Ironically, at the exact moment that I began reading this book I was preparing my first whole-class novel unit. Miller sat down with NWP to discuss her book, The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child, the impact of the writing project experience on her teaching and writing, and the goal of moving students to become lifelong readers. 'A trail of worksheets from a teacher to their students does not build a connection with readers, only books do,' she writes.

My methods were flawed, not my implementation of them.'īy turning to her administrators and colleagues, and eventually back to books by the likes of Atwell (2007), Allen (2000), Fountas and Pinnell (2001), and Keene and Zimmerman (2007), Miller found herself transforming her traditional reading classroom into a learning workshop.

She acknowledges her attempt 'to build a reading program from broken materials. She shares her initial enthusiasm followed by the ultimate failure of her early reading units where she employed strategies such as using whole-class novels, comprehension worksheets, and key vocabulary terms.Īs a voracious reader herself, she realized, in horror, that her classroom had become the kind she herself had despised as a student. The Book Whisperer-also the title of Miller's blog for Teacher Magazine -traces Miller's personal journey as a teacher of reading. If you're looking for a text that stretches your beliefs about reading, and possibly your methodology of teaching it, then The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller is a book for you. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.Donalyn Miller offers tips on inspiring children to read in this television interview. Packed with ideas for helping students choose their own reading material, respond to text, and build capacity for lifelong reading. Contains accessible strategies, ideas, tips, lesson plans, and management tools along with lists of recommended books.Ĭo-published with Editorial Projects in Education, publisher of Education Week and Teacher magazine. Includes advice for supporting the love of reading by explicitly teaching lifelong reading habits. Teaching students to become lifelong readers.Ī companion to the best-selling The Book Whisperer, Reading in the Wild explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching 'wild' reading.īased on survey responses from more than 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, Reading in the Wild offers solid advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for future reading, and defining oneself as a reader.

The book whisperer by donalyn miller