What Is My Reading Identity? - AWS
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What Is My Reading Identity? Your Early Reading Life What is your earliest memory of reading?
How was reading a part of your childhood?
What are three books that stand out to you from your childhood reading life and why?
Did you have any reading role models in your childhood?
What were pleasurable experiences you had with reading in school?
What are experiences that you did not like with reading in school?
How have your earliest reading experiences shaped how you teach reading now?
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Your Adult Reading Life How much time do you spend reading for pleasure?
How do you select a book to read?
What are your favorite genres or authors?
Do you read children’s books? Why or why not?
Do you set reading goals?
What are your book gaps?
Which five words would you use to describe your own reading life?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
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Your Reading Life in Your Classroom Do your students know your reading habits?
What is the last book you book talked in school?
How do you incorporate book talks currently?
Which colleagues do you talk books with?
What does your classroom library say about you?
How do students have choice in what they read in your classroom?
How do students have choice in what they do with their reading in your classroom?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
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The Changes You Want to Pursue Looking at your own reading life, what is the one thing you want to change right now?
How will you accomplish this?
Looking at your classroom reading philosophy, what is the one thing you want to change right now for your students?
How will you accomplish this?
Looking at your classroom set up, what is the one thing you want to change right now for your students?
How will you accomplish this?
What is one long-term change you want to work toward? How will you get there?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
What Is My Reading Identity? Your Early Reading Life What is your earliest memory of reading?
How was reading a part of your childhood?
What are three books that stand out to you from your childhood reading life and why?
Did you have any reading role models in your childhood?
What were pleasurable experiences you had with reading in school?
What are experiences that you did not like with reading in school?
How have your earliest reading experiences shaped how you teach reading now?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
Appendix 149
Your Adult Reading Life How much time do you spend reading for pleasure?
How do you select a book to read?
What are your favorite genres or authors?
Do you read children’s books? Why or why not?
Do you set reading goals?
What are your book gaps?
Which five words would you use to describe your own reading life?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
150 Appendix
Your Reading Life in Your Classroom Do your students know your reading habits?
What is the last book you book talked in school?
How do you incorporate book talks currently?
Which colleagues do you talk books with?
What does your classroom library say about you?
How do students have choice in what they read in your classroom?
How do students have choice in what they do with their reading in your classroom?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
Appendix 151
The Changes You Want to Pursue Looking at your own reading life, what is the one thing you want to change right now?
How will you accomplish this?
Looking at your classroom reading philosophy, what is the one thing you want to change right now for your students?
How will you accomplish this?
Looking at your classroom set up, what is the one thing you want to change right now for your students?
How will you accomplish this?
What is one long-term change you want to work toward? How will you get there?
© 2017, Passionate Readers, Pernille Ripp, Routledge
