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This book also includes a dynamite list of recommended "kid lit" to help parents and teachers find the books that students really like to read.

Peterson Elementary in Forth Worth, Texas. Brought to life with Miller's passionate voice, The Book Whisperer will help teachers support students of all levels on their path to reading success. Donalyn Miller has worked with a variety of upper elementary and middle school students and currently teaches fifth grade at O.A. Travel alongside the author as she leads her students to discover the ample rewards of reading and literature. No matter how far behind Miller's students may be when they start out, they end up reading an average of forty books per year, achieving high scores on standardized tests, and internalizing a love for reading that lasts long after they've left her class. Her zeal for reading is infectious and inspiring, and the results speak for themselves. She also focuses on building a classroom library of high-interest books, and above all on modeling appropriate and authentic reading behaviors. Rejecting book reports, comprehension worksheets, and other aspects of conventional instruction, Miller embraces giving students an individual choice in what they read, combined with a program for independent reading. In The Book Whisperer, Miller takes us inside her sixth grade classroom to reveal the secrets of her powerful but unusual instructional approach.

But I never let my students lose sight of what the true prize is an appreciation of reading will add more to their life than a hundred days at Six Flags ever could.Donalyn Miller is a dedicated teacher who says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. Yes, my classes participate in the schoolwide incentive programs when they are offered after all, they would blaze past the requirements anyway. For students who read a lot, these programs are neither an incentive, nor a challenge. Miller’s new book, The Book Whisperer, is a breath of fresh air. Rewarding reading with prizes cheapens it, and undermines students’ chance to appreciate the experience of reading for the possibilities that it brings to their life. And most of all, reading is a communal act that connects you to other readers, comrades who have traveled to the same remarkable places that you have and been changed by them, too. From a book’s characters, we can learn how to conduct ourselves. Through reading, we can witness all that is noble, beautiful, or horrifying about other human beings. Reading is a way to find friends who have the same problems we do and who can give advice on solving those problems. Reading allows us to travel to destinations that we will never experience outside of the pages of a book. Reading is a university course in life it makes us smarter by increasing our vocabulary and background knowledge of countless topics.

“I want my students to learn what life readers know: reading is its own reward.