Jennifer Baehr

  Not sure how much detail to include since the kids will be reading parts of actual text.

I'm thinking of creating a movie to motivate my students to become better readers.  I would have an example of a student reading something like environmental print (i.e. McDonald's sign, stop sign, etc).  The scene would then change to the student chanting "I am a reader".  It would then move on to another student reading a simple text - then switch to them chanting "I am a reader".  Finally, it would show a student (or several students) reading to smaller/younger students harder text and then they would chant "we are readers.  We are all readers and you can do it too".  Maybe I could reverse it and have the students reading the harder text first to a younger child.  Then another student reading simpler text to the same child.  Finally, the younger child could read the environmental text and then announce that "I am a reader too".  What do you think?