Having a love for reading is a key to language and literacy development. It doesn't really matter what you read -- fiction or nonfiction, novels or newspapers, stories or blogs. It is just essential to want to read and to read a lot. What fiction do you love? What are your favorite novels, plays, and stories? I have listed my favorite novels below. Have you read any of them? When did you last curl up with your favorite reading?
My Top Twenty Novels (in alphabetical order)
A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
Die Verwandlung (The Metamorphosis) by Franz Kafka
Dr. Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
Faust by Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
L’Etranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus
Lord of the Rings by Tolkien
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Chronicles of Narnia by CS Lewis
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Vocabulary
Exercise:
1. To earn money it is ___________________ to work hard.
2. She love writing on the internet and has her own __________.
3. The little girl _________________ on the couch with her favorite book.
4. He reads newspapers online all day because he likes_____________________ better than _______________.
5. When I retire, I want to write a _______________ about people from another planet.
7 comments:
I love your list of books. I found some of my favorite books there. I might steal this idea for a later blog.
Why not?
Feel free to use my idea.
Hi Jackie,
I admired your list of books!!! I look forward to reading some of them in the near future!
I agree that a love of reading is crucial for language development and acquisition. I recently started to read for personal enjoyment and it is such a wonderful experience to connect and "curl up with a good book".
Hi Jackie! I admired your list of books, what a collection! I look forward to reading some of them in the near future. I recently started to read for personal enjoyment and it is a great experience to "curl up" with a good book!
I love these books...Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are two of my favorites since childhood! My father used to read "The Hobbit" to me before I went to bed, and now I just have an abiding love for that and for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The photo looks like me...I always curl up to read like that! There's almost nothing else I'd rather be doing!
I love these books...Tolkien and C.S. Lewis are two of my favorites since childhood! My father used to read "The Hobbit" to me before I went to bed, and now I just have an abiding love for that and for the Lord of the Rings trilogy. The photo looks like me...I always curl up to read like that! There's almost nothing else I'd rather be doing!
I love to read, always have. I agree that a love of reading is essential to developing literacy. That's why I think it is important for us, as teachers, to work to instill the love of reading in children by making reading fun. exciting and interesting. I definitely want to check out some of the books on your list on my next trip to the library!
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