8. Book clubs: formal. FTF, temporary
Student book clubs
Teacher book clubs
Librarian book clubs
Twitter chats: informal, online, temporary
Author visits: Skype, FTF, bookstores
School Communities
9. Take a few minutes and brainstorm
with others at the table some of the
communities you could form in your
school, district, and beyond
Your Communities
16. Your reading
autobiography
So, what are the highlights of your reading life?
What are the low points?
Titles, series, authors, books you recall strongly?
17. Getting to Know Readers
Ask them to create a reading autobiography
Can be written
Can use app such as www.whenintime.com
Here is mine
Collect them, analyze them for commonalities
Identify kids who are already readers and those
who are not
18. READ BETWEEN THE LINES
HANK ZIPZER’S BOOK OF PICKLES, OOPS, I MEAN LISTS
BLACKBIRD FLY
WHEN OTIS COURTED MAMA
ABE LINCIOLN: HIS WIT AND WISDOM FROM A-Z
AFTERWORLDS
EMMA AND THE BLUE GENIE
THE $25,000 FLIGHT
ELLIE’S STORY
THE STORY OF OWEN
BIG GAME
My Reading Life Now:
Highlights from December
2014
19. SIX STARS
Brown Girl Dreaming. Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99
Family Romanov, The: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia. Candace Fleming. Random House, $18.99
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. A.S. King. Little, Brown, $18
This One Summer. Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Jillian Tamaki. First Second, $21.99 hc, $17.99 pb
FIVE STARS
100 Sideways Miles. Andrew Smith. Simon & Schuster, $17.99
Blue Lily, Lily Blue. Maggie Stiefvater. Scholastic Press, $18.99
Draw! Raul Colon. Simon & Schuster/Wiseman, $17.99
Farmer and the Clown, The. Marla Frazee. S&S/Beach Lane, $17.99
Firefly July: A Year of Very Short Poems. Paul B. Janeczko, illus. by Melissa Sweet. Candlewick, $16.99
Ghosts of Tupelo Landing, The. Sheila Turnage. Dial, $16.99
Key That Swallowed Joey Pigza, The. Jack Gantos. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $16.99
Working my way through
these
20. Recommendation from my Voxer group
Cover
Title
Author
Blurb
Review
Setting up my TBR
Stack/Shelf
23. What else do we
know about
readers?
Carlsen and
Sherrill
24. Setting aside for reading
Having a teacher show in the individual's reading
Having teachers
Being exposed to a of reading fare
Receiving help from
books
books with friends
Participating in reader-centered of literature
Being allowed freedom of in reading fare
Voices of Readers
Carlsen and Sherrill
39. At home
In the classroom
In the school library
At hand
PHYSICAL ACCESS
40. Not just levels and lexiles
Level of abstraction required
Literary elements such as flashback,
symbolism, foreshadowing
Themes
Intellectual
41. Towards the dragon's lair the
fellowship marched -- a noble
human prince, a fair elf, a surly
dwarf, and a disheveled copyright
attorney who was frantically
trying to find a way to differentiate
this story from "Lord of the
Rings."
42. On a fine summer morning during
the days of the Puritans, the prison
door in the small New England town
of B----n opened to release a
convicted adulteress, the Scarlet
Letter A embroidered on her dress,
along with the Scarlet Letters B
through J, a veritable McGuffey's
Reader of Scarlet Letters, one for
each little tyke waiting for her at the
gate.