Reading For the Fun of it!

I tried the Poll Daddy site out and inserted a reading poll in my blog because as a soon to be full-fledged school librarian, reading is my thing! I'm a voracious reader and read everything from school books (yes, I enjoyed reading Schools That Learn) to young adult fiction (since I work in a high school library) to all sorts of adult fiction and non-fiction too (especially cookbooks, since I love to cook and collect them). In response to my poll, one of you asked what I've read recently. Well, besides the required reading for T.E.A.M. and the three other classes I'm taking in library school, I'm currently reading Love in the Time of Cholera, and I recently finished Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict and Lance Armstrong's autobiography It's Not About the Bike. As you can see my tastes run the gamet, but what doesn't change is that I always have a book in my hand. I feel strongly that as educators we must model an appreciation for reading in order for our students to develop their own love of reading. Literacy experts call this the "Peter Effect" and have documented that teachers cannot give their students what they themselves don't have, soooooooo, I urge all of you to not delay and pick up a book you've been putting on hold! Your students will benefit and so will you!