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GETTING TWEENS CONNECTED TO BOOKS AND READING WITH DR. TERI LESESNE Naked Reading

WITH THE BOOKS ON THE TWO TRAIN BY SOME ANONYMOUS STUDENTS To the woman, we think you’re a teacher,

On the platform for the 2 train
you stand with a book in your hand
the pages open
Which is how you enter the train
Reading

Sometimes you smile, or frown
Once you even cried
on the train
when you were reading Night
and a man sitting across the aisle
said he cried too, when he read that book
and we thought,
we want to read that book
so we did

And then you were reading all those
basketball books
by Walter Dean Myers
so we read those too
speeding along on the 2 train
one time you saw us reading Slam
and you said
I love that book
and do you think Slam is going to make it in high
school?
We do, we think he’s going to make it

Then you were reading some really hard stuff
Epistemology of the Closet , Postmodern Narrative
Theory
and we tried those, but we think you have to have read
the books those authors have read, if you want to read
their books

Our favorite is when you are reading poetry
Picnic , Lightning
and you lean back against the seat
and smile
and keep reading the same page
again and again
we do that now and it’s really nice

Last week you were reading The Life of Pi
and we rushed out to buy it
So we could be in the lifeboat
adrift in the blue, blue sea
with the boy, the Bengal Tiger, and you

If we don’t see you next year
on the train
Maybe sometime we’ll bump into each other on the
platform
You’ll know us because
we’ll have books in our hands

MATCHES NEED TO BE MADE DELIBERATELY AND, WE HOPE, SUCCESSFULLY But we cannot leave it up to chance

“ People are so desperate to raise test scores that we could well end up with a nation of kids who can pass tests but can neither read critically nor enjoy the act of reading itself.” P. DAVID PEARSON NEA TODAY, 2004

When we begin to lose readers
Thirty years ago
High school literary canon
Twenty years ago
Middle school slump
In the past 5 years (NCLB)
Fourth grade

HOW CAN WE BUILD READERS?
The Noah Principle

Before we start, close your eyes and take a moment to think back on…
A HAPPY MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 10 YEARS OLD OR
A SAD MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 11 YEARS OLD OR
AN EMBARRASSING MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 12 YEARS OLD OR
A “TRAUMATIC” MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 13-14 YEARS OLD

Now take a moment to share one of those memories with the person to your right or left…. How different were your memories from the person next to you? They may have been very different or there may have been some similarities.

There is no one template for the tween anymore than there is no one template for any other group.

So when I began to write a book about tweens and reading…. A TITLE SOME RESEARCH A LATE NIGHT INSPIRATION

The naked child

The research?
Vickey Giles
Karen Sue Gibson
Replicated study from 20 years earlier
The questions?

What could someone do to make you WANT to read BEFORE/AFTER you read? THE CONVERSE: WHAT COULD SOMEONE DO TO MAKE YOU HATE TO READ BEFORE/AFTER YOU READ?

BEING ALLOWED TO CHOOSE ANY BOOK YOU WANT TO READ What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read? K-12

Great topic

HAVING A CLASSROOM LIBRARY (HAVING EASY ACCESS TO BOOKS) What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read? K-12

Language play

HAVING SOMEONE READ A BOOK OR CHAPTER A DAY ALOUD AUDIO FITS IN HERE What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read? K-12

GOING TO THE LIBRARY BUT BEING ABLE TO FIND GOOD BOOKS! What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read? K-12

Two versions

MEET THE AUTHOR What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read? 6-12

SEEING THE MOVIE OR TELEVISION PRODUCTION OF A BOOK. What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read?

Coming soon to a theater near you…

BEING ALLOWED TO READ BOOKS WITH LOTS OF PICTURES IN THEM. What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read? 6-12

Graphic Novels

More GNs

T-A-R-G-E-T Late night inspiration

T is for TRUST

A is for ACCESS

R is for RESPONSE

G is for GUIDANCE

Humor Develops
Basic, physical
Character and situation
Irony and Satire

Odd but true

Foul plays

Blogs and other stuff

Just plain fun

Politically incorrect

Episodic humor

Funny poems

Word play humor

Sophisticated humor

It is not very polite
to interrupt a person, of course.
But sometimes
if the person is very unpleasant
you can hardly stop yourself.

Most schools have a system
of loud bells
which startle the students and teachers
at regular intervals
and remind them
that time is passing
even more slowly than it seems.

The expression
“ Those who can’t do, teach,”
is a curious one,
because if you look at the world,
you’ll see that teachers
aren’t particularly worse than anyone else,
so perhaps the expression
might be better worded as,
“ Nobody can do anything.”

Playing with genres

E is for ENTHUSIASM

T is for TWEEN APPEAL

New series Jonah Chip

Autobiography

Trivia that’s cool

Anime meets nonfiction

Web based text

Call out boxes

I need a good book
I need a good story,
I need a good book.
The kind that explodes
Off the shelf.
I need some good writing,
Alive and exciting,
To contemplate
All by myself.

I need a good novel,
I need a good read,
I probably need
Two or three,
I need a good tale
Of love and betrayal
Or perhaps
An adventure at sea.

I need a good saga.
I need a good yarn.
A momentous and mighty
Or slight one.
But with thousands
And thousands
And thousands of books,
I need someone
To tell me
The right one.
John Lithgow

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by Teri Lesesne on Oct 16, 2008

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