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Maybe it’s because January is typically a time to get organized or perhaps it’s a carry over from all of the end-of-the-year “best of” lists, but I have found myself making more lists than usual lately. This is actually saying something, as Iam, by nature, a list maker. There are grocery lists, errand lists, packing lists, to-do lists, books to read list and the list goes on and on.
Of all the lists I’ve made recently, my favorite has been“Books I Want to Read Again”. Withthe exception of To Kill a Mockingbird that I read every year or two, Irarely reread books. There arejust too many new ones to be read for that. But recently I found myself in the local bookstore to purchasea book for a child’s birthday. Before I knew it, I was on the floor with a pile of books around mewhile I joyously reread Where the Wild Things Are and one of the “BoxcarChildren” books I had enjoyed reading to my son many years ago. I stopped by the teen section and foundbooks that I remembered enjoying but that’s about all I could remember aboutthem.Sharing my list with you would just add to the lists you may already have rolling in your head so instead, I’ll urge you to ask your students to make a list about books. Give them the choice of exactly what the list will be about…books I want to read again, books I remember from when I was young, books I was required to read for school that I didn’t like, books that should be made into movies,books with great illustrations…the list of possibilities is endless. The important thing is that your students will be thinking and writing about books that have significance to them. In order to do this, they may even have to visit the library or pull a book of the shelf at home. Consider posting the list or having students share some part of their list with their classmates. The conversations could be interesting. Now on to the next thing on my to-do list.
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