With Valentine's Day around the corner (and a little flexibility in my lesson planning), I decided it would be worthwhile to hold a Book Speed Dating event to introduce my students to new books and teach them tools that will help them pick out books to read in the future.
For this activity, I collected books from our classroom library and our school library. I was looking for books of various genres that were high interest and highly popular, but I also wanted to pull books that may be looked over in other circumstances.
I set up 8 tables in our library with the following Speed Dating Rater form and a stack of the books the librarian and I had carefully selected with our end goal in mind.