Garden City middle schoolers ‘taste’ books in Starbooks Café
On Dec. 19, students in Mrs. Kristen Aguilo’s classes participated in a visit to Starbooks Café’s book tasting by sampling different books and selecting their favorites. Students first “sipped” the books by identifying their title, author and genre and then “tasted” them by analyzing the summary on the back page. Lastly, students read portions of the books, wrote if they would consider reading each one and rated them out of five stars.
The books read by the students fell into eight different genres including fantasy, biography and traditional literature. At the end of the lesson, each student completed an order form with their top five book choices and filled out a corresponding reflection about the most interesting information they learned.
“The goal of this lesson is for students to sample many different books of all genres,” said Mrs. Aguilo. “This way, students can find a book they really enjoy and read it on their own.”
