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December 18, 2016 - All Classes

Published Dec. 18, 2016, 3:58 p.m.

At the beginning of most classes, students talk with each other about their Independent Reading, sharing thoughts about their books and themselves as readers. We have recently upped the expectations for the level of thinking we share. We have been working on identifying and sharing meaningful thoughts - thoughts that could, with continued conversation, lead to deeper understandings of books, authors, characters, readers, people, and even the world.

Students have had 2 or 3 IR+ days since my last blog post. On these days, they update their Reading Lists, which document how many books they are reading throughout the school year. They also explore some new titles, jotting down titles of books they may want to read. They also spend some time reading, with a focus on either their stamina or on observations about how they are reading.