As a student with reading challenges I know how our reluctant readers feel about content area textbooks. The students have no interest in spending their time pretending to read and understand what we put in front of them. But like me, these same kids will become sponge-like if they can read something that pertains to their own life. Think about all of the pamphlets, booklets, and handouts we provide about prenatal development, legal issues, child birth, and fatherhood. These are the topics that most interest them, these are the topics they seek to understand, these issues are what they absorb and then they want to discuss with their peers. They also want to write about all aspects of this journey into teen parenthood.
There is an excellent, brand new blog I found, Ignite, Incite, Inspire. The author discusses how blogging will help students with literacy issues. Please read his easy to follow directions on how to create classroom blogs and I know this will "ignite, incite, and inspire" you to begin the blogging journey.
View my Classroom Blog Proposal
View the rubrics, Basis for Scoring a Blog Post
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