READING IN THE WILD

By Donalyn Miller and Susan Kelley. Learn how to instill reading habits that will last a lifetime with the advice from this natural follow-up to the principal author’s best-selling book, The Book Whisperer. Based in part on survey responses from both young and adult readers, this book is filled with solid advice and strategies on how to help students develop such key reading habits as dedicating time for reading, self-selecting reading material, sharing reading experiences with other readers, making reading plans, and developing preferences for genres, authors, and topics. Brimming with students’ voices and practical solutions to common problems, it also includes strategies, lesson plans, management tools, and extensive lists of recommended books. Based on grade six classrooms but widely applicable. Index. Bibliography. Suggested readings. Model surveys and student forms. Jossey-Bass. 273 pages. ©2014.