Independent Reading

1. Independent Reading Examples of ways to introduce independent reading, expectations for independent reading, and rubric for assessing independent reading

2. Introducing Independent Reading • Show book trailers for popular books • Shoe movie clips for books that have movies • Have students share books that they’re reading • Book Pass (see independent reading section) • Use affective assessments to match students with books their interested in • Find books with commonalities to students such as race

3. Book Trailer Examples • Speak by: Laurie Halse Anderson • I Am Number Four by: Pitticus Lore • Cryptid Hunters by: Roland Smith (These are just examples. All info was found on the internet/youtube) Do Not use these unless you have the books in your classroom.

4. Speak Melinda Sordino busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now her old friends won't talk to her, and people she doesn't even know hate her from a distance. The safest place to be is alone, inside her own head. But even that's not safe. Because there's something she's trying not to think about, something about the night of the party that, if she let it in, would blow her carefully constructed disguise to smithereens. And then she would have to speak the truth. This extraordinary first novel has captured the imaginations of teenagers and adults across the country.

6. I Am Number Four There were nine. Three are dead. I Am Number Four. Nine teenagers and their guardians are hiding on Earth … protected by a charm that means they can only be killed in numeric order, three are already dead. John Smith is Number Four. And his mortal enemies, the Mogadorian, are hunting him down The only way to keep off radar is to keep moving, never staying in one place for long. Finally in the firing line, all he can do is adopt the guise of a student and pray his unusual gifts – his legacies home; Planet Lorien – stay hidden long enough for him to settle into this new community. But others seem to sense his otherness and when small-town life sucks him into its intrigues, it’s only a matter of time before his true nature is revealed. And that means there’s no space for love, friendship or a future if it means protecting not only himself, but the other five …

8. Cryptid Hunters After their parents are lost in an accident, thirteen-year old twins Grace and Marty are whisked away to live with their Uncle Wolfe-an uncle that they didn't even know they had The intimidating Uncle Wolfe is an anthropologist who has dedicated his life to finding cryptids, mysterious creatures believed to be long extinct.