Making Use of Goodreads with Students

I would like to use Goodreads with students to make them feel more involved in the reading assignments and hopefully it will encourage them to become more avid readers. I feel that this site can get older children excited about reading, because it is sort of like a Facebook for readers. They can comment with other people about books and even create quizzes and challenge friends to try them. There are many things that you can get the students to do as a teacher, like have them complete activities with the quotes they find or create and have them compose quizzes to show how well they know the book. This is a great site and in the following blogs I will describe some ways that it can be utilized in the classroom.