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Here is the power point shared by Donalyn Miller and Teri Lesesne at the Reading for Real session in San Angelo on July 27, 2012
Transcript of San Angelo Power Point
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Reading for RealDr. Teri Lesesne@professornana
Donalyn Miller@donalynbooks
Today’s Meet:
http://www.todaysmeet.com/
SanAngelo
Slideshare
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donalynm
Workshop Topics
• Reading Aloud
• Motivating Readers
• Finding the Right Books
• Creating Reading Communities
• Resources Online and Off
• New Books: Trends, Topics,
Treats
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Revving Up Read
AloudsDonalyn Miller
“Reading aloud with children is
known to be the single most
important activity for building the
knowledge and skills they will
eventually require for learning to
read.”
— Marilyn Jager Adams
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What are your read
aloud memories?
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When do we stop
reading aloud to
children? Why?
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Benefits of Read
Alouds
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Reading aloud builds community.
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Reading aloud models fluency.
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Reading aloud reveals
how writers
write.
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Reading aloud exposes
students to
books, genres, and
authors.
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Reading aloud enhances
the
curriculum.
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Reading aloud supports
developing
readers.
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Reading aloud sends a
pleasure
message about reading.
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Selecting Read Alouds
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Dedicate regular time for
read alouds.
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Choose books from
authors who will
lead your students to
more books.
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Five authors every child
in grade ___ should know
are…
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Share a variety of texts
including
nonfiction, poetry, and
drama.
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Consider time
constraints and book
length.
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Decide how students will
view
illustrations.
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Read books that you
enjoy.
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Abandon a read aloud if
it is not working with
your students.
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Reading
Community
Suggestions
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Invite students to share
their favorite read
alouds.
Skype with an author.
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Leave a different read
aloud when you have a
substitute teacher.
World Read Aloud Day
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Ask students to select
your next read aloud.
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Post a list of the texts
you have shared.
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Ask students to sign one
of your read aloud
selections for the year.
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Spine Poetry
Lemmings
Spine Poem Haiku
Writing
Issa’s Poem
Lauren’s Poem
Jewl’s Poem
What Motivates Readers?
We asked kids and some teachers.
Here are their answers.
What teachers think
What does NOT work?
Workshop Conditions and Activities
Finding the Just Right Books
Rigor, Complexity, Common Sense
Determining Complexity
Common Core Standards Process
Quantitative measures stand as proxies for semantic and syntactic complexity: Word difficulty (frequency, length) Sentence length and syntax Some newer measures also measure
text cohesion and other features of vocabulary
Quantative
ATOS - ATOS® (Renaissance Learning) DRP - Degrees of Reading Power ®(Questar) FK - Flesch Kincaid ® Lexile - Lexile Framework® (MetaMetrics) SR - Source Rater ©(Educational Testing
Service) RM- Pearson Reading Maturity Metric© (Pearson
Education)
Translation
Reading levels
Syllables Sentences
Lexile Levels Syllables Sentences Semantics Syntax
All of these rate only how students perform on tests
Problems with Quantitative Analysis of
Books
Higher or Lower?
Guess Again!
4.8 790 4.0 680
Higher or Lower?
Hmmm….
5.7 920 5.7 960
Higher or Lower?
Guess again!
5.7 990 5.9 850
Higher or Lower
Guess again!
n/a 620 4.1 630
One More Time
Huh?
4.2 5.0
Qualitative measures complement quantitative measures:
Purpose Language conventionality and clarity Text structures Knowledge demands
Qualitative Measures
Narrative structure Shifts in time (flashback and foreshadowing) Point of view (multiple narrators, unreliable
narrator)
Language Figurative devices Irony Parody
Knowledge Demands Cultural intertextuality
Translation
Let’s go back and look at the books
again
Consider the qualitative elements now
Higher or Lower?
Higher or Lower?
Higher or Lower?
Higher or Lower
One More Time
Grade Levels RL Lexiles
2-3 2.7-5.1 420-820
4-5 4.9-7.1 740-1010
6-8 7.0-10.0 925-1185
9-10 9.7-12 1050-1335
11-12 11.0-14.0 1185-1385
Finally
Grades 2-3 Fiction
Alabama Moon Cleopatra’s Moon Under the Baseball Moon NEW MOON
Grades 4-5 Humor Jake Reinvented I Want to Grow Hair Hero by Perry Moore
Here are recommendations from
lexile.com
Grades 6-8 Graphic Novels
Sparky 11 other titles, none familiar
Grades 9-10 Mystery Koontz, Poe, Bunting
Grades 11-12 Biography Pocohantas, Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Zane
Grey
Here are recommendations from
lexile.com
A better approach
Using the resources we have at our fingertips
&Not all these formulaic means
Where do we go to get ideas about what to
read?
How can we narrow it down from the 7500+ books published annually?
How can we determine which books for which kids?
How do we then provide proof of rigor?
Conventional Wisdom
Lists
Awards lists Newbery Printz
State reading lists Bluebonnet Lone Star TAYSHAS Maverick
Starred Review lists Teens Top Ten
Where to get recommendations?
Awards
BFYA QP Notables Orbis Pictus Sibert YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Morris Great Graphic Novels for Teens Stonewall
But also…
State Lists
State Lists
State Lists
State Lists
SIX STARS
Code Name Verity. Elizabeth Wein. Fault in Our Stars, The. John Green. Z Is for Moose. Kelly Bingham, illus. by Paul O.
Zelinsky.
FIVE STARS Green. Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
Starred Reviews
FOUR STARS
Black Hole Is NOT a Hole, A. Carolyn Cinami DeCristofano, illus. by Michael Carroll
Grave Mercy. Robin LaFevers
THREE STARS Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip. Jordan
Sonnenblick Lions of Little Rock, The. Kristin Levine Wonder. R.J. Palacio
Seeing Stars
Teens Top Ten
Why Reading Communities Matter
Who is in your
reading communi
ty?
How do reading communities
benefit readers?
Increase how much you read.
Foster connections with other readers.
Challenge you to branch out.
40 Book Requirement
Poetry (anthologies):
4
Traditional Literature:
3
Realistic Fiction: 5
Historical Fiction: 4
Fantasy: 4
Science Fiction: 2
Informational: 4
Biographies,
Autobiographies,
Memoirs: 2
Graphic Novels: 1
Chapter Book
Free Choice: 11
Improve your enjoyment and appreciation of what you read.
Suggest titles for additional reading.
Encourage mindfulness about what you read and share.
Inspire you to write.
Participate in personal reading communities.
“Students should have guidance
and frequent opportunities to work
with teachers and other students
as a community of learners,
observing their teachers as
readers and writers.
—NCTE Position on the Teaching of English
“Reading Teacher (RT) a
teacher who reads and a
reader who teaches.”–Commeytas, Bisplinghoff, and Olson (2003)
56% of unenthusiastic readers
did not have a teacher who
shared a love of reading, while
64% of enthusiastic readers did
have such a teacher.
-- Nathanson, Pruslow and Levitt (2008)
Find reading
mentors.
Commit to reading more.
Bring your reading life
into the classroom.
Resources
online, offline, beyond the line
Titletalk
Blogs
Web sites
Resources
Titletalk
Last Sunday of the month 7-8 PM CST
How to Join
Use hashtag: #titletalk Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck Select "search" option using Titletalk Post using #titletalk Visit the archives (thanks Cindy!)
Blogs Great Resources for Finding Books
Best Blogs (IMHO)
Reading Rants Richie's Picks SLJ Nerdy Book Club
Fuse 8: SLJ Blog
http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8production/
Are you one of our tweeps?
@donalynbooks @professornana @catagator @colbysharp @mrschureads @paulwhankins @judyblume @kylenebeers @mindi_r @skajder
How to Build Your PLN
start following one person see who they are including in tweets #FF
forums, pages
web sites and listservs
treasure trove
Middle School Lit
http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school_lit
New Books: Some Observations
Trends, Topics, Treats
Best Books 2012
Teri’s Picks
Nonfiction and Gory
Illustrated Chapter Books
More GNs
Intensity Racheted Up
Refuse Classification
Revisiting
Bilingual Texts
Series
Silly Parodies
Kleenex Books
Poetry Parody
Adult Authors Reach Down
Revisiting
Series
Redefining format
Changing Genres
More History
Middle Grades
More in the middle
Novels in Verse
Retellings
GNs
GNs
Humor
Retellings
Novels in Verse
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Picture Books and Graphic novels
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poetry
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fiction
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Nonfiction
“I have long been convinced that
the central and most important
goal of reading instruction is to
foster a love of reading.”
–Linda Gambrell, “Creating Classroom Cultures that Foster
Reading Motivation”
