- Try to avoid the (understandable) inclination to think that if students haven’t done the reading your plans for class will stall. Instead, think creatively about how to approach this dilemma. Avoid shaming students for not completing the reading; it is counter-productive or may miss the larger problem. You could
- use this as an opportunity to talk to students about reading and why they didn’t do it/struggled with it.
- use one of the activity suggestions for this skill as a way to explore the reading during class time.
- spend the first 15 minutes of the class with everyone silently reading until they come to something that either interests them or confuses them, then come back as a class and discuss where people stopped and why.
- choose a passage of the text that you find particularly important and read it out loud; use this to jump-start conversation about the topic, more broadly.
