This Independent Reading Bundle includes three different resources that are designed to foster a love of reading in your middle school ELA classroom as well as support you, as a teacher, in your efforts to get your middle school ELA students to become life-long readers

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GUIDED READING FORMS

These editable conference forms can be used in your Middle Grade or Middle School classroom that uses any type of Guided Reading, small group, reading conferences, writing conference, reading workshop, writing workshops etc.

 This resource includes forms and recording sheets and forms for students and teachers to use to effectively run and organize a Guided Reading, Reading Workshop, and Writing Workshop classroom.

If you do any type of small group or conferences in your classroom, then there is a variety of forms that can be used to help you record the reading and writing of your students.

 This resource includes the following:

• Teacher Planning Forms
• Teacher Reading Conference and Reading Group recording forms
• Teacher Writing Conference and Writing Group recording forms
• Student Recording forms for Reading 

There is a page or two of genre or category recommendations. Then there is a blank page for each of these same categories. The file is 100% EDITABLE so that you can add your own book recommendations and/or categories.

The following categories and genres (with 26-60 different titles and authors already listed) are included in this resource.

1. Funny Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
2. Fantasy Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
3. Short, but Great Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
4. Realistic Fiction Book Recommendations (2 PAGES)
5. Historical Fiction Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
6. Award Winning Author Book Recommendations (2 PAGES)
7. Science Fiction or Dystopian Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
8. Inspirational Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
9. Books About Acceptance Recommendations (1 PAGE)
10. Books with Animals Recommendations (1 PAGE)
11. Books About Sports Recommendations (2 PAGES)
12. Books that are a Little Dark Recommendations
13. Books with Action Recommendations (1 PAGE)
14. Books Written in Verse Recommendations (2 PAGES)
15. Poetry Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
16. Books that Girls Tend to Love Recommendations (1 PAGE)
17. Mystery Book Recommendations (2 PAGES)
18. Books in a Series or Trilogy Recommendations (2 PAGES)
19. Young Adult Recommendations (2 PAGES)
20. Young Love and Romance Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
21. LGBTQ Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
22. Books that Address Mental Illness/Mental Health Recommendations (1 PAGE)
23. Classic Novel Book Recommendations (1 PAGE)
24. Non-Fiction Book Recommendations (2 PAGES)
25. Graphic Novel Book Recommendations (1 PAGE) 

TO EDIT:

• Simply type in the rows that have been left blank for you.
• If you need another page, after you have filled one out, simply copy and paste the entire slide in your slide view on the left-hand side, and begin filling out your new page.
• You could also just print the blank ones, and you and/or your students can write them in, as you all have book recommendations to add.

OTHER IMPORTANT NOTES

• *YA*. Next to some books, you will see the *YA* label after the title.
• This means it is a young adult novel that could have topics that some middle schoolers aren’t ready for. Again, I have not read every book, but I tried to label it according to websites such as Scholastic or Goodreads or my own knowledge of the content.

BOOKSHELF RECOMMENDATION CARDS

ORGANIZED ALPHABETICALLY BY BOOK TITLE. All the lists I created are labeled alphabetically by the book title. If you want to continue this, simply click in the row below or above where you need a new one, right-click, then ”insert below” or ”insert above.” Then type the name of your new book title and author.

These bookshelf recommendation cards are great for building a reading community in your classroom and school.

Get other teachers, administrators, parents, and your students involved in the book recommendation process.

I just print the cards on colorful card stock paper.

The following categories of cards are included in this resource:

1. Book recommendations
2. ________’ Book recommendation
3. Teacher recommendation
4. Principal recommendation
5. Counselor recommendation
6. Great book if you like __________ books
7. Great new young adult novel
8. Great new historical fiction novel
9. Great new Realistic fiction Novel
10. Great New Science Fiction novel
11. Great New Dystopian Novel
12. Great new fantasy Novel
13. Great new autobiography
14. Great new biography
15. Great new Mystery novel
16. Great new book series
17. Great new funny book
18. Great new book about love
19. Great new book that will kind of break your heart
20. Great new book written in verse
21. Great new non-Fiction Book
22. Great young adult novel
23. Great historical fiction Novel
24. Great Realistic fiction Novel
25. Great Science Fiction Novel
26. Great Dystopian Novel
27. Great fantasy Novel
28. Great autobiography
29. Great biography
30. Great Mystery novel
31. Great book series
32. Great funny book
33. great book about love
34. Great book that will kind of break your heart
35. Great book written in verse
36. Great non-Fiction Book
37. Classic Novel recommendation
38. If you like books that are a little dark
39. If you like books that are a little edgy
40. If you like books told from different Point of View
41. If you like books from award winning authors
42. If you want to read an inspirational book
43. If you want to read a book about sports
44. If you want to read a book your teacher loves
45. If you want to read a book your classmates love
46. If you want to read a book made into a movie
47. If you want to read a book coming to the big screen