey Wilhelm
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