What Do I Want to Read?!?

Subject Area(s):

• K-12: Language Arts

Grade Level(s):

• 7th-8th Grade

Description:

Over 100,000 books are published each year, how do you figure out what to read? This lesson will motivate students to learn how to select books to create a summer reading list. The students will look at various Web sites devoted to books, authors and reviews, and use these tools to select at least five books that interest them.

Goals & Objectives:

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Materials:

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Procedures:

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Assessment:

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Supporting Files:

• summerreadinglesson.doc
  Summer reading lesson plan
• summerreadinghandout.doc
  Summer reading handout, which students can use to keep track of their books
• summerreadingwebsites.doc
  Annotated list of Web sites

Standards:

National Information Literacy Standards (K-12)

Accesses information efficiently and effectively.

• Identifies a variety of potential sources of information.
• Develops and uses successful strategies for locating information.

Evaluates information critically and competently.

• Selects information appropriate to the problem or question at hand.

Pursues information related to personal interests.

• Designs, develops, and evaluates information products and solutions related to personal interests.

Appreciates literature and other creative expressions of information.

• Is a competent and self-motivated reader.