I just created this video for my students about the reading autobiography. For those of you who have asked questions, I thought this might be of interest:

http://youtu.be/WIrvXYdsQTg?hd=1

I have been fielding requests for more information about the reading autobiography I ask my students to create for the YA literature class I teach. As I mentioned already, this "assignment" originated with G. Robert Carlsen many decades ago and was the first assignment I did when I took YA literature class from Dick Abrahamsson more than 20 years ( Read more... )

During #titletalk tonight someone asked me about the reference to the reading autobiography. It is something I have been doing with students for more than 25 years. Additionally, it is something I did as part of my own classwork with Dick Abrahamson. Dick himself did the same thing when he took classes with G. Robert Carlsen. Carlsen and his ( Read more... )