Sharing Your Love for Reading

As Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis states in Strategies That Work, "one of the best reasons to read a picture book to a group of students is simply because you love it. Sharing our thoughts about why we love a book allows students to get to know us better and shows them how discerning we are about what we read."

Please list your top five books (and author) that you enjoy sharing with your students. Briefly explain why you would recommend them to others in this course.

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Biographical Author Sketch

Please share with classmates a short biographical sketch of one of your favorite authors and list their books that you enjoy.

Here is an example of one of my favorite authors:

Biography of Beverly Cleary

Beverly Cleary was born in McMinnville, Oregon. She lived on a farm in Yamhill until she was old enough to attend school. The town she lived in was very small and had no library. Her mother arranged with the State Library to have books sent to Yamhill and acted as librarian in a lodge room upstairs over a bank for Beverly. There Mrs. Cleary learned to love books. Her family moved to Portland, where Mrs. Cleary attended grammar school and high school, she soon found herself in the low reading circle, an experience that has given her sympathy for the problems of struggling readers. By the third grade she had conquered reading and spent much of her childhood either with books or on her way to and from the public library. Before long her school librarian was suggesting that she should write for boys and girls when she grew up. The idea appealed to her, and she decided that someday she would write the books she longed to read but was unable to find on the library shelves, funny stories about her neighborhood and the sort of children she knew. After graduation from junior college in Ontario, California and the University of California at Berkeley, Mrs. Cleary entered the School of Librarianship at the University of Washington, Seattle. There she specialized in library work with children. She was Children's Librarian in Yakima, Washington, until she married Clarence Cleary and moved to California. The Clearys are the parents of twins now grown. Mrs. Cleary's hobbies are travel and needlework.

Some of my favorite Beverly Cleary books include:

All Ramona books
Socks
Ribsy
Dear Mr. Henshaw
Strider (the sequel to Dear Mr. Henshaw)
The Mouse and the Motorcycle
Run Away Ralph
Ralph S. Mouse

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School Reading Philosophy

Please tell me about your school/district's reading philosophy. In your response, include what you feel are the strengths and areas that need improvement.This information will be beneficial to me so I can tailor this class to your individual needs.

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Welcome!!!

Welcome and Introductions
Please introduce yourself to the rest of the class by answering the following questions:



1) Your Name

2) School/City

3) Grade level and subject that you teach

4) Hobbies



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