Texas Readers Rock

                                                         10 Ways to Raise a Reader

1. Read to your child everyday.  It's never to early to start- even newborns respond to hearing you read.

2.  Continue reading to your child even after your child learns to read.  Older children still enjoy listening to others read.

3.   Make stories come alive for your child when you read.  Be animated and use different voices.

4.  Be patient - let your child read aloud at his or her own pace. Offer help only when needed.

5.  Discuss what you have read together.  Ask questions and listen attentively to your child's answers.

6.  Make reading time special.  Cuddle up in a quiet comfortable spot.  Your child will associate reading with feeling secure, relaxed, and loved.

7.  Encourage your child to read at least 15 min. a day, either to you or independently.

8.  Take along your child's favorite books wherever you go.  Read on the bus, in line at the store, or in a waiting room.

9.  Take your child to the library often and check out a variety of age appropriate reading material. 

10.  Be a role model - read on your own.  Be seeing how much you enjoy reading your child will learn that it is a great source of information and fun!

Remember :  By encouraging your child to read, you are helping to ensure school success.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  Anyone who keeps learning stays young.  The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. 

Henry Ford

Hi,

Welcome to my website.  My name is Dawn Motley and I am one of the Reading Specialist at Joe K. Bryant Elementary School.  This is my 22nd year to teach in Anna.  I spent many years teaching Kindergarten before I started teaching small reading groups. 

My husband and I spend most of our free time with our two daughters.  The oldest one is a sophomore in college and the youngest one is in 7th grade.  Both of our daughters rodeo so we spend most of our time on the road going to different rodeos across the state. We have a lot of fun with each other, and I am very blessed to have such a wonderful family.

Reading is so important to me and I want to encourage all students to become better readers.  Reader are leaders, and it is my job to make them that way.

Please feel free to contact me if I can help you with your childs reading needs.