Miller provides many tips for teachers and parents and includes a useful list of ultimate reading suggestions picked by her students. Her students regularly read more than 40 books in a school year and leave her classroom with an appreciation and love of books and reading. Her approach is simple yet provocative: affirm the reader in every student, allow students to choose their own books, carve out extra reading time, model authentic reading behaviors, discard timeworn reading assignments such as book reports and comprehension worksheets, and develop a classroom library filled with high-interest books. Miller, a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher and blogger, has enabled students of many different backgrounds to enjoy reading and to be good at it her students regularly score high on the Texas standardized tests. The book includes a dynamite list of recommended “kid lit” that helps parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.” Her love of books and teaching is both infectious and inspiring. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives them time to read books they pick out themselves. Miller’s unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. No matter how far behind Miller’s students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. “Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn’t turn into a reader.
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