Building Our Reading Lives: Sharing What We Are Reading

Dear Readers, 

There are a few ways that our classroom community shares what we read throughout the school year.

Graffiti Walls

A couple of years ago I hung up a piece of chart paper in the book corner. We kept track of anything we read including independent reading books, whole class novels, articles, picture books, etc. As we filled it, we started a new one.

Our Reading Lives Chart

Another format we used was to organize the graffiti wall idea and create a chart of what we read.

What Are You Reading.....

Beth Houf (@BethHouf) gave me a fantastic idea! Post "What ______ is reading......." outside the classroom door. Her example was of staff members, but I thought it would be fun to have students do it too!

Class W.I.G. (Wildly Important Goal)

As a Leader in Me and Lighthouse School, we incorporate the Habits into our school community, including creating personal, classroom and schoolwide goals. We decided we were going to challenge ourselves to read a certain number of books, as a class, each quarter. It was wonderful to not only keep track of our reading lives, but to encourage others to read so we could meet our goal. 

Happy Reading!

Warmly,

Teresa