[LIT] Reading Question Response

[Connie Fletcher]

>
> Lucinda asked:


> What do you do to encourage reading for middle school students at home and
> in class? Do you have reading logs for your students or how do you
> encourage
> reading & responding?
>

Like TLP, I have embraced Atwell's Reading Zone, and I have to say that my
students are reading like crazy!  *Twilight*, etc is being read hungrily
(pun intended), as is *Runner* by Carl Deuker.  I teach 7th and 8th and
the students do several things in conjunction with their reading:

   - Keep a reading record
   - Log their thoughts about story elements and literary devices
   - Pair/shares
   - Book Reviews--no book reports
   - Wall of Reading--As the students complete books they fill out a slip
   that gets taped up on the wall.  When the wall gets full we have a Book
   Pary, with food and Book Talks.

Connie Fletcher
Curlew WA