Reading handout

Reading families, the literate lives of urban children by Cathrine Compton-Lilly focuses on reading in intercity or lower SES households. She mainly discusses how parents in lower socio-economic households view and help in their student's reading lives. She also discusses how to help children in intercity schools read better and more independently. She mainly explores this by helping to pair younger students with an older reading buddy or having students who read at a higher level help those who are struggling.

I chose this text because I've read articles and papers in the past about how students who come from lower socio-economic households tend to struggle more reading. I was curious to see how I could help similar students in my class as well as learn what their parent's viewpoint on their reading might be. I also thought this book would be a good starting point for looking into this topic.

I'll be honest I don't see too much potential in this text specifically when it comes to teaching ideas. it doesn't include any lessons and it is mainly an informative text for teachers or researchers.  However, I do think you could make a few lessons out of this text if you really wanted to.

  1. I would pair this book with The hate you give by Angie Thomas. I think it would be beneficial for students to see exactly what kind of education Star would have had had she'd kept going to school in her neighborhood. 
  2. I could also see this book as good research practice for students, I would have them use this book as a source and write a short article. It would also be interesting to see and share the different angles that students took with the information they were given.
  3. I would have a class discussion on what has helped them the most as readers. What they want to get out of their own reading. As well as how that might be different from their parent's reading lives or expectations. I would talk about the parent expectations from this book beforehand so as to make it relevant for discussion.
This book is a bit dated and some of the terminology isn't up to date. This also includes the research and interviews done for this book. It also is mainly an informative text and therefore would be hard to teach to students. Also, it may be difficult to talk about these struggles with students who have gone to school in those environments.    

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