This week is “Teen Read Week,” which is a week encouraging teens to read something out of this world (this year’s theme). YALSA sponsors this week. Another fun blog, Readergirlz, has their own set of ideas for Teen Read Week, which you can see in their poster that I included here.
I decided to make this part of my Wacky Wednesday post today because I wanted to include some ideas for teachers/home school parents who are doing independent reading or reading workshop with teens. Yes, teens read, and some of them read YA books; others read adult books. In my opinion, it is important for English teachers and home school parents to teach the classics and other important literature to an entire class. But it is EVEN MORE important to instill a love of reading into teens. And I believe we do that with allowing them to read independently books that peak their interests. If you have to give a grade or show how they mastered skills or their improvement over a semester, you can do that with some of my ideas below.
Here are some popular teen books:
Ideas for teens who are involved in reading workshop or independent reading:
1. Teens should have a reading response journal. While they are reading, they can write any questions they have, vocabulary, thoughts about what they are reading, favorite quotes, etc. Sort of like a diary for the book. It shouldn’t have to be in complete sentences, and it can be more creative. They could even include drawings.
2. Allow teens to start a class blog about the books they are reading. They can blog about chapters, characters, and the plot. When they finish books, they can write book reviews on their blogs. A super-easy website to use to start a blog is: Blogger
3. Pretend they are a character from the book and write: a diary entry about a day in the life of that character, a letter from that character to another character in the book or a real person, or a sequel or prequel to the book.
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