Looking at increasing student engagement through providing audience for our young readers and writers.

1. Info you might need…
• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/katsok
• Twitter @katsok
• Blog: Read Write Reflect
http://readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com

2. Audience Matters - Katherine Sokolowski
#TheLeadLearners

3. My favorite session ever…

4. Plan for today…
How I got here
Defining audience
Tools I use
Finding Our Voices

5. How I got here

8. What does an authentic audience for writing mean?

9. What does an authentic audience for reading mean?

10. Audience adds value.
- Katie Muhtaris and Kristin Ziemke

11. What Makes an Audience?

12. What is an audience?
World
City/ Town
School Community
Classroom Community
Conference
Self

14. Conferences

17. Book Talks

18. Studies confirm that
more access to
books and reading
material in general
results in more
independent self-
selected reading.
More independent
self-selected reading
results in more
literacy
development.
Krashen, S., Lee, SY, and McQuillan, J. 2010
School & Classroom Libraries

22. Kidblog
www.kidblog.org
$36 per teacher, per year
Audience (reading & writing) - World

24. Teaching the Art of Blogging
https://twowritingteachers.org
#sol18

25. Raegan

26. Max

27. Nerdy Book Club
https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
Free
Audience (reading & writing) - World

28. Nerdy Book Club -
Inspired by Kate Messner

31. Audience leads
to empowerment

32. Skype
http://skype.com
Free
Audience (reading & writing) - World

33. Skype ~ Possible Uses:
• Mystery Skype
• World Read Aloud Day
• Global Read Aloud
• March Book Madness
• Mock Caldecott
• Connect with an author
http://www.katemessner.com/authors
-who-skype-with-classes-book-clubs-
for-free/

36. Padlet
https://padlet.com
Free or $5 per teacher, per month.
Audience (reading & writing) - World

37. Padlet ~ Possible Uses:
• Book Log
• Research Curation
• Exit Slips
• Comprehension Checks
• Backchannel
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• Connecting Classrooms
• It’s Monday!
• Connecting outside of school

38. Padlet - Sister Classroom

39. Padlet - Reading Recommendations

40. Recommendations for future students…

42. Padlet – Classroom Community

43. Twitter
https://twitter.com
Free
My class account: @SagesHoots
Audience (reading & writing) - World

45. Twitter ~ Possible Uses:
• Tweet authors
• Share blogs
• Use hashtags -
• It’s Monday - #IMWAYR
• #readergrams
• #writergrams
• #gra18
• #sol18
• #2018MBM
• Connecting Classrooms
• Find experts

48. Classroom Book a Day -#classroombookaday
Jillian Heise - @heisereads

49. March
Book
Madness
#2018MBM
Tony Keefer
@tonykeefer
Scott Jones
@escott818
http://marchbookmadness.weebly.com

50. Global Read Aloud #gra18
https://theglobalreadaloud.com
Pernille Ripp @pernilleripp

51. Instagram
Class account: SagesHoots
Free
Audience (reading & writing) - World

52. Using stories or the
regular feed,
share book talks
with the world.
#15secbooktalks
- Colby Sharp
@colbysharp

53. Flipgrid
https://info.flipgrid.com
Free (Just announced, free to educators!)
Audience (reading & writing) - World

55. Finding Our Voices

56. The ultimate goal in this work in
creating audiences…

57. …is that by giving them an
audience…

58. …they gain confidence in
themselves…

59. …and begin to self identify as
readers and writers.

60. That our classroom is the safe
space…

61. …that allows them to figure out…

62. …how to navigate this world.

63. They just need to find their
voice.

66. Balance

68. Info you might need…
• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/katsok
• Twitter @katsok
• Blog: Read Write Reflect
http://readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com