A Wild Reader Moment

Reading expert Donalyn Miller describes voracious lifelong readers who seek out books on their own as “Wild Readers.”  Here is one example of what young wild readers do.  When they are on vacation, they spontaneously send their teacher a photo of a perfect place for our class to read.  Boy, did this ever make me smile, for lots of reasons.

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And this is where I WAS actually reading when I got the picture (on the porch where the kindle is).  Pretty close!

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