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Because she couldn’t find a book that showed her how to use her own love of books to imbue her elementary students with the same love, Miller, Teacher Magazine blogger, decided to write her own. She recalls her personal journey as a teacher and the surprise and disappointment of learning that book loving cannot be automatically passed on to students. No more having the whole class read the same novel. She gave her students questionnaires to determine their interests and personally selected stacks of books of possible interest to them, then allowed them to read independently—at least 40 books a school year. She recounts the experience of some students struggling and others exhilarated by the freedom to read. Miller’s tactics resulted in improvement in her students’ vocabulary, comprehension, and writing. She also saw students respect book suggestions that came from a reader’s passion rather than a teacher’s agenda. Miller includes reading lists, activities, questionnaires, and other resources. Although aimed at teachers, this book will also definitely appeal to parents interested in encouraging their children to read. --Vanessa Bush

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[Starred review] Miller, a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher and blogger, has enabled students of many different backgrounds to enjoy reading and to be good at it; her students regularly score high on the Texas standardized tests. Her approach is simple yet provocative: affirm the reader in every student, allow students to choose their own books, carve out extra reading time, model authentic reading behaviors, discard timeworn reading assignments such as book reports and comprehension worksheets, and develop a classroom library filled with high-interest books. Her students regularly read more than 40 books in a school year and leave her classroom with an appreciation and love of books and reading. Miller provides many tips for teachers and parents and includes a useful list of ultimate reading suggestions picked by her students. This outstanding contribution to the literature is highly recommended for teachers, parents, and others serving young students.—Mark Bay, Univ. of the Cumberlands Lib., Williamsburg, KY (Library Journal, March 15, 2009)

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Product details

Paperback: 240 pages

Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1 edition (March 16, 2009)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 0470372273

ISBN-13: 978-0470372272

Product Dimensions:

6.8 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches

Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

Average Customer Review:

4.8 out of 5 stars

536 customer reviews

Amazon Best Sellers Rank:

#12,268 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

I am a 40 year veteran elementary reading teacher, and this book confirmed what I have always believed - LET THE STUDENTS READ SILENTLY EVERY DAY, AND GIVE THEM CHOICES! I am changing how I teach reading because of this inspirational, common sense approach to teaching reading! So glad I bought it! I'm sure I will be rereading it a number of times in the next few years! New teachers....fill your classroom with books of all genres and levels - go to used book stores, flea markets, yard sales...buy them on Amazon... your room should look like a mini library! Find out the interests of your students and find books that fit those interests. And lastly, read your own book while they are reading theirs! I can't wait to see the results in my own classroom! Great, great book!

Although Donalyn Miller writes with the middle school teachers & students in mind, there are great ideas to be gleaned for high school teachers and students, too. Much of the book is spent on explaining the "why and what" on the issue of reading and I wish there was more concrete "how" explained to give guidance on implementation in high school classrooms.I bought the Kindle version and I really wish I had the paper copy version. There are helpful figures of questions and student responses, but due to formatting issues, they break in awkward places and I can't see the text very well on the figures and illustration in the Kindle version.

Do you want to be able to motivate your students to read more? Donalyn Miller has years of experience inculcating the joy of reading into her sixth grade elementary school students, and Miller’s The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child shows teachers and parents how they can get their children excited about reading. Her thesis is that children should be able to choose books they want to read and be given time to read them in school.In chapter 1, “There and Back Again,” Miller tells the story of how she became dissatisfied with the whole-class novel and switched to reading workshops. Miller tells how she created materials with challenging questions and activities for the novel her class was reading together. Unfortunately, though, students spent little time reading and way too much time answering questions and doing activities. The result was boredom, which students associated with reading. She abandoned this approach and switched to reading workshops in which students chose books from the classroom library and read them during class. In this way, students can read interesting, level-appropriate books. Most importantly, though, they will read much more.In chapter 2, “Everybody Is a Reader,” Miller describes the three types of readers: developing, dormant and underground. Developing readers haven’t yet learned to read fluently at grade level. Dormant readers can read at grade level; however, they haven’t yet found the joy in reading. Underground readers, on the other hand, love reading, but they see no connection between the books they love and books they read at school. Miller shows how the whole-class novel hurts all of these students and how reading workshops helps. As I read the descriptions and examples of these types of students, I could identify them in my own classes and the desire to switch to workshops grew within me. In the vignette following chapter 2, Miller explains how to create surveys and use the results to recommend books students will find compelling.In chapter 3, “There’s a Time and a Place,” Miller argues for giving students time to read during class. She starts by giving students 15 minutes and gradually builds up to 30 minutes. Miller claims that if students read in class, they are more likely to read at home. Miller is not advocating independent silent reading in which students read with little or no guidance or feedback. On the contrary, Miller advocates an array of interventions for assisting students in choosing and reading level-appropriate books they enjoy. That is, Miller advocates scaffolded silent reading (ScSR).In chapter 4, “Reading Freedom,” Miller explains how she assists students. First of all, she has high expectations of her students. She requires them to read 40 books, along with a minimum number of books for each genre but giving students the freedom to choose what they will read. By giving students such a high goal, they are bound to read much more than they have in the past. In fact, Miller says that those who read the required 40 always read more, usually more than 50! Next, Miller empowers her students with the 10 rights of the reader. Then, Miller clearly explains how she attracts student interest through read-alouds and book journals, which she uses to communicate with students about their reading.In chapter 5, “Walking the Walk,” Miller implores reading teachers to regularly read children’s novels in order to become good models, give students good recommendations, and better understand their students. She recommends children’s books throughout her book, and appendix A provides readers with the “Ultimate Library List,” a list of 100 books recommended not by Miller but rather by her students.In chapter 6, “Cutting the Teacher Strings,” Miller questions traditional reading activities and recommends alternatives. For traditional teachers, she shows how they can make slight modifications in their procedures to improve learning outcomes. For brave teachers who can defy tradition, she explains how to achieve course objectives while allowing students to choose books and providing them with time to read them in class. Furthermore, Miller offers superior alternatives to traditional comprehension tests, book reports, reading logs and round-robin reading.In the final chapter, “Letting Go,” Miller laments that the vast majority of teachers do not take her approach to reading. As a result, her students have to go back to traditional reading classes when they move up to the next grade. She wishes that more teachers would inculcate the love of reading into their students instead of inundating them with worksheets.The Book Whisperer should be read by parents and teachers who want their children to read a lot more. Parents will feel more confident in motivating their children to read. Teachers will feel more confident in creating the conditions for learning and enabling their students to read more than they have ever before. Foreign language teachers will appreciate Miller’s strategies, activities and techniques for extensive reading. In short, this is an indispensable book for anyone interested in creating a culture of reading.

I read this book in one night, on a whim. As someone who has been bogged down by required reading myself after finishing a degree and trying to slog through pages of our newly adopted curriculum, this book was like a breath of fresh air. Or a visit from an old friend. It was also a challenge to read. Be prepared for your paradigm to shift and your world to get rocked. I am that teacher who has faithfully taught the whole class novel year in, and year out. I didn't notice "the wallpaper" on the wall. I'm so excited to get my students reading and do the 40 book challenge with them! How important to rediscover the things that make us love reading, the freedom of choice. Great book! Every teacher needs to read it!

She definitely makes a convincing argument for providing more time for students to read self-selected, high-interest books. I was hoping for more "instructional" advice, ideas for implementing writing standards using their books, how she takes grades, how she draws on their books to create whole class learning experiences (she starts to talk about this at a few different points and then shies away from it), etc. Perhaps I had the wrong expectations for this book as it was almost exclusively an argument with the author's personal experiences with a select number of students about students having more time to read self-selected books independently. Not a waste of time to read it - I did get several great ideas, I was just hoping to get more information from an instructional stand point.

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