First, connected reading involves both traditional print-based books and also digital forms of reading - that article that your friend posted on Facebook, your Twitter stream, a series of memes that you think are hilarious.
At NCTE 2015, I went to a presentation by Kristen Hawley Turner, Troy Hicks, and Sara Kajder where they both talked about some of the ideas from the book and shared what they're doing in classrooms.
Here are three that I really enjoyed:
Building a community of readers: On the first day of class, assign students to make a book spine poem and then have that be each students' first post on a class blog or Instagram page:
Audience & Book Selection: At the end of an independent reading project, students make a book trailer. Then, they link the book trailer to a QR code that's placed on the spine of the book in the classroom library. Free QR Code generators are easy to find, so here's a link to a Google Search for them.
Bringing Digital Reading into the Classroom: Some sites are great for digital reading, but the world of teen (and adult) brains might get distracted by all the places you can click to. Symboloo is a great site for gathering together often-visited sites (like The Atlantic, Huffington Post, NY Times), and Adblock helps you stay focused.
