Recipe for Choosing A Book

My third graders and I had fun this week creating a Recipe for Choosing a Book. We created the recipe and then I modeled making the recipe. Our goal was to select next book we will read together in class! Here's a summary of the key points in our Recipes;

Step One: Go to a "library." We decided there are many different types of libraries; your own library, classroom library, school library and public libraries. The students listed many of the Boston Public Branch Libraries in their neighborhoods - here's a link for your local library. All of our students have library cards that are good for the BPL.

Step Two: Once you are in the library go to the area that has books for kids and choose a shelf and start reading the titles. DO NOT choose a book by it's cover. MAKE SURE you can read the title and that is sounds interesting to you. The title makes you curious to find out more.

Step Three: Read some of the book. That's right! You can read the back cover or the inside front cover or even part or most of the first chapter. This will give you a good idea if this is a book that you will read cover to cover!

The two books we chose to read  are...