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I always kept at least a small library in my classroom. I hope to inspire students to read and to discover new things, although in my various teaching experiences, I have never taught an English course. Besides the obvious benefits of encouraging reading independently, the entire content area standardized tests are, in my eyes, a billion times easier if students have excellent skills reading.

I learned from my time teaching in an alternative school that he can inspire even the most reluctant students to read, provided that you have provided a broad range of topics and formats. So what was in my early years of teaching just a small book collection expanded to include more books, sponsored newspapers, and most criminal underutilized resource of all: the magazine. I started with the titles I've already subscribed, then a plan to raise as much as possible:

1. Bring in magazines subscribe (or buy) when you're done with them. I started using my favorite magazine, Wired, a very intelligent way and accessible, covering technology and its interaction with the rest. This has been a huge hit with students in my 9th. Like most people, a Once I'm done reading the magazine, I have none for her. This also goes for all the numbers you pick up along the road. Even if they find Magazine no interest in reading, they can be used for projects (in your class or others).
2. Request free trial questions. I used to process these requests as spam, but I realized that this is an easy opportunity to get reading material more freedom for my students. They are often linked to your current subscriptions. For example, I had two free issues of scanning beautifully illustrated architecture and design magazine, just by sending a postcard that came with Wired.
3. Ask your audience local library. Most public libraries are selling old magazines at ridiculous prices like ten questions for a $ 1. When I reached out donations for my classroom library earlier this year, I was invited to visit a local library and take what I wanted for free. These magazines were old and had already been reduced considerably, but since it was a school of everything that had to do was asked. It helps to know people working at home or volunteer for the library, but again did not hesitate to ask donations.
4. Search the classifieds. Especially for those of you in or near large cities, newspapers and Craigslist listings will often of boxes full of free magazines. Most people are willing to donate they also vanish as long as you are ready to go pick it up. You might even find a wealth of books if you're lucky.
5. Ask for donations from friends, your family and your community. My class has received subscriptions to discover and Mental Floss thank you to the generosity of several people. I was really surprised to see how my students love Discover, which inspires me to keep this project going.
6. Take a stack of free local magazines. Where I live there are at least five free newspapers covering the arts, music, things to do and a list of stories of local interest that students love always.

Take advantage of legitimate free magazine subscriptions

This is the best shot of all. Few time after the beginning of my plan, I remembered that passionate site DVD Talk DVD had a constantly updated list of free magazine subscriptions href = "http://forum.dvdtalk.com/hot-deals-2/"> (click here and go to the first thread). More recently, I found a whole forum dedicated magazines free on SlickDeals.net, a online community that actively seeks the best deals on everything. With these two lists I got free subscriptions for my classroom for Hispanic Batanga Latin Music Siempre Mujer, Spin, EGM, and Latina. There is enough variety on the two lists to ensure that you find something that will pique the curiosity of your students. I said, they are updated daily? They also provide leads on subscriptions at low prices and can connect you with someone who wants to "trade" a subscription, they have one they want to, if you're willing to spend some money.

Things to Avoid:

To avoid spam and overloaded, you should not use your e-mail main register online for nothing. In other words, set up an email address to use just to register on things. If you want to avoid junk mail in your mailbox real magazines are sent directly to the school. This also eliminates the need to remove your residential address before bringing it at school.

It is obvious that you be careful with which magazines you choose to take in. Even Wired, I hesitate not recommended for most classrooms, sometimes questionable content for students. For example, every issue of Men's Health is full of information I wish all my male students would read, but there are a lot of sex in there too. It is not worth the time it would take to wrest the stuff that could get you in trouble just to get one more title. The same goes for many other quality publications.

Tom DeRosa is a teacher, blogger and writer who shares ideas, information and resources to help teachers in and out of the classroom on his blog, I Want to Teach Forever at http://www.teachforever.com

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