40 book challenge

When I read The Book Whisperer last year, it inspired me to start a 40 book challenge in my own classroom. If you haven't read this book yet, go to amazon.com and buy it now. Two years later I'm still deeming it the best book I've read on encouraging your students to love reading! After reading the book myself, I worked with some colleagues to determine how we could use the challenge to inspire our students to read more books than they'd ever read before. The first thing I did was create a…

Introduce the 40 book challenge to your students in a way that will get them excited about reading. Perfect for upper elementary and middle school.

Last summer, I picked up a book I've been wanting to read for quite some time, The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller. It's been on my to-read list for a couple of years and since I moved to a new school, I figured it was the perfect time to get some new inspiration. Well, this book blew me away. You see, I love reading, and it is always my goal to help my students to love reading as well. I achieve this with engaging read-alouds, but I admit that I hadn't put much thought into independent…

I like to be able to track my kid's reading, and keep records to go into their school portfolios of what we've read. I also like to reward good reading habits. I've found that in

One of my favorite things to do is encourage my readers to read more than they've ever read before! So I incorporate a book challenge into our reader's workshop. This year we started the challenge on the first day of school and we talk about it every day. I keep track of the books I read on our classroom door. And my readers keep track of the books they complete in their Reading Workshop Binder and on our Book Challenge Bulletin Board. How cool is my door?? I love seeing the books I read…

One of the most formative books I’ve ever read comes from Donalyn Miller and is called, The Book Whisperer. I can’t get enough. I’ve re-read it, highlighted it, and several years ago, I even had her SIGN it. She is a gifted reading teacher and coach and is the reason we do the 40 Book ... Read More about 40 Book Challenge

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Are up up to the challenge? This year we are bringing back the 40 book challenging third through fifth grade students! (K-2 we are going...

Someone asked me what I would do with a million dollars once. The first thing I said was "I'd buy more books for my classroom library." I know what you're thinking, "yea right," but it really...

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