45. Classroom Community Building Starts with a Strong Reading Culture

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Want 5 simple ways you can support a strong reading culture in upper elementary, and surprisingly have some strong classroom community building as a bonus?! </span></p> <ol> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Allow for reading choice</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Make time for book talks & reading life chats</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Use reading journals instead of traditional reading logs</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Incorporate reading conferences to individualize reading progress</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Share novels primarily for the love of reading!</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Resources mentioned in this episode:</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reading Journal "Bookself" visual</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A More Powerful Reading Journal - Teacher Guide and Templates</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;"><a href= "https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/book-whisperer-donalyn-miller/1102488925?ean=9780470372272" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Book Whisperer</a> book by Donalyn Miller</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Your no-prep action item this week</strong> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is to share pieces of your own reading life with your students.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This can be a memory from your own elementary reading, a current or recent book you’ve loved or loathed and why, a time you ditched a book, the reason you chose a book, other things you’ve read that aren’t books, and more!</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Make it your goal this week to connect with one student’s reading journey each day, or with your whole class, by sharing a bit of your own reading journey that relates.</span></p> <p>Help me, help you! (And maybe get some coffee on me!) <a href= "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfFF_KSKoi_VMoQHqqQ6t-VA43f9akaJdKmQ7ITaglIx2H-oQ/viewform?usp=sf_link" target="