Top Trending Reads In My Classroom As The School Year Wraps Up

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@Trainingonthedaily Ай бұрын

You’re my hero!

@kristenumansky8855 Ай бұрын

These are my favorite videos! Thank you to you and your students for a year of fantastic recommendations!

@bettyspaghetti4803 Ай бұрын

I have 8 days left and I just finished packing my library. I have a student who is reading the Wings of Fire series and she just finished book 7. I told her I left the fantasy cartoon on top because I knew she would need book 8. She wants to read 8 before the end of the week so she can do book 9 this weekend and 10 next week. She is getting my fantasy reader award for leading the charge into a great genre!!

@greeneileen Ай бұрын

Mr. Sharp, would you please explain your school's policy on mature content some time? I usually pre-read books you feature before sharing them with my ten-year-old twins who are growing up in Barcelona. Their reading level in English is great -I'm American from Seattle-but sometimes I'm floored by the titles make it into your 5th grade classroom. I'm not a book banner (for everyone else's kids) if that's what this sounds like but I am a parent who is selective about when my own kids get access to certain books. I recently finished The Original Ginny Moon and the themes beyond ASD were so dark I was astonished that parents were cool with it for 5th grade. Same goes for The Crossover, A Glasshouse of Stars, and Dear Martin which I've read at your recommendation. Even books I think are excellent like Fighting Words, The Icarus Show and The Boy in the Tower seem to me like they might be right hand-selected for specific readers but not necessarily for an entire group. I grew up on books with tons of orphans (because I suppose that's how authors imagined kids could have adventures without parents?), cruelty to children, extreme sexism, etc... Many of my childhood favorites when reread in adulthood are really problematic, so I do appreciate contemporary recommendations, but how are Michigan parents all on board? Not trolling, I'm genuinely curious, what does your school policy say?!

@kristenumansky8855 Ай бұрын

I am a parent of a third grader, so quite a bit younger than his students. I’ve built a home library for my child based on Colby’s recommendations. I find reading a book that is written for an elementary child is a great way to discuss difficult topics with my kid in an age appropriate way. Trust me they are exposed to so much through their friends, I am amazed sometimes at what my daughter tells me she hears kids talking about at school. Reading about difficult topics also helps to build empathy towards others. Just my 2 cents as a parent.

@greeneileen Ай бұрын

@@kristenumansky8855 I absolutely agree that's how we use books as parents. I guess I don't know or trust that kids process books individually or with their group in the same way they would at home. When the themes involve sexual abuse, child neglect, adoption trauma, death of parents, suicide, homocide, etc. I have a hard time picturing the caretaking happening for the kids for whom it is most relevant. I know this can be real for them. I mean do you have a counselor standing by or something? I sometimes hear Mr. Sharp avoiding 'scary' books with ghosts (so that they show up in What We're Reading more than recommended book videos) but I consider some of this other content more potentially nightmare-inducing than that. Personally I regret that someone didn't come between me and the sexual content in books loaned to me by a sister six years my elder when I was ten. When I give my kid a book like Dear Martin and he hands it back with a worried look when he gets to the part where a policeman shot a boy in the head at a traffic stop, I know that there's some privilege in our lives that has brought us to the point where this idea is shocking to him at age ten. But at the same time I'm not in a hurry to borrow nightmares and heartbreak in the name of empathy or literacy. There are so many good books for children. I will continue of course to preread and look for content warnings on sites like Good Reads because I can. I'm not trolling or virtue signaling or whatever. I would genuinely love to see what the school policy says.

@kristenumansky8855 Ай бұрын

@@greeneileen he doesn’t have Dear Martin or YA books in his classroom though (I don’t think). He sometimes recommends them because he read them but he has said several times he doesn’t have YA books in the classroom. Just because someone reads a book and recommends them doesn’t mean they have them in their classroom. I’ve watched almost all of his videos and rarely seen him mention a YA book at all. Maybe once or twice a year and he is clear that it’s for an older audience

@kristenumansky8855 Ай бұрын

Last year in these videos he had a student who was always reading YA and he mentioned in every video that the books were purchased by the kids parents and that they are not something he keeps in the classroom library.

@greeneileen Ай бұрын

@@kristenumansky8855 I'd still be fascinated to read the school's policy. I feel like I can usually tell by the subtext which books are twaddle when only says that they're fun or popular (cough Dogman cough), but it's harder for me to tell when they're great books which might end in therapy. My kids get plenty of cheerful nonsense in their other languages at school and we've 'finished' the Barcelona library's English collection for young readers so I'm actually buying everything they read now. It's hard on my budget when so many of them get shelved for much later.