Happy Saturday!
We finished our reading self portraits last week! They are glorious. Over the last month, students have been collecting information about their reading lives, analyzing the information and synthesizing the information into a map of their reading brains that tells the story of who they are as readers. They looked at favorite books, excerpts, characters, settings, authors, series, you name it--and then they thought about what all those favorites told them about themselves. We read to affirm what we believe. We read because it changes our minds and moves us forward. We read because it makes us want to change ourselves and the world. That is the work of these portraits--to put students in touch with those ideas, and to give them a chance to see for themselves the connection between their identities and their reading lives.
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