Reading Bingo! is back for the spring semester! I made a few changes to the general procedures, the reviews my students write, and, of course, the board is different than the Fall 2015 one. Here is the board for Spring 2016! The changes I made focus on accountability with my students and their reading. For example, when deadlines loomed, I noticed my students were "reading" all sorts of books that they had not been reporting in weekly Reading Roll Calls. I also noticed that students were analyzing their books with the respective course's essential questions in a broad and superficial way. Check out the breakdown of the changes by comparing last semester's expectations to this semester's. Reading Roll Call
This exercise has created a positive reading community. I love it when I hear students say, "That book was great!" or "I couldn't get into that one!" because it gets the conversation started about books and reading. Essential Question AnalysisThe essential question or through line for each class is the same, but I am upping the ante for about half of my students. As was the purpose in the fall, students are practicing the skills associated with finding, analyzing, and connecting textual evidence to larger questions and claims.
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