Region X 2012

How to Be aReading Sta(a)r:{ Crossing Genres with Books

 How do you find time to read? How do you decide what to read? How do you remember all the books you read? How can we share books with students? How can we show students how to connect books? FAQs

 Average person can read 300 words per  Average book is minute 75,000 words  In one week, that is  Can read +20 books a 31,500 words year with only 15 minutes a day  In one year, it is 1,512,000 words  More than 1000 extra books in a lifetimeFinding Time to Read

How do you decide what to read? { Award Lists, Starred Reviews, Favorites

First, some newbooks { May I have the envelope, please?

Caldecott

Caldecott Honor

Newbery

Newbery Honor

Geisel Award

Sibert Medal

Sibert Honor

Pura Belpre Award

Belpre Honor

Printz/Morris Award

Morris Finalist

Printz Honor

Coretta Scott King Award

Notables: Picture Books,Fiction

Notables: Middle GradeFictiongrades 3-5

Notables: Middle GradeNonfiction

Notables: Older GradeFiction

Notables: Older GradesNonfiction

Starred Reviews { Best of the best, according to some<

Starred Reviews

Favorites{ LITERATURE. Literature, books

Pinocchio

Huck Finn

Fairy tales and fantasy

Pride and Prejudice

Exploring the dark side

Magical realism

Form and format

Collections

 Crossing genre boundaries  Locating content area books  Reading across texts  Mentor texts for reading and writingOther Topics for Today

Crossing genreboundaries { Redefining genres, forms, formats

 Start with Titlewave or Amazon searches Keep blog posts for reading and use tags Search other blogs Use Twitter and hashtags Work in teamsHow to put more together

 Global warming  Bullying  Social justice  Prejudice/racism  ElectionsThemes/Topics to Explore

Locating content areamaterials { Science, math, social studies, art, music, etc.

 Children’s Book Council  Notable Trade Books in Science  Notable Trade Books in Social Studies NCTE  Notable Trade Books in Language Arts  Orbis Pictus Award ALSC  Sibert YALSA  Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults Some Resources

http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/Notable Trade Books in Science

Science as Inquiry

Life Science

Remember this name<

http://www.socialstudies.org/notable Notable Trade Books in Social Studies

Culture

Civil Rights Movement

Vietnam

Government and politics

Ethnicity

Big issues

http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/notables.html Notable Trade Books in LA

http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus Orbis Pictus

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal Sibert Award

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction Excellence in Nonfiction

Reading across texts { Making connections

Mentor texts { For reading and writing

Interrogating Texts: { 6 Reading Habits to Develop in Your First Year at Harvard

1. Previewing:Look “around” the text before you start reading. • Prefatory material • Text layout • Flap summary • Blurbs on back cover • TOC if present • Chapter titles

Prefatory Material

Text Layout

Flap Summary

Blurb on back cover

Papa was a rolling stoneThe future’s so bright, I gotta wear shadesBallroom blitzLive and let dieHold em closer, Necromancer Chapter Titles

{ Text arrangement { Knowledge of Author

{ layout { conventions

2. Annotating: “Dialogue” with yourself, the author, and the issues and ideas at stake • Annotating using post-it notes • Annotating using e-readers • Annotating using symbols• Annotating using summary words • Annotating using questions

Annotating using post-it notes

Highlight Make notes Look up wordsAnnotating using e-readers

 Develop symbol list with students  C-character  T-theme  ???Annotating using symbols

 Pausing to write one word summary of the chapter Pausing to write down two adjectives describing reader’s emotions Pausing to write three gerunds about events from chapter Pausing to write four word phrase central to events of chapter One word summary, synonymAnnotating using summary words

 Key Questions  What would happen if the main character were of the opposite sex?  Where is the story set?  What does the title tell you about the book? Does it tell the truth?  Would you film this in B&W or color and why?  If you had to design a new cover, what would it look like?Annotating using questions

Gender issues

Importance of setting

Telling it like it is

Establishing mood

Different mood?

Need new covers

Cover makeover

3. Outline, summarize, analyze. • Take information apart • Examine the parts • Reassemble in own words

Take it apart

Examine the parts

Reassemble in your ownway

Take it apart & reassemble

Applying it

Six Word Memoirs Become{Six Word Teaser Book Reports

Mystery Fantasy Werewolf Love School FightsFrom Mr. See’s class @Book’gosh

Only six words

Can you do it?

4. Look for repetitions and patterns:•Recurring images•Repeated words, phrases, types of examples, orillustrations•Consistent ways of characterizing people, events, orissues

Recurring images

Recurring words, phrases

Consistency: characters,events

{ Recurring words, phrases { Recurring imagesExamples from YA

{ repetition { repetitionApplication

5. Contextualize:After you’ve finished reading,put the reading in perspective.One word: milieu

{ Milieu OF the text { Transaction with TextSome Examples from New Books

{ Poetic bio { Feminist bioPutting it in context

What is the context?

Judging books by covers

Passing judgment

Tell story from cover

6. Compare and Contrast:Fit this text into an ongoing dialogue• Connections• Responses• Ranking/rating

Now we are back toreading ladders { Providing some guidance for readers

Different ages and stages

Options with similar themes

Sequels and prequels

Prep school bullies

 Select theme or topic Search Titlewave and Amazon for titles Arrange titles from simplest to most complex Provide choices on each rung Allow students to add to the ladder titlesConstructing Ladders

 determine the meaning of grade-level academic English words derived from Latin, Greek, or other linguistic roots and affixes Addressing TEKS

 infer the implicit theme of a work of fiction, distinguishing theme from the topic Addressing TEKS

 compare and contrast the historical and cultural settings of two literary worksAddressing TEKS

{ Anti-Semitism { HolocaustComparing settings

{ Biography { Contemporary FictionTwain then and now

{ Biography { FantasyA Dickens of a Tale or Two

 Reading/Comprehension of Literary Text/Poetry. Students understand, make inferences and draw conclusions about the structure and elements of poetry and provide evidence from text to support their understanding. Students are expected to explain how figurative language (e.g., personification, metaphors, similes, hyperbole) contributes to the meaning of a poem.Addressing TEKS

http://poetryforchildren. blogspot.com/Poetry Resources

 summarize the elements of plot development (e.g., rising action, turning point, climax, falling action, denouement) in various works of fiction;Addressing TEKS

Plot /Poetic Elements

Elements of plot

Unshelved Fridays

Plot elements

 interpret factual, quantitative, or technical information presented in maps, charts, illustrations, graphs, timelines, tables, and diagramsAddressing TEKS

Nonfiction Matters

Narrative nonfiction

Biographies

 recognize how various techniques influence viewers emotions;Visual/Media Literacy

Compare the covers

Your reaction?

Look twice

Emotional response?

From the limbs of ancient live oaks moccasins hunglike fat black sausages -- which are sometimescalled boudin noir, black pudding or blood pudding,though why anyone would refer to a sausage aspudding is hard to understand and it is even moredifficult to divine why a person would knowinglyeat something made from dried blood in the firstplace -- but be that as it may, our tale is of voodooand foul murder, not disgusting food.Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: 2011 Results

Wearily approaching the murder scene ofJeannie and Quentin Rose and needing todetermine if this was the handiwork of theScented Strangler--who had a twistedaffinity for spraying his victims with hissignature raspberry cologne--or that of acopycat, burnt-out insomniac detectiveSonny Kirkland was sure of one thing: he’dhave to stop and smell the Roses.

Within the smoking ruins of KeisterCastle, Princess Gwendolyn stared inhorror at the limp form of the loyalCentaur who died defending hervery honor; “You may force me towed,” she cried at the leering andvictorious Goblin King, “but you’llnever be half the man he was.”

As his small boat scuddedbefore a brisk breeze under asapphire sky dappled withcerulean clouds with indigobases, through cobalt seas thatdeepened to navy nearer theboat and faded to azure at thehorizon, Ian was at a loss as towhy he felt blue.

WINNERCheryl’s mind turned like thevanes of a wind-powered turbine,chopping her sparrow-likethoughts into bloody pieces thatfell onto a growing pile offorgotten memories.

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