Reading in the Classroom Can Still Feel Good Right At the End of the School Year Episode 294

About this episode

Trina Deboree shares strategies to keep reading enjoyable for students at the end of the school year.

Send us Fan Mail May can make even your strongest readers feel done, and that end of school year slide is exactly when reading starts to feel like a chore. I’m sharing a simple reset that keeps classroom reading calm, light, and genuinely enjoyable, so we can finish the year with connection instead of constant pushing. The goal is not to squeeze out one more checklist, it’s to make reading feel like something kids want to return to. We talk about why read alouds are the fastest way to reigni...

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Host: Trina Deboree

Topics covered

• reading
• classroom strategies
• end of school year
• student engagement
• read alouds

Keywords

• reading in the classroom
• end of year reading
• student motivation
• read aloud
• classroom reset

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