Random Idea...

So today I was reading my email like I always do every morning and my mind started wandering. I had just clicked open an email from Barnes & Noble about the books that they have reviewed for the week and recommend that you take a look at. And I started thinking... what if you started something like that within your classroom? You could create a blog page where everyone in the class is friends and then require them to post a comment every other week about something that they have read. This can even be as short as a poem that they really liked or as long as a couple hundred page novel. With this page, the students could easily search it to find out interesting new things to read and share their love and excitement about what they are reading while, at the same time, getting them to think about what they are reading as they read it. This could be a new avenue to create excitement within the classroom about reading.