How to choose a book?

I learned in class that teachers must know how to properly choose a book to use in the classroom with the students. This is important because depending on this right selection, or wrong, that the teacher makes is how this method going to result or not, in the teacher’s expectation towards the student’s learning. It was said that a book maybe used in different ways at different grade levels. It was also said that the book that the teacher selects should have some characteristics such as: be fresh and to have a challenging vocabulary, the book should have creative illustrations, not the ones that we or kids are used to as comics or cartoons. The book should also have a simple structure and be full of meaningful topic. Another characteristic that it should have is to interest the students to provoke through the story titles.

In the other way they’re considerations that the teacher must make when choosing a book and those are: the student’s culture, because if you are reading something that it has no connection with what the student has lived or is living, or what the student knows, well then the student might not be interested in it because is not something that she/he could understand or relate to their life.

Another consideration to make is the child’s developmental stage, because teachers should read a book or assign to read a book that is right for the student age or capability of understanding. The context of the reading is also a very important fact to consider, and I think is the most important one because not everything that is written can be read by kids, even some books or stories that are supposed to be for children and they are really not adequate for them. And to conclude the teacher, of course, needs also to select a book that is related to the theme that he/she is teaching, with the structure and the use of language, so he/ she can achieve her/his purpose, objectives and those from the curriculum, as it was said in class. There is more consideration to be noticed but here I mentioned the ones that I think were the most important.