Summer Reading Club for the Logic Stage: Series-ly Awesome Books

Summer club. The WTMA Summer Reading Club is designed to keep logic-stage students engaged in reading and discussion over the summer break. Students will come together with their instructor and peers once a week to think and talk about that week’s reading. The summer reading club is designed to follow participants’ interests, and, therefore, student input will shape individual sessions, with the instructor serving as moderator for the academic discussion. This summer’s theme is “Series-ly Awesome Books.” Students will read an exciting selection of novels that introduce popular book series, exploring captivating worlds and unforgettable characters. The club will conclude with a discussion of student reactions to the film adaptation of one of the featured books.

This course is meant to foster a student’s love of reading. There are no formal written assignments — class attendance and participation is the only requirement (in addition to reading the texts). Students who participate in all 8 sessions will receive a WTMA Summer Reading Club t-shirt. Participation credit is earned by attending the live class or by watching the recording of a class and then completing a discussion board response based on a prompt given by the instructor. You may find these prompts under “discussion board” on our course Blackboard page.

After Week 1, several students will be assigned each week to serve as discussion facilitators for our meetings. When it is your week to serve as one of the discussion leaders, you should bring with you two open-ended questions about the text to ask your peers.

Please note: We suggest you review the proposed readings so that you are aware of the literature we are teaching and that your student’s level of maturity matches it.

I thought it was so fun and enjoyable to read many books that I never read before, and most of them, I really liked, and I am just glad I got to share what I thought about the book, if it was something I could relate to, and if I liked the book of not. -Student Course Evaluation

This club was fantastic. I cannot say enough about how warmly my student was welcomed and how well the class activities were planned. My student said every class went by so fast because she was so engaged and the activities were so fun. The chosen books were relevant to the age group and were all high interest. We are a new WTMA family this summer and my student had read ONLY two full-length books last year in school (6th grade) at public school and the teachers allowed a whole month to read each. My student (and I) were intially wary that the reading might be too much, but it wasn't. My student built HUGE amounts of confidence in herself that she could read these books each week. We are so excited about the fall. Truly a fantastic course! -Parent Course Evaluation

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