Teachers Are Readers Too!
Posted by Kim Murphy on 30 Jun 2009 | Posted in: Inspiration and Motivation, Life After School
From my experience, teachers generally have a love of reading. I know one of my favorite activities is to curl up with a good book, and there’s no better time to read than during the summer months! Magazines abound with recommended summer reading lists and best books for the beach. So I thought we would try our own little teacher-approved recommended reading list on The Mailbox® Blog. What are you planning to read during the summer months? What are some of your favorite books from past summers? Type me a quick note to name your all-time favorites! Then you can use the recommendations to jot down a list of potential books to read. Hey, all of these books are teacher-approved—just like our ideas in The Mailbox® magazine!
All the best,
Kimberly
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I love the Twilight series. I had never heard of it and after seeing the movie decided to read the books. I love them! I read all the books in just a short time and recommend them to anyone! I also love Mary Higgins Clark, Patricia Cornwell, and oh ya, any cowboy romance! As for professional books I am reading Skillstreaming the Elementary School Child New Stratgies and Perspectives for Teaching Prosocial Skills, Making Sense of Phonics The Hows and Whys, and the PRE-REFERRAL INTERVENTION MANUAL (3rd edition) to help prepare myself for a new year of teaching kindergarten.
All time favorites: short stories by Peter Taylor; The Rose by Umberto Eco; Cobra Event or anything by Richard Preston; anything by Toni Morrison.
Professional books I am reading: Squish, Sort, Paint and Build (about centers);
Want to finish: The Last Lion (bio of Churchill); My Life as a Traitor, an Iranian Memoir; A thousand Splendid Suns.
Reading opens the world to everyone.
I recently moved to kinder from 4th so this summer I am reading up on kinder routines and literacy work stations to name a few.
I also plan on some pleasure reading. I like all types of books, mysteries, romance, suspense I get a good number of my books at the library book sales and tag(yard) sales.
Happy reading to all.
The first thing I did after the last week of school was return all of the children’s books that I had checked out to my local library. As much as I love these, I only wanted to look for some books for me. I walked down the fiction aisle and grabbed several books just because they had fun covers. I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by it’s cover, but I’ve read several good books already this summer.
FOR MARTHA SHAW….
Hi, Martha! I saw you post a question about good professional books to read to help you with your first year of teaching. I do have one recommendation for you. It’s called, “The First Days of School” and is written by Harry and Rosemary Wong.
Your school might have a copy of it (many do), but if they don’t, I’d highly recommend picking it up. It’s rather long, but is broken up into very useful segments to help you with specific ideas and suggestions. There are also lots of (black and white) photographs if you need a visual to go with the description of an idea.
Best of luck to you in your new career-it’s a terrifically rewarding job!
reading is oneof my favourite past times in the summer.last year^s favourite was A Thousand SLendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. this year`s list has The Island by Victoria Hislop andBest of Friends by cathy kelly to name a few. of course there will also be the mailbox magazines and books to get me ready for september…oh how i love leisure reading!
I recently purchased five of the past Mailbox Yearbooks….yeah five! So I have been busy going through them and jotting down the ideas that I will use for next year. These are wonderful resources…I will buy the yearbook from now on!
I hope to finish “Strategies that Work…Teaching Comprehension…” etc. etc. etc. this summer.
I’m also an avid reader of Christian fiction; favorite authors include Karen Kingsbury, Francine Rivers, and Tamera Alexander. My recommendation for poolside reading this summer would be “From a Distance” and “Beyond this Moment” by Tamera Alexander.
But my students will tell you I have a million favorite books; soooooo many times as I prepare to read our “Book of the Day” aloud, I preface it by saying “This is my favorite…” and they all roll their eyes, since they know I read my favorite yesterday, and the day before, and the day before…
I live to read. I wanted to write I love to read, but I guess what I first wrote was more accurate. This summer,I am gathering ideas from my various education books, including a Mailbox book titled 500 Classroom Tips for Grades K-1. I also read a lot for pleasure. I usually read biographies, but lately a friend of mine got me hooked on Debbie Macomber books. This author has written many books about ordinary women and their families and friends. She often writes books in a series. Once you finish one, you can’t wait to start the next one. If anyone else has any favorite authors, please write.
I am a huge reader! I actually started a book club amongst the staff at my school. Nine people joined. It is a great way to see each other outside of our building. Also, I have read books that I normally wouldn’t read. For example- Loving Frank (I cannot remember the author) was so fabulous! It is about Frank Lloyd Wright and an affair he had in the early 1900s.
I have also started the Twilight series. My goal is to finish it this summer.
I agree, modeling your love of reading really gets the kids involved too. I am always recommending books to kids. They come up to me all the time asking me if I would recommend something for them because I look at the student and their interests. They really appreciate that. Happy Reading Everyone!
I have a long list of professional books I want to read. one is Jan Richardson’s guided reading book. I am also reading Cooperative Learning by Kaegan, and Cafe by the Sisters. I am trying to find the next great series to recomend to my 5th graders. I am trying the Willow series.
I enjoy reading and summer time is a great time to catch up on the things that I don’t get read during the school year. My son got me hooked on The Overlander series by Suzanne Collins. They are really for pre teens but I thought they were good and have recommended them to friends.