Check out what students are reading over Thanksgiving break
My experience says that independent reading programs don’t work well unless students approach what researchers call “voluminous reading.” There’s simply not eno...
Tag: book requests
Kindle Classroom Project: Any book, anytime
My good friend Barbara, who is also a sustaining donor of the Kindle Classroom Project, made a great point tonight. It went something like this: The Kindles ar...
What happens when a book request comes in
Thanksgiving is coming, which means the 600+ students (update: now 2,000!) in the Kindle Classroom Project are finding themselves off of school — and ready to ...
You may request one book at a time
The reading excitement is so intense that I’m receiving multiple new book requests every day. Sometimes, these multiple requests come from the same stude...
The Kindle Library reaches 450 titles
One powerful part of the Kindle Classroom Project is that it breaks down barriers to reading. If a student wants to read a book, he or she can request it, and ...