![]() ![]() But then after I finished it, I realized that what she’s done is given me her goals and enough details to get an idea of how she applied her goals in her classroom so that I wouldn’t be copying her. I wanted it to be very detailed and specific and that’s one complaint I had against the book, at first. ![]() This organization method has made it easier for teachers who, like me, want to replicate her method in our classrooms. Then she explains what actions she takes in her classroom that helps scaffold and teach students to become independent in that behavior. In her follow-up book, Reading in the Wild, she begins by outlining what behaviors readers exhibit outside of a school setting that help them succeed in reading. She’s made the book very helpful to teachers like me, who were left with questions like, how does this work? How do I track the students? What specific goals/behaviors do you have? Thankfully, Donalyn Miller followed up her work in The Book Whisperer with a book that breaks down the facets of what she does in her classroom and gives in-depth descriptions for her process, procedures, and activities in her classroom. Instead of teaching books to students, I want to teach the students through books. As I mentioned in my post about The Book Whisperer, I want to incorporate more reading in my classroom and make the assignments and assessments more authentic. With only a week to go until school starts, I’ve been frantically trying to prepare myself for the changes I want to make in my classroom. ![]()
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