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There are three things children need to become self-sufficient readers, and they’re pretty simple: access to books, choice about what to read, and to feel the love when it comes to the reading experience, especially at first.
1. Access to Books See Richard Allington’s extensive research about how important it is for children to be able to browse and find books on a wide variety of topics. A classroom book shelf with 20 titles isn’t sufficient, even for one reader. Allington’s research shows that even in schools with well-stocked libraries, students read more if their classroom libraries are also full of high-quality books, because students probably only visit the school library once or twice a week. This access is also important from home, because it greatly increases the chances that children will read. 2. Choice in Books Children need to be able to choose books for themselves. Preferences vary widely and no reader enjoys a book that feels stale – so it doesn’t make sense to insist that children read things they actively dislike. 3. Book Love Love for books can be generated by modeling and by positive associations with reading. Modeling involves surrounding a child with people who are positive about reading – and who actually read themselves. When kids see their parents, teachers, and older siblings reading for pleasure, this is a powerful lesson that reading has value and is worth the time.
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I often struggle with gifts for students. I definitely over-think things, trying to find exactly the right match for each individual student, trying to be environmentally and budget and time friendly, and (frequently) vastly over-estimating my crafty quotient. My favorite gifts are always books, but I wanted a little splash of Even More Special on top, so here's what I came up with for my fifth graders this year. I decided I wanted to focus on the possibilities for students as they move on to middle school, and into the larger community and the world - and that became my theme. I wrote this free verse poem:  Into the World Letter I found some cute globe squeeze balls and chocolate kiss stickers with a travel theme online. The globes have countries with labels, and the stickers have messages like "The World Awaits" and "Let the Adventure Begin."
Of course, I found a book for each student, too . . . because those are wonderful adventures. Wishing "my" students a fond farewell as they leave elementary school and take on new roles and challenges! I will miss you, and at the same time, I am thrilled for you. Thank you for sharing this part of your path with me this year! Teacher Appreciation Week is drawing near, and while I hate to violate etiquette by appearing to anticipate gifts, I see online questions like this all the time: what is a good gift for the teacher(s) in your life?
Time and money are precious, and, while any gift is a kind gesture, I hate for families to have to spend either on objects that may go unused. It's understood that not everyone has the means or inclination to buy or do anything, and that people will make choices that best suit their beliefs and situations. Here, without pressure or expectation, are my recommendations for gifts teachers love. As part of our poetry unit, my fifth graders and I read a great book called The Best Part of Me. It's a collection of student poetry combined with photography by Wendy Ewald. My students and I discussed different poems from this book and why they did or did not necessarily speak to us. We looked at elements like repetition and figurative language that the authors used. It wouldn't have been any fun if we hadn't tried our own! Here, used with permission by the authors, are some of our poems. What strategies do you think these authors have used successfully? My Eyes |
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- Airborn >
- Alex Rider - series
- All Fall Down
- All the Answers
- All the Broken Pieces
- All You Knead is Love
- Allegedly
- All's Faire in Middle School
- Amal Unbound
- Amazing Grace
- American Born Chinese
- Amina's Voice
- Among the Hidden - series
- Anger is a Gift
- Anne of Green Gables - series >
- Artemis Fowl - series
- Athlete vs. Mathlete
- Awkward
- The Bad Apple - Merits of Mischief
- Bad Princess: True Tales from Behind the Tiara
- Bamboo People
- Ban This Book
- Because of Mr. Terupt
- Bernice Buttman, Model Citizen
- Bionic
- The Black Pearl
- Blended
- Blue Jasmine
- Bomb: The Race to Make - and Steal - the World's Most Dangerous Weapon
- The Book of a Thousand Days
- Booked
- A Boy Called Bat
- Boys Without Names
- The Breadwinner Trilogy
- Breaking Stalin's Nose
- Bright
- Brown Girl Dreaming
- Bud, Not Buddy
- Bump
- The Cardturner
- Carry On
- Caterpillar Summer
- Catherine, Called Birdy >
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
- Chasing Secrets
- Chasing Vermeer
- Checked
- Chronicles of Prydain
- Chu Ju's House
- Circa Now
- Click
- Climbing the Stairs
- Code Name Verity - Series
- Code Talker
- Colin Fischer
- Come November
- Confetti Girl
- Count Me In
- Counting By 7s
- Courage for Beginners
- The Courage Test
- Crenshaw
- Criss Cross
- A Crooked Kind of Perfect
- Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip
- Dangerous
- Dead End in Norvelt
- Dealing with Dragons
- Dear Mr. Henshaw
- A Diamond in the Desert
- The Dirt Diary - Series
- Divergent - Series
- Does My Head Look Big in This?
- Dog Man
- Dog Whisperer - Series
- Drive Me Crazy
- A Drop of Hope
- Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie
- Echo
- El Deafo
- Eleanor & Park
- Elephant Secret
- Eleven Birthdays
- Elijah of Buxton
- Ella Enchanted
- Ellen Outside the Lines
- Emma-Jean Lazarus Fell Out of a Tree
- Ender's Game
- Enna Burning
- Enola Holmes
- Eragon
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library
- Escape Under the Forever Sky
- Esperanza Rising >
- Eventown
- Ever
- Ever After High
- Every Shiny Thing
- Everything on a Waffle
- Fairest
- Falling Over Sideways
- The False Prince Series
- Fake Mustache
- Family Game Night and Other Catastrophes
- Famous Phonies
- Feathers
- Fever, 1793
- The Fifth Wave
- Fifty-Four Things Wrong with Gwendolyn Rogers
- The 57 Bus
- Finding Perfect
- The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman
- The Fire, The Water, and Maudie McGinn
- The First Rule of Punk
- Fish in a Tree
- Flora and Ulysses
- Flygirl by Sherri Smith
- Focused
- Forget Me Not
- The Fourteenth Goldfish
- Framed!
- Frankie Sparks - Series
- Free Thaddeus!
- From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler >
- Front Desk
- Full Cicada Moon
- The Garden of My Imaan
- Garvey's Choice
- Geek Girl - Series
- The Genius Files >
- Ghost
- A Gift of Magic
- The Girl in the Well is Me
- Girl, Stolen
- The Girl Who Could Fly
- The Girl Who Drank the Moon
- The Girl Who Threw Butterflies
- The Giver
- Go Big or Go Home
- Gold Medal Summer
- Golden Girl
- The Goldfish Boy
- Good Dog
- A Good Kind of Trouble
- The Goose Girl
- Gracefully Grayson
- Grandmaster
- The Graveyard Book
- Greetings from Witness Protection
- Hachiko Waits
- The Handbook for Dragon Slayers
- A Handful of Stars
- Half a World Away
- Hamster Princess - Series
- Harry Potter - Series
- Hatchet
- Her Own Two Feet
- Hero
- The Heroes of Olympus Series
- Hey, Kiddo
- The Higher Power of Lucky
- Holes >
- Home of the Brave
- The Homework Machine
- The Homework Strike
- The Honest Truth
- Hope Was Here
- The House That Lou Built
- How to Ditch Your Fairy
- How to Steal a Dog
- How to Train Your Dragon Series
- The Hundred Dresses
- The Hunger Games Series
- I Am a Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to Be Your Class President
- I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
- I Have a Bad Feeling About This
- I Am Number Four
- I Heart Band
- I Kill the Mockingbird
- I Survived . . . Series
- I Will Always Write Back
- Ida B
- If I Were You
- If a Tree Falls at Lunch Period
- In the Shadow of the Sun
- Incommunicado
- Inside Out and Back Again
- Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus
- The Invention of Hugo Cabret
- Invisible World
- It's Raining Cupcakes
- James and the Giant Peach
- Jefferson's Sons
- Karma Khullar's Mustache
- Keeping Corner
- The Kidney Hypothetical
- The Kite Fighters >
- Knock Out
- Lasagna Means I Love You
- The Last Book in the Universe
- The Last Shot: Mystery at the Final Four
- Left Out
- Legend
- The Lemonade War
- Liberty Porter, First Daughter
- Lies We Tell Ourselves
- Lights, Camera, Disaster
- Lily and Dunkin
- The Limit
- The Lions of Little Rock
- Listen, Slowly
- Listening for Lions
- Little House - Series
- Little Miss Evil
- A Little Princess
- Locomotion >
- The Long Ride
- A Long Walk to Water
- Long Way Down
- Losers Take All
- The Lost Girl
- Lost in the Sun
- Love That Dog
- Lunch Money
- The Magician's Elephant
- Maniac Magee
- Mascot
- Masterpiece >
- A Match Made in Mehendi
- Matched Trilogy
- Maus
- Maybe a Fox
- Maybe He Just Likes You
- The Maze Runner
- Me and Marvin Gardens
- Medusa Jones
- A Million Shades of Gray
- Minnie McClary Speaks Her Mind
- The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane
- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl
- Mockingbird
- Morning Girl
- Morning Star
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH >
- My Basmati Bat Mitzvah
- My Life in Pink and Green
- My Life with the Liars
- The Mysterious Benedict Society
- Nathan Hale's Hazardous Tales
- Neil Flambe
- The Neptune Project
- Nerd Camp
- NERDS
- New Kid
- The Next Great Paulie Fink
- The Night Diary
- A Night Divided
- Ninth Ward
- No Summit Out of Sight
- No Talking
- Not If I Can Help It
- Notes from an Accidental Band Geek
- Nothing But the Truth
- Number the Stars >
- OCDaniel
- Olive's Ocean
- On My Honor >
- On the Wings of Heroes
- The One and Only Ivan
- One Came Home
- One Crazy Summer
- One Half from the East
- One Jar of Magic
- One of the Survivors
- One of Us is Lying
- One Small Step
- One True Way
- Orbiting Jupiter
- The Other Half of My Heart
- The Other Side of Truth
- Out of My Mind
- Out of the Dust
- Outrun the Moon
- Paint the Wind >
- The Paper Cowboy
- Paperboy
- Peak
- Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- The Phantom Tollbooth
- Piecing Me Together
- Pippi Longstocking
- Planet Earth is Blue
- The Player King
- The Porcupine of Truth
- Posted
- The President's Daughter (series)
- Princess Academy
- The Princess in Black
- The Pros of Cons
- The Puttermans Are in the House
- The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
- Rachel Spinelli Punched Me in the Face
- Rancho Rosetta Series
- Real Friends
- Rebel McKenzie
- The Red Pencil
- Red Thread Sisters
- Red, White, and Whole
- Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen
- The Report Card
- Rescued
- Restart
- Revolution is Not a Dinner Party
- River Secrets
- Roll With It
- Roller Girl
- Romeo Blue
- Roses and Radicals
- Ruby on the Outside
- Rules
- Rules for Stealing Stars
- The Running Dream
- Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes
- Sahara Special
- Salt and Sugar
- Salt to the Sea
- Same Sun Here
- Samurai Rising
- Sarah, Plain and Tall
- Sarai and The Meaning of Awesome
- Saraswati's Way
- Sassy - series
- Save Me a Seat
- School of Fear
- The School for Good and Evil
- Schooled
- The Schwa Was Here
- A Season of Daring Greatly
- The Secret Diary of Lydia Bennet
- Secret Keeper
- The Secret School
- The Seventh Wish
- Shakespeare's Secret
- Shooting Kabul
- Sideways Stories from Wayside School
- The Sign of the Beaver
- Simon Sort of Says
- Sing Down the Moon
- A Single Shard >
- The Sisters Grimm
- Six Impossible Things
- Slider
- Sliding Into Home
- Smile
- The Smile
- A Snicker of Magic
- Soar
- Some Places More Than Others
- Something Rotten: A Fresh Look at Roadkill
- Song for a Whale
- Space Case
- Sparrow
- Speak
- Speechless
- Spin the Golden Light Bulb
- Stargazing
- Stargirl >
- Star Wars: Jedi Academy
- Stef Soto, Taco Queen
- Stink and the Incredible, Super Galactic Jawbreaker
- Stone Fox
- Story Thieves
- The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
- Stuck on Earth
- The Summer I Saved the World in 65 Days
- Surviving the Applewhites
- Survival Strategies of the Almost Brave
- The Swap
- The Sweetest Sound
- The Tail of Emily Windsnap >
- Take Me to the River
- The Tale of Despereaux
- A Tangle of Knots
- The Tapper Twins - series
- Tasting the Sky
- That Thing About Bollywood
- TBH This is So Awkward
- The Thief
- The Thing About Jellyfish
- Things Not Seen
- 33 Minutes
- Thirst
- This Journal Belongs to Ratchet
- This Side of Home
- Threads
- The Tiger Rising >
- A Time to Dance
- The Total Tragedy of a Girl Named Hamlet
- The Trials of Apollo (series)
- The True Meaning of Smekday
- Tumbling
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