90 Book Bistro
Elizabeth Baroody-Solomon
Strategy Overview:
Student-driven book selection, teacher-filtered:
- Engages students in reading of their choice
- Promotes reading a wide variety of texts
- Wonderful for reducing anxiety and stress around reading with laid-back, café style atmosphere
- Great complement to other activities during a literacy block
- Offers an opportunity for the reading community/classroom to celebrate together a few times a year in recognition of their reading achievement/increased fluency
Strategy in Action
This idea is based on story highlighted by NWP, or the National Writing Project. All credit goes to Ginette Rossi, who won the Arizona K-12 Humanities Educator Award for this project. Students read for 20 minutes at a time and celebrate their reading achievement at the end of each quarter with a celebration involving food and drink, hence the Bistro component. What a great way to build fluency and increase student engagement in reading!
