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Erving’s Favorite Books Project

For the Kindergarten class please click here for your worksheet

Parents and Guardians:

Our students in kindergarten through 6th grade had a chance to interview a special guest about a favorite book from childhood.

Now our students will interview someone closer to them such as a parent, guardian or other family member, or a close family friend or neighbor.

Your child may need help writing down the answers, so feel free to assist, even by writing the answers yourself—but please do it while your child is with you, so that you are working on this together.

This is a chance for your child to hear about your favorite reading experience, and share that positive memory with you. We hope you will reflect on your past reading and talk honestly to your child about it, even if reading was difficult and/or not necessarily an activity you chose to do.  Ultimately we hope your children—our students—will make their own positive connections to reading and discover the life-long joys reading can bring. Thank you for contributing to this important goal.

Students: You don’t have to get answers to all of the questions, but try to ask as many as possible. You might also find that the person you are inter-viewing will have other things to tell you about his or her favorite book.

The most important thing is to have fun interviewing this special person.

My name is:

I interviewed:

INTERVIEW QUESTIONS:

1. What was your favorite book when you were a child?
2. Did it have chapters or was it a picture book?
3. How old were you when this was your favorite book?
4. What do you remember about the book? Can you describe what it was about?
5. Who was your favorite character and/or what was your favorite part?
6. Who introduced the book to you and/or how did you come to have the book?
7. Did you have a favorite place to read when you were a child? Where was it?
8. Are you reading a book right now? If so, what is the title of it?
9. Some questions about your childhood:
   Where did you grow up? Where did you go to school? Did you like to read? Did you like to go to the library? Is there anything else or any stories about your childhood you would like to tell me about?

Please draw us a picture of your interview. It could be a picture of you and the special person you interviewed, or it could be a picture from that person’s favorite book.