New Habits

This week I started a new book by Kristin Hannah. It is call Distant Shores! I am very excited to be reading another novel by her because I have really enjoyed all the ones I have read so far. This one is quite a bit shorter than the last two I read so I will probably have it done within the next week. On that note, I have developed some new reading habits. I give full credit to this PRABE assignment because, honestly, I would not have read near as often had it not been for a grade. On the flip side of that, I did find that once I was reading material that I found to be very interesting I wanted to read all the time!! I enjoyed reading like I had never enjoyed it before which has opened my eyes to how important it is to take the time to read for fun. This is a habit I hope to pass on to my students when I am a teacher because I do want them to have a love for reading so that they can grow intellectually. I want my students to make connections with text not just for an assignment but as I read and found the genre that I connected with the most, the reading started to mean so much more to me than I ever imagined. It gave me a chance to reflect upon things in my life. Reading is a world bigger than what it seems and I cannot wait to share my new found enjoyment of it with my students one day!