Reading Around the Wheel

Today in reading workshop we discussed how good readers read LOTS of different types of books.  We all have our favorite types of book to read, and sometimes we get stuck reading just one type of book over and over, like comics, and stories, or informational texts.  Reading widely makes us stronger readers.   Reading different types of books helps us learn more about ourselves and the world.  Good readers have a variety of reading in their reading diet; they read poetry, biography, nonfiction, mysteries, comics, etc.

 As a class we talked about some of the different types of books we have read this year.  We used the genre wheel to keep track of our reading.  After we discussed our reading diet as a class each student completed a reading wheel based on the books they have read during "read to self" this school year.  We noticed many students have read a lot of fiction books, and many of us need to read more informational text books, poetry, sports, and fantasy books.  We are going to continue to use the wheel to keep track of our reading and see what genre of books we read a lot of and what types of books we might want to try more of.