I am currently reading Donalyn Miller's book, Reading in the Wild as part of this summer's #cyberPD book study co-hosted over at the Literacy Zone blog . The idea is to read two chapters at a time and write a blog post that is then linked back to one of the participating blogs for this book study. Source: http://donalynmiller.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/reading-in-the-wild.jpg?w=226&h=300 Source: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/519lHx-UOzL.jpg Reading in the Wild is a follow-up to Donalyn's first book, The Book Whisperer , which promoted "free voluntary reading" in the classroom as a way to develop a love of reading in students. In this second book, Donalyn takes these ideas a step further by describing the kind of attitudes and behaviours commonly exhibited by "wild readers", or readers who love to read so much they always have a book in their hand, no matter where they go. The attitudes and behaviours of wild readers, as i...
This blog is a place to ruminate on the problems of teaching. If I am thinking thoughtfully, my posts will hopefully raise more questions than answers. By problematizing teaching we reflect on those questions that are constantly behind, in front, and at center of everything we do in the classroom. Feel free to comment. I'd love to hear what other teachers are thinking about on these and other issues. Cheers! Elisa