I do not know the level of the students but will give six points that could be used to encourage students to love reading novels.
1. Be the role model by constantly being seen reading the novels...you will create an interest in the students.
2. Give assignments that can be answered through the contents of the novels that the students have read e.g. writing an essay or summary out of the novel read
3. You can motivate the students through gift for those who read novels...small gifts, recognitions in front of class, vouchers for lunch etc can do wonders
4. Invite speakers who can talk about the importance of reading (novels) vis a vis how they developed the skills and love for reading
5. Have dedicated library visiting hours ( in a school environment)
6. Ensure the availability of good and interesting novels in your Library and these should be loaned out to the students.
These days the students are more interested in TV and Computers. Unless they find the reading stuff more interesting they will never give it a try. You have to try to develop their interest from very junior levels. The mos most effective method will be the traditional way of story telling in the leisure periods. Just tell them the story upto the point where their curiosity will be stirred and they will be eager to know the rest. Next refer them the book. This policy works in more than 80% cases.
Depends if your student is intrinsically or extrinsically motivated. For the former, it is all about mastery of the craft - be that reading or writing a novel, or some non-competitive quest-based games based on the novel's plotline.. For the latter, it is about external recognition, so theatre or even competitive poetry slam [like turning it into a rap competition] based on the novel would get the creative juice going! Hope that helps you somewhat Bahri! ;-) Tieu2
For further ideas about motivational styles in learning, you might want to start off with this article:
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Thought you might be interested in how [digital]storytelling could be approached from several perspectives:
1. Story as projects [i.e. authoring tools]
2. Story as cognition and sense-making [i.e. media/ resource]
3. Story as social relations [i.e. avatars, role-plays].
Preprint Learning "With" and "From" Digital Storytelling: Reflection ...
To encourage students to read novels in recent times appears difficult because many of the prefer computer based asssignments or things they can get online. However there are ways to encourage interest in reading - one could start with small interseting novels that appeal to the ages of the student; could include what they like to do; students may be motivated when assignments are given in novels and a gift or bonus attached to that; encouraging them to write stories that are similar to what they find in novels may make them read novels too.
Unfortunately students prefer to die first and not read novels !, this is one of the pernicious side effect of the ubiquity and availability of technology and social media which has rendered students sluggish . we need to create the necessary incentive by hook or by crook , and this is a very idiosyncratic situational enterprise . Probably establishing a link between reading novels and technologies like movie industries , youtube, etc could help. we need to increase their engagement in the task as far as possible by reducing the bulk of the activities and making them more harmonious with their affective and cognitive competencies and propensities.
Perhaps a way to get students to read novels might be to adopt the approach used by the Reading Agency in the UK. Every year there are two major campaigns one is the Summer Reading Challege aimed at children aged between 4-14 who read competitively for a gold medal. The other is aimed at Adults who to aim to read 6 books each to gain a certificate and along the way meet to discuss the books in reading groups. This last way might be a way to get your students reading. It seems to work ! A further approach might be to get one student to act as a champion for a book chair the meeting think up questions to start a discussion and then encourage the others to find interesting things to discuss witihn the book. Hope this helps !
you are spot on Carrie, we need to engage them to act as protagonists or other characters on the novels to make it interesting, exciting and tangible to students.
Developing a reading culture ought to be a collaborative home-school arrangement. In the Kenyan context (especially rural Kenya) reading begins and ends at school. Parents (many who are semi literate or illiterate) need sensitization on importance of reading for general knowledge in the lives of their children. Only then will they encourage their school going children to read while at home and not just focus on revision (reading for examinations) as is the trend currently in Kenya.
I started with easy self-help books and once they had developed a certain level of reading habit, then I introduced them to some short novels. It worked in my context.
https://www.bookwidgets.com/blog/2016/09/top-10-tips-for-motivating-students-to-read
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