mandy_cant
I'm an excellant reader and i love to read. But some of the books that are recommended for 8th graders, I could of read in like 3rd grade! So I've been trying to find some books that are for a higher reading level and the only ones i have thought of were Steven King books and those aren't that appealing to me.
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Looks like you are a girly girl-so I can help you :) As far as the boy fiction goes, I'm sadly in the dark.
I absolutely loved the Bell Jar and Girl Interupted when I was in Jr. High. I enjoyed the dark angsty side of feminism. Anne Rice wrote a few Vampire novels. I like Vampires and all the fantasy type- Too many people are going to reccomend the Twilight series, which, while it's good-might bore you a little.
The Girl with a Pearl Earing was good. Don't watch the movie, dissapointing. The Phillip Pullman Trillogy, His Dark Materials, is great for older people if you can understand the subtleties beyond "boy & girl fighting to save the world" .
If you like words, read Ella Minnow Pea. Great fun read.
And Please don't rule out Harry Potter. I didn't start them until I was about 23 and they have evolved into my favorite series.
Looks like you are a girly girl-so I can help you :) As far as the boy fiction goes, I'm sadly in the dark.
I absolutely loved the Bell Jar and Girl Interupted when I was in Jr. High. I enjoyed the dark angsty side of feminism. Anne Rice wrote a few Vampire novels. I like Vampires and all the fantasy type- Too many people are going to reccomend the Twilight series, which, while it's good-might bore you a little.
The Girl with a Pearl Earing was good. Don't watch the movie, dissapointing. The Phillip Pullman Trillogy, His Dark Materials, is great for older people if you can understand the subtleties beyond "boy & girl fighting to save the world" .
If you like words, read Ella Minnow Pea. Great fun read.
And Please don't rule out Harry Potter. I didn't start them until I was about 23 and they have evolved into my favorite series.
What other reading strategies would be good with 7th and 8th graders?
julierose8
I am teaching 7th and 8th graders. We are reading a book and I have run out of ideas of ways to have them read it. I have them partner reading, individually reading, using a strategy called fishbowl, girls read one day, boys the next, and have assigned each student a role to read. I have run out of new ideas and don't want to bore them by repeating things too much. Any other ideas on ways to split up the reading an keeping in lively for them?
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Try having one student come up and pretend to be the teacher and call on other students to read.
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Put them into groups of 4 where one person is the reader, one person asks questions about what was read for a summary, one person finds words that they might not understand and they try to figure out the meaning through the context, and one person asks a few factual questions.
It also depends on what you are reading. If it is nonfiction and can be read out of order, assign groups certain chapters and give them projects where they have to teach the other students about what they read.
Try having one student come up and pretend to be the teacher and call on other students to read.
or
Put them into groups of 4 where one person is the reader, one person asks questions about what was read for a summary, one person finds words that they might not understand and they try to figure out the meaning through the context, and one person asks a few factual questions.
It also depends on what you are reading. If it is nonfiction and can be read out of order, assign groups certain chapters and give them projects where they have to teach the other students about what they read.
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