Sounds of moving tables and chairs, whispers and steps. If you could take a look through a tiny hole on the wall you will see a group of students reorganizing the classroom. You will see all the tables and chairs located next to the walls. And after that, silence! If you could get closer and look what is on the tables, you will see many pictures and drawings maybe some of them have a comment on a post-it. But these are not normal drawings, more concrete they are READING MAP drawings.

What these reading map express is if you like reading, how did you start reading, what kind of books you liked at different ages, what is your favorite book until the moment, what books have you read and how is your “reading life” changing and developing.

After have seen all the pictures and have written some comments (because aside from the reading map, there are so many artist in the class J), we had to choose our favorite reading map of the half group two without seeing at whom it belonged while they were outside the classroom.

I chose one so nice which had some pictures, sentences and things in 3D that you could touch and move. But the main reason why I chose that pictures was because of the tittles’ books that there were written on it. There were many of the books that I have read during my life. When the others came into the class, they had to look for the person who had their picture. I was talking with the owner of the drawing for a while about some books, our opinion of the stories, if we liked them or not, how much time we spent in reading them and giving each other some suggestions of books that we liked but the other has not yet had the opportunity to read.

After some minutes, the half group one left the classroom and the operation with the reading maps was repeated.

The thing I liked the most of this museum was the “surprising fact”. When we picked a drawing we did not know at whom it belonged. Some people chose the reading map of the last person they think they will have something in common. Then, they started talking and they realize that both of them have the same taste of books.

Sometimes, we think we are so different between us and this activity, which I liked a lot and that I will definitely do with my students, taught us that we are not as different as we think we are.