Follow up session at UCTE

1. HELP! THEY DON’T LIKE
TO READ!

2. What teachers think

3. What does NOT work?

4. What kids say

5. The research?
 Vickey Giles
 Karen Sue Gibson
 Replicated study from 20 years earlier (Livaudais)
 The questions?

6. The Questions
What could What could
someone do someone do
to make you to make you
HATE to read WANT to read
BEFORE/AFTER BEFORE/AFTER
you read? you read?

7. What could someone do to make you
want to read BEFORE you read?
K-12
Beingallowed to choose any
book you want to read

8. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
Having a classroom library

9. What could someone do
to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
Having the teacher read a book or
chapter a day

10. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
Having the teacher take you to the
library

11. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
6-12
Having the author come to the
school

12. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
6-12
 Seeingthe movie or television production
of a book.

13. What could someone do
to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
6-12
Beingallowed to read books with
lots of pictures in them.

14. TARGET

15. T is for TRUST

18. A is for ACCESS

19. Accessing Text

20. R is for RESPONSE

21. Response

22. G is for GUIDANCE

23. Bridging between Books

24. Nonfiction
Reading Ladder
Historical
Horizontal

25. 25

26. 26

32. 32

33. 33

34. FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.
YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.
EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.
GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.
I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be
Hank Green's memoir?)
WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.
YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.
MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.
LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.
INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE.
6 word
memoirs

35. GN Reading Ladder
Growing more
complex

36. 36

40. Humor Reading
Ladder
Developmental
physical
character
situation
language

43. Form and Format
Ladder
Genres
Categories

44. E is for ENTHUSIASM

46. T is for TWEEN
and TEEN APPEAL

47. What are the current trends?
 Series (never seems to fade)
 Paranormal (though the “para” has
shifted)
 Media tie-ins
 Post apocalyptic

48. Plus some wonderful authors
 John Green
 David Levithan
 R.J. Palacio
 Zusak
 Chbosky
 Alexie
 Asher
 Draper