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Reading in pairs

January 4th, 2011

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Part of what I enjoy about reading great books are the discussions that I have with other readers.

Ms. Hofmann is doing a pretty cool experiment with AR reading. She paired up students based on an interest survey and I pulled all of my books that I have two copies of. Tomorrow I’ll booktalk a few and we’ll let students choose from there. The goal is to get good books into the hands of students and to have a little bit more interactivity with their reading.

The other fun bit is that for the library to have two copies of the book, it has to be a good book. I’m excited to see how it turns out. If you look at the above photo, that’s just a small sampling of the awesomeness.

This Week’s Griggs Greats – for 7th grade

December 3rd, 2007

With all of the podcasting and iMovie DVD burning, it was nice to do a booktalk today.

I was stressed a little, since reading time was a little crunched. (But the podcasts were awesome! I was walking around with the school’s iMac showing different people – “Now that’s a podcast!”)

So, for all of the crunched librarians out there, here is a list of Griggs Greats guaranteed to add a couple more patrons to your hold list. (At least that’s what happened today.)

  1. The Contender by Robert Lipsyte
  2. Transall Saga by Gary Paulsen
  3. All-American Girl by Meg Cabot
  4. Romiette and Julio by Sharon Draper
  5. Atherton by Patrick Carman
  6. Star Wars: Shadow Academy by Kevin J. Anderson
  7. Cover-Up by John Feinstein
  8. Lion Boy by Zizou Corder
  9. The Last Book in the Universe by Rodman Philbrick (read it before it’s banned)
  10. Young Man and the Sea by Rodman Philbrick