Book Love: Developing Depth, Stamina and Passion in Adolesce

    I found this book to be just what I need. I hear critiques of what teachers are currently doing, I hear prescriptions of what teachers need to be doing, but I so rarely hear anything about how. This book goes into great detail with copy-able strategies to increase students' engagement with literature, use that point to reach onward to reading strategies, extension into different text types, engagement with the prose, engagement with themes, and so on. The lessons this book offers seem likely to work for all but the most reading-resistant student. The proof of the pudding is in the eating, but I was enthused to be reading them. As quoted in Buehl, Smith and Wilhelm condemn traditional reading lessons as concerned only with "technical vocabulary and the details of a particular interpretation of the text." The ideas in Book Love eschew those two quagmires as well as get way further in the pursuit of reading acumen.