I’m joining Jen & Kellee (and many other bloggers) in discussing what we are reading this week. Join us! Go to their site and link up your own blog.
I didn’t
get a chance to post last Monday because I was hosting a book tour. So here are
the books I’ve read in the past two weeks:
My
favorites would have to be The Knife of Never Letting Go and Squish
#3: The Power of the Parasite. Two very different books but wonderful in
their own way.
On a side
note, we had #titletalk last night and the topic was graphic novels. I took
screen shots of some tweets from Colby Sharp and John Schu:
Truly, I
could not agree with their statements more. I just wanted to put that out there
for all parents and teachers that are concerned about their children/ students
reading graphic novels. They are reading! And graphic novels are amazing. The
amount of work you have to do to infer between panels is unreal. The pictures
help the students visualize but they do have to read the words as well. My
heart breaks when kids return graphic novels to me and say their parents said
they couldn’t read “comics.” And as
teachers if we say we value choice in our reading programs, you cannot take
away graphic novels from your students.
Beyond
that my husband is an excellent example of what I see in my students. He was an
excellent student in school, graduated from the College of Engineering at the U
of I. He reads almost daily and a steady stream of comic books. The occasional
book slips in but he devours comic books. He was the first person to recommend
Bone by Jeff Smith to me, and that is where my purchasing of graphic novels
began. Please give these books a chance. Your students will amaze you!
If you
need a resource for teaching graphic novels, Terry Thompson’s Adventures in
Graphica is wonderful. I plan on reading it again this summer.
Finally,
I am beginning my summer #bookaday. My school got out for the summer May 25th
and we start back up August 20th. By my count that is 86 days or 86
books. (My actual goal is 100). Here we go!
