Reading Minute

Upper Ed lesson plan but would be fun to adapt down.
Could be used as a podcast or a skype share, that type of thing. Author purpose, text structure.....

At the beginning of each class period, a piece of interesting reading is shared with the class. This sharing usually takes a minute or less, and there are no follow up assignments. The shared reading can come from a range of sources, poetry to nonfiction. The selections may be culled from newspapers, magazines, novels, textbooks-anywhere we, as readers, come across interesting text. All the Reading Minutes share one goal: to demonstrate that there is a world of reading richness out there.