Montverde Academy ELA Class Participates In A Book Tasting Activity

by Nichole Smith, Montverde Academy

Sixth-grade students in Mrs. Parets’s ELA class participated in a “book tasting” activity where they sampled from 18 different fiction books, each connected to the question “How are people changed through their relationships and experiences?” With a variety of genres, topics, lengths, and Lexile levels, every reader had plenty of options to explore. Students were instructed to choose three books they hadn’t read before and were genuinely interested in.

Over the next four weeks, they’ll be assigned one of their top choices to dive into. During the tasting, students used their booklets to reflect on each title by answering three guiding questions: What do you think of the cover? What stands out from the back of the book? After the first few pages, what d