Well, we've had several lessons on easy/just right/challenging. I think the single most powerful thing I've done is to bring in my own personal reading and share with them how I have reading that is in each category. I share my purpose for reading each piece as well. I've shared shoes in three sizes and talk about how one shoe is too big, and that is like a challenge book...it doesn't quite fit now, but it will. You can put it on and try it out, but it doesn't help you as a reader in the end. I really try to stress that it's ok to have a challenge book, but it's about how much time you're spending on it. (I try really hard to NOT take books away anymore...I just keep trying to steer them closer to what is just right for them.) So the too small shoe used to fit just right, but I'm past it. I can still put it on, but it is too tight. In the book world, I can read it still, it's probably an "old love", but I've grown out of it. It's like a challenge book, I can read it sometimes, but not all the time.
I could keep going, but I'm sure you get the gist...so after all these lessons their job is to decide if the books they're reading are jr/e/ch for them. AND code that on a sticky on the book, AND tell WHY it's e/jr/ch for them. Hope this helps. It's a HUGE task...when I get frustrated, I try to think of myself at my favorite book store trying to find a "just right" book for myself. janelle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ed Asselin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mosaic: A Reading Comprehension Strategies Email Group" <mosaic@literacyworkshop.org> Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2007 9:22 PM Subject: [MOSAIC] choosing just right books > What has been your most successful lesson or strategy to get students to > choose "just right" books? > Sharon/WI > _______________________________________________ Mosaic mailing list Mosaic@literacyworkshop.org To unsubscribe or modify your membership please go to http://literacyworkshop.org/mailman/options/mosaic_literacyworkshop.org. Search the MOSAIC archives at http://snipurl.com/MosaicArchive.
