I will start up A Book a Day tomorrow, Wednesday, June 27th, and continue through August 27th. One of my primary study topics this summer is how to motivate all students to read, due to discussion we have been having in my district about reading incentives and motivation. I will be doing a lot of professional reading in this area, but I know that having more books to personally recommend to students is the key to getting them excited about reading.
I am going to read a wide variety of books this summer, with a special focus on chapter books for 2nd, 3rd and 4th graders. I tend to give those a quick skim when they come in, unless they have been recommended by a student or I see they are popular. I spend more reading minutes on longer books for older readers, but I want to have more middle grade fiction at my disposal when school starts again in August.
To start, I'm reading a couple of the Field Trip Mysteries series, which are popular with 3rd grade but also with struggling 5th grade readers studying the mystery genre. Let's see what the fuss is about!
