Reading History - Lesson and Handouts
Lesson Overview
What does it mean to be literate? How do our reading experiences shape who we are? In this lesson, students reflect on a formative reading experience and use it as a springboard for tracing their reading lives by creating timelines to reflect past and present experiences. They culminate the personal reading history project through reading, writing and/or discussion.
Create a digital infographic that chronicles your reading history. We will brainstorm to decide how you want to portray your reading history. This might be a timeline, a poster, a chart, a graph, a ThingLink, or some combination. You must include references to at least 8 books in your infographic.
Be sure to include all types of experiences with reading that have shaped who you are as a reader today and illustrate the infographic using meaningful images, such as book cover art for favorite books, photos of characters or readers who have inspired you, elements of locations that they have visited or would like to visit, etc.
You will also write a one paragraph brief explaining your infographic (to be handed in separately). Remember, the objective is to reflect on your reading history and your reading future.
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Tools to use to create your reading history infographic:
Optional ResourcesTutorials
How to make an Infographic video tutorials infographics from easel.ly on Vimeo. Various Book Lists to generate ideas or to find your next great book:
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Warmup: - Guided Meditation - Journal Freewrite
Ray Vivian Nivietha Prashil Jonathan Tiffany ThinkLink example |