The 30 Book Challenge

We posed a challenge to the class this week.  The challenge is to read 30 books by the end of the school. year. While this may seem a daunting task, we did talk about the fact that it is supposed to be a challenge. The goal is for each 5th grader is to read 20 books by the end of the year, so this definitely raises the bar. Each person now has a chart glued in to the back of the reading journal to keep track. Book that have already been read this quarter certainly count! As part of the challenge, the books must be in a variety of genres, to push us all as readers out of our comfort zone. The genres include: realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, science fiction, biography, autobiography, traditional (which includes folktales, fairytales, tall tales, legends) poetry anthology, graphic novel, mystery and five your choice books. This idea came from a book we read over the summer:  The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child by Donalyn Miller