Happy Tuesday!
Today's tip is partly for your students and partly for you. It is a site called appropriately, What Should I Read Next?
This website is super simple to navigate. Simply type in the title of a book. Click on the title that you are thinking of...patiently wait about 10 seconds and POW!
The site delivers 'read alike' titles that you might be interested in reading. 
I tried this by putting in Beverly Cleary, my favorite children's author. It then gave me a selection of her books to begin drilling down. I chose The Mouse and the Motorcycle. When I clicked on it, it gave me a huge list of books that are at a similar reading level and general topic. This site works best with more confident readers.
However a resource that seems to work better with the younger readers is Scholastic's Book Wizard. It is also not perfect, but I think it does a decent job of meeting the needs of the younger reader.
Here is a video of how to use Scholastic's Book Wizard.
So, how do you think these two tools could be helpful for you as a teacher and also just you as a reader? I would love to hear your thoughts over on the T4 website.
Thanks,
Todd
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