Booktalking

Is it a real pit or a metaphorical pit? Find out in this episode!

Some self-reflection in this this double Diary of a Wimpy Kid episode!

I hope you're PARTIAL to these books and have around double SIX minutes to listen to this podcast!

Two series make their debut on Booktalking!

It's a romance novel episode so big we needed THREE people to get on the mic!

We hear about One Thousand Pieces of You (the famous sequel to 999 Pieces of You), and listen for the audible gasps from some of the revelations in Legend.

Join us, won't you, as we talk mythology and post-apocalyptic earths in The Son of Neptune and Lies.

It's double podcast Thursday! Another helping of podcast brings us Inkheart and The Murder Complex.

The volume on this one is kind of funny, but you can still catch up on It's Kind of a Funny Story and the Kingdom Hearts series (minus volume 3).

A great emotional reaction to one of these novels greets you in Episode 9 of Booktalking!

50% of the giggling was cut out, but we're still left with an ample amount when these students discuss The Kill Order and Don't Look Back.

In an extra spoooooky and extra delaaaayed episode, two students have a discussion on Halloween about the two books that they are reading. One of them is dressed as the Joker!

Listen closely, and you'll hear a genuine text-to-text connection in this here podcast. In this episode, we discuss Matched and Mortal Danger.

Who is the sister's keeper? Who will become The One? What is leukemia? All these questions and more in this episode of Booktalking!

Kuroko's Basketball, our second manga in a row, is discussed as is Gang Tackle, a book about a football team dealing with a big problem.

Even though one of our hosts has mistakenly been referring to his book as "Gene Luen Yang," he's actually reading the book "Boxers" (by Gene Yang!) while our other host has read Son of Neptune.

Two students who are both reading the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series sit down to talk about the volumes they are both finishing.

Two students discuss Stephen King and VC Andrews, but the biggest question remains: why was mom calling in the middle of the podcast??

In this episode, I introduce the concept of the podcast - that we read books and then talk about them. Its...pretty self-explanatory? The rationale behind podcasting our talks is that when we have authentic ways of demonstrating our learning, it makes the learning itself more authentic. Students are having great discussions about their books now, but this is a way to really showcase that learning that is more authentic than just talking in class. Additionally, we're working on our skills in questioning as we listen to others talk about our books and make connections to ourselves, the world, and other texts.