My Saturday Non-Book Reading

One monthly homework assignment I assign to my Reading 6 students is to NAME something they read during the month that is NOT a book and then state how reading this helped them. Here’s a padlet where my students posted their most recent non-book reading.

I spent time on Saturday morning doing some non-book reading:

At Union Station at 5:04am, I learned that my 5:25am train to Penn Station was cancelled and that there was not another train that would get me to NYC in time for the free workshops at TCRWP.

So I sadly returned home instead of training to Penn Station and taking the subway uptown to  116&Broadway for the free workshops offered generously by the smartest literacy leaders on the planet at TCRWP.

Once back home, I did more non-book reading. I read tweets for hours. It almost felt like I was there. I’m grateful to the generous learners who did make it to TCRWP and who took time to write and post their tweets. A few of my favorites:

Finally, I happily read this scoreboard after watching my favorite team play basketball on TV today:

I learn from books. I also learn from reading things that aren’t books. Like the departure board at the train station and the tweets from my TCRWP family and the scoreboard on TV! I learned LOTS today even though it wasn’t the way I thought the day would go.