TAKING C. A. R. E.
TO MOTIVATE READERS
Teri Lesesne (rhymes with insane)
Contact points
 @professornana on Twitter
 Teri Lesesne on Facebook
 Professornana.livejournal.com
 LS5385blog.blogspot.com
 terilesesne@gmail.com
 www.slideshare.net/professornana
C. A. R. E.
C is for COMMUNITY
A is for ACCESS
R is for RESPONSE
E is for ENGAGEMENT
BUILDING IT, GROWING IT, EXTENDING
IT
COMMUNITY
Plus #titletalk,
#nerdybookclub #bookaday,
yalsa-bk, ccbc-net, LIB_SCI
Some of my communities
Part of Teri’s reading family
Reading Partners
Communities
 Book clubs: formal. FTF, temporary
 Student book clubs
 Teacher book clubs
 Librarian book clubs
 Mother-daughter book clubs and permutations
 Twitter chats: informal, online, temporary
 Author visits: Skype, FTF, bookstores
Your Communities
 Take a few minutes and brainstorm with
others at the table some of the
communities you could form.
OUR READING
LIVES
One Community We Can Share
Teri’s Childhood
Terrible Tween Reading
Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens
Teri’s Split Personality
And Now?
Your reading autobiography
 So, what are the highlights of your reading
life?
 What are the low points?
 Titles, series, authors, books you recall
strongly?
What can reading autobiographies tell
us?
A Community of Readers
 Setting aside for reading
 Having a teacher show in the individual's
reading
 Having teachers
 Being exposed to a of reading fare
 Receiving help from
books
books with friends
 Participating in reader-centered of
literature
A is for ACCESS
Access Points
 Physical
 Intellectual
 Moral
 Emotional
PHYSICAL ACCESS
 At home
 In the library
 At hand
Intellectual
 Not just levels and lexiles
 Level of abstraction required
 Literary elements such as flashback,
symbolism, foreshadowing
 Themes
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."
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.
Moral
 Kohlberg
Preconventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
Emotional
 EQ
 Maturity
 Response
 Triggers
What do they need to know?
What are the access points?
R is for Response (Rosenblatt)
Not just one type
Interpretive
Personal
Critical
Evaluative
Personal/Emotive
 WHAT IS YOUR “GUT”
TELLING YOU?
Interpretive
 If I were the main character…
Critical
 Analyze and dissect
Evaluative
 Is it GOOD or BAD?
What does research say?
Other Access Points
Make me laugh
Make me use my imagination
Tell a made up story
Have a mystery
Nonfiction
Are a “little” scary
Escapist
Mirrors
E is for ENGAGEMENT
IMMERSION
IMMERSION MEANS STEEPED IN ALL KINDS
OF TEXT
Picture Books
HISTORY A DAY AT A TIME
51
“Slice” of life
52
Civil Rights
53
Other Biographies
54
Caldecott 2015: Beekle
55
Viva Frida!
Sam and Dave Dig a Hole
The Right Word
This One Summer
Nana in the City
Noisy Paint Box
Some New Picture Books
Using PB with Pre-K
Dealing with tragedy
Unwanted visitors?
Elephantom
Rigor vs. Complexity
Audiobooks
 Reading with our ears promotes fluency, prosody. It
levels the field so that striving readers can access text,
too.
Pick One
Which one will you select?
Poetry or Lyrics?
Forthcoming Patrick Ness
Forthcvoming Walter Dean
Myers
GN
Old Wolf
Because they Marched
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