Sunday, September 24, 2017
Liz as a 5/6 grade reader
I teach fifth grade, but many of my strongest reading memories are from sixth grade, so I thought I'd post about both! I was a voracious reader in 5/6 grade. I read all of the Babysitters Club books, as well as Sweet Valley Twins. I loved series, because there was always another book to read. I also read more classic books and enjoyed A Little Princess and The Secret Garden, because my mom loved them too. I was not a reader of non-fiction because I couldn't bear to "waste my time" when there was SO much fiction out there that I couldn't wait to read (admittedly and unfortunately, I still feel that way!). By sixth grade, I was really starting to enjoy creepy books like Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, anything by Mary Downing Hahn - Wait Till Helen Comes and The Doll in the Garden being top favorites - and then, R.L. Stine. My mom did not want me reading R.L. Stine, and wouldn't buy them for me, so my friend Stephanie and I would gather around our 6th grade book orders, decide who would buy what, and then hand over bills and coins to our very forgiving teacher. We read and swapped and hid our books, and I STILL love reading creepy and suspenseful stories. I also strongly remember reading, discussing, writing about, and loving The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle in sixth grade. I get so excited now when any of my students are reading it, because I still love to talk about Charlotte's adventures and the mysteries on the ship.
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Liz,
ReplyDeleteI connect with your statement regarding R.L. Stine! I remember how hooked I would be on these texts. Yet, I can also remember just how terrifying they would be as a young reader. As a teacher of 8/9, I don't see these texts being read as much. How about in the younger grades? I hope they are!
You know, lots of kiddos in my fifth grade classes enjoy Goosebumps, but I can't remember the last time I saw any of the other "older" R.L. Stine books, like the Fear Street series. I remember being gleefully terrified by them all as well!
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