Theses 9th graders are amazing! These are my friend Brett’s students.
Each year, my ninth-grade students spend part of their first day of class creating a list of books that have shaped them as readers. I want them to explore their “reading lives” a bit, so I ask them to recall a picture book they loved, a book they never finished, a book a teacher read aloud to them . . . the list goes on and on, and we try to quickly gather the good, the bad, and the ugly from the reading experiences of their first fifteen years.
Then we choose a few of these books to develop into scenes in which we visualize what it looked like as they read, where they read, and how it felt. We follow this with some reflection on how the book shaped them as a reader and what they learned. It is a wonderful opportunity to examine how to balance showing and…
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Meg Sorick, Author/Artist 
Thanks for sharing!
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Fantastic! I’d love to do this with a group.
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Glad you enjoyed! I think this is a group of high school teachers. Brett V teaches 9th grade English. I’m not sure how you form a group on WP but I belong to Insecure Writers Support Group on FB, come join there! It’s a forum for asking questions, venting frustrations and sharing successes!
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Hey! Thank you! I’ve been feeling like I need a community of writers so that sounds perfect!
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Awesome! I’ll see you over there!
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