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Choose Your Own Adventure!
Choose Your Own Adventure!
Creating a school-wide culture of literacy continues to be a priority for the faculty, staff, and administration at Pierce Middle School. Summer is the perfect time to find books and texts to read for pleasure. The resources and lists below are meant to be a starting point to help you select books that match your interests and include a variety of titles across many genres, levels, lengths, and platforms.
The goal of this summer’s reading assignment is to engage all students in meaningful literacy experiences while providing student choice. In service of this goal, all students entering grades 6, 7, and 8 are asked to do the following:
Read!
Read!
Read 3 texts and complete an assignment related to one of one
Students can choose from books, audiobooks or podcasts.
Select!
Select!
Select one of the texts you read (at minimum) and complete this form.
Choose one way to show your understanding/thinking about what you have read.
Writing Prompts - answer five of these prompts!
Infographic - click here to see how you can create an infographic about your reading
Video Review: create a video review of your reading! You can use padlet, screencastify or google!
Podcast: Whether alone or with friends, creating a podcast about your reading can be fun! Audio record in Padlet, create an audio file, or in google slides!
Share!
Share!
Want to share your writing, infographic, podcast or book review with others? Add it to our Padlet! You can create your audio, screen share, video right on the app!
Please note: all submissions will be reviewed before posted to the padlet.
How can students choose books? Students can choose any books that are of interest to them! However, below are some resources to find new books by genre:
Scaffolded Book Recommendations (Thank you, Mrs. Prodanas!)
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