{"id":1842,"date":"2010-09-23T14:28:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T21:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=1842"},"modified":"2018-06-23T23:14:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T03:14:24","slug":"a-snapshot-what-they-read-and-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2010\/09\/a-snapshot-what-they-read-and-why\/","title":{"rendered":"A Snapshot: What They Read and Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new school year started, for us, just ten days ago.\u00a0 I used the Library classes time to catch up with my 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students about their summer reads.<\/p>\n<p>I put together two lists: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/2010\/09\/13\/new-school-year-summer-favorites\/\" target=\"_blank\">New School Year &#8212; Summer Favorites<\/a> featuring many series and books that 4\/5 graders love and recommend for their peers, and <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dalton.org\/mslibrary\/2010\/09\/21\/6th-grade-summer-reads\/\" target=\"_blank\">6th Grade Summer Reads<\/a>, with the titles that 6th grade students shared with their friends during English\/Library classes.<\/p>\n<p>I also asked the 6th grade students to share their genre preferences and also the reasons why they liked these books so much.<\/p>\n<p>Here are two charts to demonstrate their opinions:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GenrePrefGraph.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1843\" title=\"GenrePrefGraph\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/GenrePrefGraph-1024x667.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>* OTHERS: Nonfiction, Humorous Stories, Sports<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ReasonsWeLoveBook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1844\" title=\"ReasonsWeLoveBook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ReasonsWeLoveBook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ReasonsWeLoveBook.jpg 587w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/ReasonsWeLoveBook-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new school year started, for us, just ten days ago.\u00a0 I used the Library classes time to catch up with my 4th, 5th, and 6th grade students about their summer reads. I put together two lists: New School Year &#8212; Summer Favorites featuring many series and books that 4\/5 graders love and recommend for their peers, and 6th Grade Summer Reads, with the titles that 6th grade students shared with their friends during English\/Library classes. I also asked the 6th grade students to share their genre preferences and also the reasons why they liked these books so much. Here are two charts to demonstrate their opinions: * OTHERS: Nonfiction, Humorous Stories, Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[64,22,134,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggers","category-childrens-literature","category-guest-blogger","category-school-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}