Thing 44: Social Reading




This topic is great! So far I have signed up for a NYC public library card, a GoodReads school account with focus on YA fiction and a GoodReads personal account to get some recommendations for my own summer reading. I also used some of the YA lists to help with book selection. I loved the “Groups” page. I liked how teachers used it to create private reading groups for book reviews and would love to hook up with one of the groups from another country so the kids could interact. I also found the “What’s the Name of that Book?” feature handy.

Another feature I passed on to our ENL, Reading and Special Education teachers is the ICDL website. It may seem like this would be too young for high school level, but many of the immigrant and refugee students who either never had formal schooling in their home country or are in Special Education programs would love using these e-books. Similarly, I sent the link to Storybird out to our English and Special Education teachers. I know they would love both Lark and the Challenges. Because of the multiple levels and topics, almost everyone in the building can use CommonLit.

I really enjoyed playing with these.

Here is my masterpiece 😂:


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  1. pollyMay 17, 2018 at 8:54 PM

    Oh, what a sweet image you created with Storybird. You found some great resources to share from this lesson! Terrific. And GoodReads is such a great resource. Too many books, I need to retire! :)

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