Good readers can say "goodbye"

Good readers know that sometimes they need to abandon a book. We talked about some of the reasons a reader might abandon a book this morning.  

Before we even started our discussion, I asked the boys and girls to write why they think a reader might need to abandon a book and share it on our chart. 

Some of the reasons we abandon books are:

• it's too easy or too hard
• there are too many characters
• the story is too complicated
• the story is boring
• they have to return the book to the owner or Library
• the story is too similar to other texts we've read