Wild Reading

    

     I just finished reading Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer's Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits by Donalyn Miller, and loved it. I picked it up at the library hoping it will help me improve my students reading habits. I was so inspired by a lot of what she wrote that I have big plans for next year. Not only did it make me want to be a better reading teacher but also a better reader myself.

    I plan on implementing her ideas as much as I can next year. I love her forms at the end of the book and will probably use a lot of them. Her ideas about creating a Graffiti wall for favorite lines from a book was inspiring, I intend on creating one in my classroom next year. I loved her idea of book commercials too. I think I will have the students do those as well, and the best commercial gets an honorable mention on the classroom website. I hope next year to encourage my students to be wild readers too.