After the joyful experience of my fist read-aloud with my 7th grade class, and the awesome request by a student to “read more stories”, I decided that I should let my students choose our next book.
I created two short (cheesy and amateur) book trailers, which I am sharing here with permissions from the authors:
“Superhamburgers” by Mike Peto
“La France en danger” by Mira Canion
After watching the book trailer, I let the students read the first two pages of each book on their own. This allowed them to assess the difficulty of each text.
Finally, using a simple google form, students took a vote based on interest and difficulty.
“La France en danger” won and we are now reading it together as another read-aloud!
[The whole process took roughly 15-20 min.]
Vote results projected live for my students to see
What do you do to encourage student choice in reading for Novice learners?
I would love to hear your ideas.
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