Your Journey to a Fuller Reading Life
- Read to Broaden Your Worldview
- Read to Connect with Others
- The Value of Reading for Pleasure: Gary D. Schmidt
- When did you last read a book?
- Why Write about Reading?
Read to Broaden Your Worldview
We all have a lens through which we view the events that happen to us and around us. That lens is largely built by how we are raised and what media we consume. I teach a course called Senior World Literature, and in the first year that I taught it, I discovered that my high…
Read to Connect with Others
A fun benefit of being a reader is that you get to connect with other people: book clubs, Goodreads, your social media platforms, professional development, and just in daily conversations. Yes, conversations. Can we talk about that idea? I’ve observed in many of my students a lack of ability to have a conversation. Albeit some…
The Value of Reading for Pleasure: Gary D. Schmidt
Read this excerpt from an interview with young adult author Gary D. Schmidt and then try to tell me that I waste time having kids read books in my High School English classroom. Getting GOOD books (not necessarily difficult books) in front of kids helps them become confident readers! If you have a middle school…
When did you last read a book?
“TWO HOURS AGO.” If that is your answer, then I hope that you will find this blog enjoyable–a place to read about one of your favorite pastimes! I will write book reviews and posts about themes in literature, give book talks and provide book lists, and talk about authors and all sorts of book-related experiences.…
Why Write about Reading?
When I was around sixteen, a senior boy whom I had been secretly enamored with nearly my entire life bragged to his friends from the back of the bus, “I haven’t read a single book throughout high school.” Laughter ensued, and everyone probably reflected that if a straight-A student didn’t have to read the books…
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