“Don’t read in the dark!” (Just yesterday in a hotel room while traveling!)
It’s my Kindle on my iPad. It’s lit.
“When did you start reading?”
Have I ever NOT been reading?
I remember reading BEFORE I went to school for kindergarten.
And according to a first grader, “Was that before Columbus discovered America?”
I remember lying in front of a south window trying to sneak in a few more minutes of twilight reading hours. In later years I remember having a flashlight and a book under my pillow in the camper so I could read if I wasn’t sleeping. And now, now I read from my iPad. Sometimes I read just a page or two. Sometimes I flip back to an old boring friend and read just a page or two. And sometimes I read until the book ends!
My mantra:
I checked out and read all the Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys books available from our public library in the 1960s and I credit those series for making me a serial reader – every book published by the author. (Note: I love the new versions now available!)
Kylene Beers and Donalyn Miller (#TCRWP Reading Institute) have told us that series readers will be life-long readers. Encourage students to embark on the exploration of a series OR TWO during the summer and they will be on the way to slowing or even stopping the “summer slide”!
Which books?I’m not in favor of “mandated lists” because I believe that student choice builds a love of reading. Here’s some advice . . .
These eight bullets can help you, the teacher, increase your own voraciousness as well as that of your students!
Of course, building in a bit of humor as in “How would I rewrite the titles to fit a different concept?” can produce a graphic like “Hungry for Books”!
Thank you, Betsy, Beth, Deb, Kathleen, Lanny, Lisa, Melanie, and Stacey for this weekly forum. Check out the writers, readers and teachers here. 
And what does this look like in a high school reading workshop???? How would you know if you have voracious readers? Fabulous ideas from students incorporated into this rubric.
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