Intermediate/Secondary Pre-service teacher session on using literature in unexpected places in the curriculum

1. Using Literature across the Curriculum
in Grades 7-12
Friday, June 3, 2016
Beth Maddigan
Education Librarian
beth.maddigan@mun.ca
Education Library
& Commons

2. Reading in Junior High & High School
• Think back to your own time
in school
• Start in Grade 12 and work
your way back through each
grade
• Change your card to green
when you have an
activity/event in mind
Memorable books & reading engagement activities

3. Reading Research
You’ve come a long way, Baby!
1970s & 1980s
“good” literature & text analysis (theme,
setting, plot and characters)
1997
Reading the Covers off Nancy Drew
2000
PISA study
2011
Howard (Dalhousie University)

4. Choice
Ross, C. (1997). Reading the covers off Nancy Drew: What readers say about series books.
Emergency Librarian, 24(5), 19.

5. Reading engagement
trumps socioeconomic status
http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/programmeforinternationalstudentassessmentpisa/33690904.pdf

6. Self identification/construction/awareness
Dalhousie University – Dr. Vivian Howard
Howard, Vivian. (2011). The Importance of Pleasure Reading in the Lives of Young Teens: Self-Identification,
Self-Construction and Self-Awareness. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 43(1), 46-55.

7. Recreational reading encouragement
Students need it!
https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/leisure-reading-position-
statement.pdf?sfvrsn=8

8. Encourage your students to read
(especially for fun)
in ANY format (magazines, graphic
novels, non-fiction, technical
manuals).
And, add reading (for fun) into
unexpected places in the curriculum

9. Meanwhile…
in the NL
curriculum
http://stor.mun.ca/bitstream/handle/123456789/36862/Literature%20in%20the%20
curriculum.pdf?sequence=2
A Snapshot of Literature Integration
Maurice Barry

10. Classroom tools
http://guides.library.mun.ca/literature_education
NLPL Electronic Resource
(need your free library card)
Memorial Electronic Resource
(U = [blank] P = mun)

11. Booktalking
Dos and Don’ts
• Do share YOUR impressions
• Do find your hook
• Don’t recap the plot
• Don’t give away the ending

12. https://youtu.be/XAq1eUucZbk

14. Who am I?

15. Fred L. Worth
wrote Super Trivia and other trivia
books in the 1970s and inserted a
single false fact to protect himself
from copyright infringement.

16. Chris Haney &
Scott Abbott
designed the game
Trivial Pursuit and used
Mr. Worth’s books “for
reference”.

17. Copyright
forgeries, fakes, red
herrings, fictions &
“paper towns”

18. Myrna Mountweazel Lillian Virginia Mountweazel
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/29/not-a-word

19. Bridge, anyone?

20. https://youtu.be/KWulNwfKqzY

21. The Illustrated London News
January 9, 1915

22. Would you use these picture books in your
classroom? How…?