Community reviews for Goodreads

With so many other media available, books can get lost. This site is a great place to keep track of what you've read and find your next five books. It can also serve as a memory jogger. The fact that it doesn't have separate sections for adults and children is potentially problematic, but I've yet to hear about any problems (we book people tend to be a harmless sort). For me, the site is less about teaching and more about sharing, about creating a community of readers.

I absolutely love goodreads and have gotten much personal satisfaction being able to get titles quickly.

Students enjoyed being able to see what their peers and teachers were reading.

Students struggle to find books that they like and Goodreads addresses that struggle really nicely. I have found that even my best readers can get in a reading rut by reading the same types of books over and over. This website allows them to search others' lists of favorites, ask for suggestions based on past books they've read, or just browse by genre.

It's a great way to encourage increased independent reading! I love that it promoted literary discussions in my classrooms. It's a great tool to spark student interest in books! Kids love setting goals for how many books they're going to read, and they like challenging their friends to compete for who can read the most. Very cool!

It is a wonderful way to help make students life long readers.

Students can recommend different books and rate them based on interest.

Students can see how many books they've read, which is a good incentive to read more. They can see what they're friends thought of a book, so a discussion can take place. They can make bookshelves to categorize their books. There's so many ways to get kids to read with this site, it's ridiculous. Start using this site today.

Goodreads is an incredible website and app that puts millions of book ratings and reviews at students' fingertips. As superficial as it seems, I especially love the layout and design of the site- it's clean, colorful and easy to navigate. My students spent the majority of class time during one of our "Tech in the Classroom" days navigating and browsing through the site and the plethora of book reviews available to them. My only critique is that once a star rating is applied, the book's page must be manually refreshed for the "My Review" box to appear. It would be more efficient if the star rating triggered the opening of the "My Review" section.

Good for classroom and beyond