My Reading Identity: Who am I as a reader?
This lesson was about making a visual representation of our reading selves. We drew, we laughed, we learned about each other as readers, and started building a reading community. We did this on a remote day. *This was developed in conjunction with my brilliant colleagues.* Standards: AASL: Inquire/Share I.C.1 . Interacting with content presented by others. I decided we needed a theme to tie a disjointed year together and settled on the question: I spent much of my summer thinking about "identity" but needed a concrete landing place for those big, abstract thoughts. I wondered what would happen if we thought about "identity" through a reading lens. We read Reading Makes You Feel Good We practiced looking at two options and showing our choice for where we like to read by holding up that number of fingers. Next, we moved on to our directed draw. When we were done drawing, we had a big reveal. Students were tasked with looking for someone with ...