Blog Post #4 - Routman (2003), Ch. 3: Share Your Reading Life - Kayla Manning

I have never enjoyed reading and still do not read for pleasure very often but after reading this chapter I am starting to evaluate my reading life. I have never thought about the benefits of sharing your personal reading life with your students to help encourage them to read. I do not speak negatively about reading but I do not talk about it at all. I want to try to read for pleasure and then share it with my students. I know my students are too young to do a book report or anything like that but we do share our books out loud to each other. I want to do more of this in my classroom. I really like what Routman says about sharing your reading life.