Are You in a Reading Rut? This Young Reader Encourages Me to Switch it Up! #SOL20 #Bookaday #Booklove
So, how can I be helpful? What are you working on as a reader?
I’m in a rut.
Say more about that.
I’m not excited about reading. I haven’t been reading much lately. I sit in front of the book, but I’m not reading.
Do you have any ideas about what is happening for you as a reader?
LONG PAUSE
I think I need to think about my piano teacher. I need to switch it up and get back into it.
I love how you are making connections between music and reading. Do you have a plan for switching it up?
My piano teacher suggested I start playing and listening to something totally different for the next month and see how that works. Maybe I’ll try the same thing with reading.
I can’t wait to hear about your plan. Thanks for sharing your reading life with me.
I walk away from that conference taking notes for myself. I realize this young reader truly just switched it up and wound up coaching me. I was on a roll this fall reading middle-grade texts and then I stopped reading. My picture book stack is growing and growing. It is feeling a bit overwhelming and I have been avoiding it. Time to switch it up and set a goal! I am going to do #bookaday for the month of December. I will read or reread one book a day and post it on social media. For me, going public with a goal always helps me stick to it. Looking forward to 31 days of picture books! Here is today #Bookaday title:
This is a great time of year to encourage your students to reflect, celebrate, and set goals. Why wait for the new year when you can hit the ground running on January 1? I’ve shared my story with lots of other readers and they decided to also try #bookaday in December. We are using Padlet, Jamboard, Flipgrid, and Seesaw for students to share their titles with one another. I am hoping this will help them gather titles they want to read over December break as well. Are you or your students in a reading rut? Join me for #bookday in December!
The #bookaday guidelines are simple:
You set your own start date and end date.
Read one book per day for each day. This is an average, so if you read three books in one day and none the next two, it still counts.
Any book qualifies including picture books, nonfiction, audiobooks, graphic novels, magazines, cookbooks, how-to guides, poetry, or fiction.
Keep a list of the books you read and share them each day. Be creative with how you decide to share your titles with your classmates.
If you want to learn more about #bookaday, read this blog post by the person who started it - Donalyn Miller.
