Nikki Gamble
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Re:books and reading ages - help! - 2008/05/16 00:51
Well, the point is really about knowing the readers in your class.... and them knowing that you are interested enough in their reading interests when it comes to making book selection. Which I imagine is how it is in your class, Luke.
Teachers find different ways of managing this. With the guided groups that I've been working with, I always give a guided choice (usually and either or but there's still an element of choice. And learning that when you are reading in a group you sometimes you have to go with a book that isn't your personal preference is, I think, important too. Just recently this was the case with a group that I was working with 5 wanted 1 book and 1 wanted another. We talked about being open-minded that sometimes this was a good way of discovering something new, tht books can surprise us, that reviewers have to read books that are not necessarily books they would choose for themselves.
I always used to do the same for class novels - though my working context means that I only get to read short stories and not entire noves to classes these days.
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