1. TAKING C A R E OF
READERS
A presentation for VSRA by
Teri S. Lesesne (rhymes with
insane)
@professornana on Twitter
doctorL@shsu.edu

2. Presentations are here:
www.slideshare.n
et/professornana

3.  C is for community
 A is for access
 R is for response
 E is for engagement
C. A. R. E.

4. Some FTF Communities
Some are hybrids
Some of my communities

6. #titletalk
 Hosted by Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp
 Last Sunday of every month
 8 pm Eastern time
 Topic announced in advance (January was
gifted readers)
 Follow the chat on Twitter
 http://titletalk.wikispaces.com

7. #bproots
 Hosted by Teri Lesesne and Donalyn Miller
 Discusses the ROOTS of our BEST
PRACTICES
 Announced a few weeks in advance
 Chat is archived:
 www.slideshare.net/donalynm
 Chat is also reported using Storify

8. Listservs
 YALSA-bk
 LIB_SCI
 NCTE Connected Communities

9. Part of my reading family

10. Reading Partners

11.  Communities can be:
Permanent or temporary
FTF or online
Formal or informal
 Communities are where we share our
reading LIVES
Building Community

12. OUR READING
LIVES
One Community We Can Share

13. My Childhood

14. My Terrible Tween Reading

15. Where’s the YA? My Teens

16. My Split Personality

17. And NOW?

18. Getting to Know YOUR
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

19.  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

20. TBR Stacking Priorities
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

21.  Recommendation from my Voxer group
 Cover
 Title
 Author
 Blurb
 Review
Setting up my TBR Stack/Shelf

22.  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

23.  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

24. A is for ACCESS

25.  Physical
 Intellectual
 Moral
 Emotional
Access Points

27.  At home
 In the classroom
 In the school library
 At hand
PHYSICAL ACCESS

28.  Not just levels and lexiles
 Level of abstraction required
 Literary elements such as flashback,
symbolism, foreshadowing
 Themes
Intellectual

29. What do these books have in
common?

30. Reading Levels
 Fahrenheit 451: 3.5 to 5.2
 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 5.2-6.5
 Speak: 4.5

31. She walked into my office on legs as long
as one of those long-legged birds that
you see in Florida - the pink ones, not the
white ones - except that she was
standing on both of them, not just one of
them, like those birds, the pink ones, and
she wasn't wearing pink, but I knew right
away that she was trouble, which those
birds usually aren't.
Access

32. 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."
Access

33. 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.
Access

34.  Kohlberg
Preconventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
Moral

35.  EQ
 Maturity
 Response
 Triggers
Emotional

36. Intellectual

37. R is for Response (Rosenblatt)
Not just one type
Interpretive
Personal
Critical
Evaluative

38. Personal/Emotive
 WHAT IS YOUR “GUT” TELLING
YOU?

39. Interpretive
 If I were the main character…

40. Critical
 Analyze and dissect

41. Evaluative
 Is it GOOD or BAD?

42. Teaching Kids to Evaluate
Reading
 Read reviews
 Create blurbs for their favorite books
 Make shelf talkers
 Do book commercials/ads
 Words to avoid
 Cute
 Funny, sad
What words would you add?

43. E is for Engagement

44.  What engagement is NOT
 What engagement IS
 How can we tell?

45. What it is and is not

46. What it IS and is NOT

47. What it involves
CHOICE
INTEREST