The Book Whisperer Handout!

Everybody is a Reader
  • providing students with the opportunity to choose their own book
    • strengthens their self-confidence and rewards their interests
  • free voluntary reading
    • if everyone is doing it, it becomes part of the class's culture
  • requiring 40 books to read
    • 10-20 books is not enough to install a love for reading
  • read with your students
    • students who enjoy the social aspects of school read when it is required to participate in the culture of a class
  • reading notebooks
    • conference meetings about the students and their books, assessing what they're liking and disliking about the book they chose
  • talk about books
    • be enthusiastic about reading, wiling to share opinions and willing to share about their books
  • reading improvement plans
    • commit to a certain amount of reading per day, choose books that personally interest you, reflect on your struggles
Teaching Methods
  • free-reading time in the classroom
  • stop reading novels
    • they ignore what students want to read, devalues the reading experience, not one text meets the needs of all the readers
  • instead, try share-reading
    • involves you to read aloud to students while they follow along in their own copy
  • form book groups over certain themes and concepts that students are expected to understand
  • use short stories, excerpts, or poems, and ask students to apply their understanding to their independent books
  • reading notebooks with response entries
  • book commercials
    • weekly short advertisements to provide students with a forum for sharing the books they love and to recommend them to other classmates
  • oral reading
    • pair students with a buddy, and let the two read the text together
  • books everywhere you look in the classroom!

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