This document outlines an agenda for a library improvement workshop focused on creative reading activities. The workshop covers three main topics: 1) encouraging children's enjoyment of reading, 2) developing library activities, and 3) creating sustainable, fun and effective reading programs. It includes sessions on examining perspectives and concepts of reading, recommended books, reading activities and classroom reading centers. The goal is to help participants explore ways to promote reading and improve library programs.

1. EDUCO - Adarna House
Creative Reading Activities
Library Improvement Workshop
Zarah C. Gagatiga
Teacher Librarian, Author, Storyteller, Blogger
PBBY Board Member Representing Librarians
http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com
@thecoffeegoddes (Twitter) / zarah815 (IG)

2. Library Improvement
1. How to better encourage children discover
the joys of reading;
2. Developing library activities;
3. Creating sustainable, fun and effective
reading programs.
http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com

3. Three Targets
1. Revisit our views about reading and
remember our reading history;
2. Look at the library as a concept or a set of
concepts;
3. Explore and engage in reading activities that
are sustainable, fun and effective.

4. My Reading History
http://lovealibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-first-library-card.html

5. Hi-Ho! Library, Oh!
The writer writes the
book! (2x)
Hi-ho, library oh!
The writer writes the
book!
The illustrator draws.
The publisher puts it
together.
Hi-ho! Library Oh!

6. Librarian’s Pet
It takes one book to change
someone's outlook on life.
And the someone who
delivers that life-changing
book could be a librarian
near you.
- Candy Gourlay, Author
http://www.candygourlay.com/2010/11/i-was-
librarians-pet-and-other.html

7. Why books matter
Rica Bolipata-Santos
Award winning Author
Director, ADMU
University Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=XTIx80w2Mjk

8. What is your reading history?
Handout #1: Recall the
books that you have read
and your experiences of
reading as a child and as a
teenager.
Buzz group: How do these reading
experiences influence your beliefs
about books and reading?
Handout #4: My Concept of
Reading
What ideas and concepts do
you have of reading?
Buzz group: I believe that
reading...

9. READING is...
- Reading is a sociolinguistic process
- Reading is developmental
- Reading is an interactive process
- Reading is a unitary and global skill
- Reading is physiological and psychological

10. Reading is a sociolinguistic process.
Signs and Symbols
Environment
Understanding the world
around us and how it works

11. Reading is developmental
Level I Letter- sound relations: pre-reading, initial reading and decoding
Level II Letter-sound relations: initial reading and decoding & starting advanced
decoding skills; confirmation and fluency
Level III Comprehension: reading to learn the new; Reading and understanding
complex material: multiple viewpoints
- Jeanne Chall, 1983

12. Reading is an interactive process.
Bottom - Up Model
Text --> Reader
Top - Down Model
Reader --> Text
Interactive Model
Reader
Text Author
Reading is a love triangle.
Communication happens.

13. Reading is a unitary and global skill.
READING
Word recognition Comprehension Study Skills

14. Reading is psychological and physiological.
Stimulus
Electric currents
Images
Experiences and Meaning
Piaget’s Theory of
assimilation,
accommodation and
equilibrium
Horizon of Learning Theory

15. Zoe’s road to READING Success

16. Recommended Reads
Handout #2: My Reading
List
Top Ten Books of All Time
Top Ten Must Reads for
Kids
Group Activity:
Book Swap
Reading Rigodon
Worksheet: Bookmark
Bookreviews

17. Let’s take a break!
● Post your
bookmarks on
manila paper
● What struck you in
the morning
session?
● Gallery Walk
● Ice Breaker:
○ Tai Chi Exercise

18. What is a library?
LIBRARY

20. Library matters!
● The Dewey
Decimal
Classification
Scheme (handout)
● Bulletin Board
Displays (handout)
● Group Activity:
○ DIY Bulletin Board
● Gallery Walk

21. Reading Activities
& Classroom Reading Centers
On Books and Reading Activities:
K-12 students & the community
Book Making Activity
Page 1 - Title Page
Page 2 - Beginning
Page 3 - Middle
Page 4 - End
Page 5 - Author/Illustrator Page
Story Prompts

22. Book Making Activity

23. Classroom Resource Center
Assemble a CRC that has:
a. DIY Bulletin Board
b. Self published books
c. A folder of activities and
students’ works
d. Teacher’s visual aids or
book lists and
recommended reads
Group work: five basic CRC
rules for your class
Make a poster of these
basic rules.
Use all the materials in your
kits.

24. Gallery Walk and Plenary
What is your take
away from the
afternoon session?
What is your burning
question?
Write it down on the
manila paper.