The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

ISBN: 9780470372272 ISBN10: 0470372273.
Written by: D Miller.
Softcover, 240 pp..
Miller, a sixth-grade language arts and social studies teacher, has enabled students of many different backgrounds to enjoy reading and to be good at it. Her approach is simple yet provocative; affirm the reader in every student, allow students to choose their own books, carve out extra reading time, model authentic reading behaviors, discard timeworn reading assignments such as book reports and comprehension worksheets, and develop a classroom library filled with high-interest books. Her students regularly read more than 40 books in a school year and leave her classroom with an appreciation and love of books and reading. Miller provides many tips for teachers and parents and includes a useful list of ultimate reading suggestions picked by her students.