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. 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. Donalyn Miller’s second book, Reading in the Wild: The Book Whisperer’s Keys to Cultivating Lifelong Reading Habits, holds possibilities for addressing the chasm into which these non-committed readers might fall. 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. Be sure to subscribe to my videos so that you don't miss anything.Donalyn Miller is the author of The Book Whisperer. 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.
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