This document summarizes a presentation by Teri Lesesne and Donalyn Miller about promoting wild and naked reading. Their goals are to discuss wild readers, naked reading, and share book recommendations. They begin by introducing themselves and their reading histories. They discuss the importance of developing a positive reading identity and having a reading family. They explore what could motivate readers before and after reading, such as choosing their own books, comfortable reading spaces, and book fairs. The presentation emphasizes the importance of physical, intellectual, emotional, and moral access to reading materials. It also discusses personal responses to reading, sharing reading experiences, and providing guidance to help readers expand their horizons. Overall, the document promotes engaging readers by cultivating trust

1. Wild Naked Reading
Teri Lesesne
and Donalyn Miller
June 2014

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4. Our Goals
O Talk about WILD readers
O Talk about NAKED reading
O Share some terrific books along the way

5. But first…
Who are we?
Our reading identities

6. Teri’s Childhood

7. Donalyn: The Early Years

8. Terrible Tween Teri

9. Donalyn In-Between

10. Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens

11. The YA-YA Years: Donalyn

12. Teri’s Split Personality

13. Torn Between Two Covers:
Donalyn

14. Your Reading Autobiography
O So, what are the highlights of your reading
life?
O What are the low points?
O Titles, series, authors, books you recall
strongly?

15. Reading Identity
“While students acquire the skills of
reading, they must develop a positive
reading identity to remain readers.”
—Serafini, 2013

16. Who is in your
Reading Family?

17. Teri’s Reading Family

18. My own family, too

19. Donalyn’s Reading Family

20. Donalyn’s family, too.

21. Origin of Title
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22. The research?
O Vickey Giles
O Karen Sue Gibson
O Replicated study from 20 years earlier
O The questions?
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23. 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?
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24. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-12
O Being allowed to choose any book you want to read
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25. Science and Math
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26. Dystopias
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27. Funny Books
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28. Picture books
(with some BIG ideas)
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29. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-5
O Reading in a comfortable place like on the floor, in a
bean bag chair, or in a rocking chair
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30. Who reads sitting UP?
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31. This is reading, too!
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32. Can you read with messy desk?
32

33. And sometimes with Post-it
notes nearby…

34. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-5
O Being allowed to buy your own book through a book
fair.
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35. Best Sellers YA
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36. YA
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37. Best Sellers MG
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38. MG

39. Picture Books

40. Picture Books

41. Picture Books

42. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-5
O Reading books for a contest
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43. Reading for Contest
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O Involves raising funds for charity
O Is optional for all students
O Not tied to a grade
O Social justice

44. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
O Having a classroom library
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45. Classroom Libraries
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O Mary Jett Simpson study reported that kids
were more likely to be engaged in books if they
were in the classroom even if the library was
across the hall.
O Eliminates excuses for not having a book to
read in hand.
O Models your thinking about the importance of
having books in the classroom.

46. Some Guidelines
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O Decide how to organize collections
O Make students the librarians
O Weed
O Develop the collection with current kids in
mind

47. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-12
O Having the teacher read a book or chapter a day
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48. Read Alouds
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50. Include NF
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51. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
O Having the teacher take you to the library
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52. Going to the Library
(going on a bear hunt)
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O Expectations
O Collaborate with the school librarian in
advance
O Circulate with kids and do random
booktalks
O Readers advisory

53. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
6-12
O Having the author come to the school
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54. Real people write books
(and they are alive, too!)
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55. Know thy authors!
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56. Tips for author visits
O Work through publisher or agent
O Sometimes authors do this themselves
O Use a contract
O Follow the contract
O Piggyback on other appearance possibilities
O Provide books for those who cannot buy them

57. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
O Seeing the movie or television production of a book.
6-12
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59. Book & Movie
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60. Book & Movie

61. Film about the book
O Memories of The Giver

62. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
6-12
O Being allowed to read books with lots of pictures in
them.
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65. NF/GN
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66. GN
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67. Deep Reading
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68. Reading in the Wild: Learning from Lifelong
Readers
Donalyn Miller

69. “The single factor most strongly
associated with reading achievement—
more than socioeconomic status or any
instructional approach—is independent
reading.”
— Stephen Krashen, The Power of Reading

70. “Reading books is the only out-of-school
activity for 16-year-olds that is linked to getting
a managerial or professional job in later life.”
—University of Oxford, 2011

71. “Regular reading not only boosts the
likelihood of an individual's academic and
economic success -- facts that are not
especially surprising -- but it also seems to
awaken a person's social and civic sense.”
— “To Read or Not to Read,” NEA, 2007

72. Think about an avid reader who you know.
What characteristics does this person possess
that show he/she is a reader?

73. Wild Readers…

74. dedicate time
for reading

75. “ If you have never said, ‘Excuse me’ to
a parking meter or bashed your shins on
a fireplug, you are probably wasting too
much valuable reading time.”
~ Sherri Chasin Calvo

76. Provide independent
reading time in class.

78. Read in the
"edges."

82. Naked Truth #1
T is for TRUST

83. KIDS NEED TO TRUST
O That we are readers and writers as well
O That we take risks with our reading and
writing
O That we know something about good books
O That we are open to their recommendations

84. Teri
Reading May 16-23 Writing May 16-23
O THE JULIAN CHAPTER
O SEVEN STORIES UP
O THE UNDERTAKING OF LILY
CHEN
O GIRLS LIKE US
O SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS
AGENDA
O REVENGE OF THE FLOWER
GIRLS
O LOOKING FOR JACK KEROUAC
O LAUGHING AT NY NIGHTMARE
O THE RIVERMAN
O Daily book blog
O Daily professional
issues blog
O Drafted chapter on
Immersion
O #bproots

85. Tween Reads

86. For Older Teens

87. Strange New Worlds

88. Taking Reading Risks

89. Risky Reading

90. Knowing the good books

91. Good books

92. Letting kids lead

93. successfully self-
select books

94. Create opportunities for students to
preview, share, and talk about books.

96. “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
Book Commer cials

97. Who is in your
reading
community?
Pr eview Stacks

98. To-Read lists Preview Stacks
Read Alouds
Book Commer cialsPr eview Stacks
Read Alouds

99. Five authors every child in grade
_________
should know.

100. Naked Truth #2
A is for ACCESS

101. Access
O Physical
O Intellectual
O Moral
O Emotional

103. Empty shelves?
For five minutes!

104. PHYSICAL ACCESS
O At home
O In the classroom
O In the school library
O At hand

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

106. 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.

107. 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."

108. 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.

109. Moral
O Kohlberg
O Preconventional
O Conventional
O Post-conventional

110. Emotional
O EQ
O Maturity
O Reponse
O Triggers

111. plan for future
reading

114. Our Reading Plans
oreading time
ofinishing a book
ospecific titles, series, genres, authors
osome day plans

115. Naked Truth #3
R is for RESPONSE

116. RESPONSE Is…
O Personal/Emotive
O Associative/Interpretive
O Critical/Close
O Evaluative/Judgment

117. exhibit reading
preferences

118. Read deeply from one author or
genre.
Read books acr oss a r ange of
difficulty.

119. Read books across a range of difficulty.
M otivation Background Knowledge
Reading Level
Reading
Compr ehension

120. Prefer fiction to nonfiction and vice
versa.

121. Follow series.

122. Read graphic novels, magazines, and
Internet content.

123. Reread favorite books.

124. Naked Truth #4
G is for GUIDANCE

125. Moving from book to book
O LADDERS
O Sideways
O Diagonal
O Step stools
O extensions

126. for instance…
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127. Building, moving, growing
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Picture book ladder

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129. 129

130. 130

131. 131

132. 132

133. 133

134. Or…
134
Family reading ladder

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136. 136

137. 137

138. 138

139. 139

140. share books and
reading with other
readers

141. “Children read more when they see other
people reading.”
--Stephen Krashen (2009)

142. “Reading Teacher (RT): a teacher who
reads and a reader who teaches”
Commeyras, Bisplinghoff and Olson
(2003)

143. 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)

144. Teachers who regularly read for pleasure are
more likely to use recommended literacy
practices in their classrooms than those
teachers who do not engage in pleasure
reading.

145. They are more likely
to recognize that reading is a social activity
and to provide opportunity for students to
talk about their reading.
Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999);
McKool & Gespass (2009)

146. Find an epicenter reader.

147. Epicenter Readers
• John Schumacher (@mrschureads)
– Watch. Connect. Read. blog
– Goodreads
– Instagram
– Twitter
• Karin Perry (@karinlibrarian)
– Karin’s Book Nook
– Goodreads
– Instagram
– Facebook
– Twitter

148. Epicenter Readers in Our Classrooms

149. Commit to reading more.

150. Bring your reading life into the classroom.

152. www.nerdybookclub.com
Participate in personal reading communities.

153. Every reader has value and a voice in our
community.

154. Naked Truth #5
E is for
ENGAGEMENT

155. A Manifesto…
Heinemann, 2015

156. T is for Teen and
Tween Appeal
And Kid Appeal, too…

157. Factors
O Character about the same age or older as
the reader (note: this is not a hard and fast
rule Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and
adults who read YA)
O Character facing situation reader might
encounter (realistic even in fantasy and sci-
fi)
O Cover, length, first paragraph, action versus
telling

158. Kid Appeal

159. Tween Appeal

160. Teen Appeal

161. Teri’s 50 Favorites 2014
O A Snicker Of Magic
O Zombie Baseball Beatdown
O Wipeout Of The Wireless Weenies
O Comics Squad Recess
O Happy Birthday Babymouse
O Grandfather Gandhi
O Firefly In July
O Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy
O The Scar Boys
O Cosmobiography Of Sun Ra

162. Teri’s 50 Favorites 2014
O A Snicker Of Magic
O Zombie Baseball Beatdown
O Wipeout Of The Wireless Weenies
O Comics Squad Recess
O Happy Birthday Babymouse
O Grandfather Gandhi
O Firefly In July
O Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy
O The Scar Boys
O Cosmobiography Of Sun Ra

163. O Poisoned Apples
O Rules Of Summer
O The Great Greene Heist
O 5, 6, 7, Nate!
O The Question Of Miracles
O Vivian Apple At The End Of The World
O Cleopatra In Space
O The Julian Chapter
O Seven Stories Up

164. O Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car Poems
O Noggin
O The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives Of
Charlotte, Emily, And Anne
O The Pilot And The Little Prince
O Emily’s Blue Period
O Baby Bear
O No Monkeys, No Chocolate
O Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, And The
Pursuit Of Everything

165. O Shakespeare Star Wars
O Pete Seeger’s The Storm
O Grasshopper Jungle
O Weasels
O F This Test
O Lindbergh, The Tale Of A Flying Mouse
O The Scraps Book
O Princess Labelmaker
O Half A Chance
O There Was An Old Cowpoke Who Swallowed
An Ant
O Jacob's New Dress

166. O Alice From Dallas
O The Grudge Keeper
O President Taft Is Stuck In The Bath
O A Catfish Take
O Stone Soup With Matzoh Balls
BE SURE TO ADD SOME OF YOUR
OWN!

167. Donalyn’s Best of 2014 (so far)
O Slideshare lists and presentations
O #bookaday Twitter event
O Goodreads
O 2014 Nerdy Book Club Shortlist

168. “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”