Share Your Reading Life! I really enjoyed this chapter, and it was a good reminder to do this with my students. I remember, as a child, my 3rd grade teacher sharing with our class about her favorite books as a child. I distinctly remember her excitement while telling us about the books!
I know my students respond in much the same way when I share anything personal about myself with them. They love to hear stories about my family, my pets, my travels, my weekends, etc. They also love to hear about books that I've read, or new books that I've heard about that I think they might like. I started out the year doing this as I was teaching the text-to-self strategy while reading aloud to my students.
We have a Book Talk Padlet on our Reading It's Learning page where the students can add recommendations about books that they have read. I also like to share the Scholastic Book orders with the kids, and let them choose books that I buy for our classroom library. I hope my enthusiasm for reading and books is contagious, and that my students catch the reading fever!!!
I agree that any personal connections to what you read or your family reads becomes motivation for many students. Of course, sharing old favorites is great but trying the new titles on for size can work wonders. Becoming one of the readers in the classroom caught up in a new release can really spark a reading frenzy and its tons of fun!
ReplyDeleteLove the Book Talk Padlet idea--do you ever add to that to share your reading life? That would be neat!
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