I have to confess that most of my reading this past week has been swimsuit catalogs and vacation rental information. My modus operandi is thinking ahead, and ahead is summer break! I am still working my way through my grown-up novel and Gilbert's Big Magic; morning reading is my most consistent practice.
When I surveyed my students to see if they identified as readers, I reminded them that they are, at the very least, environmental readers. I think we adults sometimes forget just how much reading we do outside of a book on a daily basis. Here's the list I've come up with:
- Emails
- Ads
- Social media posts
- The clock
- The calendar
- Planners
- To-do lists
- Decorative print (on my coffee mug)
- Our car dashboard
- Traffic signs
- Billboards
- Stereo tuner
- More emails
- Computer programs (i.e. our inventory system)
- Reports
- Directions
- Labels
- Receipts
- Greeting cards
- Anything on our phones--the weather, notifications, app names...
I will have read most of this list before 10a this morning. When you stop to think about what you read in a day, do you consider environmental print?
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