Katy I S D

Taking C.A.R.E. of Readers
Katy I.S.D.
July 2015
Teri Lesesne (rhymes with
insane)

Contact Points
• @professornana on Twitter
• www.Professornana.livejournal.com
• doctorL@shsu.edu
• www.slideshare.net/professornana

Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens

• Recommendation from my Voxer group
• Cover
• Title
• Author
• Blurb
• Review
• Genre
Setting up a TBR Stack/Shelf

RECOMMENDED BEST BOOKS
2015
28 DAYS
A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
A FINE DESSERT
A SENSE OF THE INFINITE
ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
ALL THE ANSWERS
ALL THE RAGE
AN EMBER IN THE ASHES
ARES, BRINGER OF WAR
AUDACITY
BACKLASH
BIRD & DIZ
BONE GAP
BREAKOUT
CAT AND BUNNY
CHALLENGER DEEP
CHASING FREEDOM
CIRCUS MIRANDUS

CHARACTER, DRIVEN
COLONIAL MADNESS
COUNTING CROWS
DARKEST PART OF THE FOREST
DIME
ECHO
EGG, NATURE’S PERFECT PACKAGE
ELENA VANISHING
ENCHANTED AIR
ENSNARED
FIREFIGHT
FIRELY HOLLOW
FISH IN A TREE
GINGERBREAD FOR LIBERTY
GONE CRAZY IN ALABAMA
GOODBYE STRANGER
GOODNIGHT ALREADY
HELLO STRANGER
HOLD ME CLOSER
HONEY
HOPE AND OTHER LUXURIES
HOW TO BUILD A GIRL
HYPNOTIZE A TIGER
I CRAWL THROUGH IT
I DON’T WANT TO BE A FROG
IF YOU PLANT A SEED
LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET
LISTEN SLOWLY
LOOK

MAKING PRETTY
MACBETH (GN)
MILO SPECK
MOONPENNY ISLAND
MOSQUITOLAND
NIGHTBIRD
NO PARKING AT END TIMES
ONE THING STOLEN
PAPER THINGS
RAIN REIGN (2014)
RANDOM BODY PARTS
RANGER IN TIME
READ BETWEEN THE LINES
RED QUEEN
REMEMBER ME
RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE
ROLLER GIRL
SHUTTER
SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA
SKINK NO SURRENDER (Think this is 2014)
SPECIAL DELIVERY
ST. ANYTHING
STELLA BY STARLIGHT
SWEEP UP THE SUN
TEDDY MARS
THE ALEX CROW
THE BOOK SCAVENGER
THE BOY IN THE BLACK SUIT
THE CASE FOR LOVING
THE CROWN AFFAIR

THE DEATH OF THE HAT
THE GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH
THE GRIMM’S TALE
THE HANDLESS MAIDEN
THE HERO OF ROOM 138
THE LAST TIME WE SAY GOODBYE
THE NEW SMALL PERSON
THE HONEST TRUTH
THE RAT WITH THE HUMAN FACE
THE SACRED LIES OF MINNOW BLY
THE TERRIBLE TWO
THE TRUTH ABOUT TWINKIE PIE
THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY
THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE
THE WHISPER
TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE
TOAD WEATHER
UNDERTOW
UP IN THE GARDEN, DOWN IN THE DIRT
VIRGIL AND OWEN
WHEN OTIS COURTED MAMA
WHY’D THEY WEAR THAT?
WISH GIRL
WOLFIE THE BUNNY
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
X: A NOVEL

Part of Teri’s reading family

FTF
Plus #titletalk,
#nerdybookclub #bookaday,
yalsa-bk, LIB_SCI, #bproots
Some of Teri’s communities

Getting to Know Readers
• Ask them to create a reading autobiography
 Can be written
 Can use app such as www.whenintime.com
 Here is Teri's
• Collect them, analyze them for commonalities
• Identify kids who are already readers and those
who are not

Turn and talk at your tables about your
memories of reading.
And get out your smart phones or devices for a
short survey
Go to
www.kahoot.it

A short survey about reader
identity
Get ready…

What else do we
know about
readers?
Carlsen and
Sherrill

• 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
• Being allowed freedom of in reading fare
Voices of Readers
Carlsen and Sherrill

Finding the Time
• Edge time (Donalyn
Miller)
• Priority time
• Class time
26

Edge Time
• Reading on the fringes
 Appointments
 Bathroom books
 Car
 Purse or bookbag
 Phone books
• eBooks and audiobooks (more later about these)
27

How will you find time?
• Make a goal now
• Enter your time to read into your smart device
calendar
• Repeat alarm for 30 days

Binge Reading
• Rainy days
• Mental health days
• Scheduled days (once a month?)
29

When school begins again
• What time will you set aside?
• How will you encourage kids to set aside their
own time?
• Reading in the Wild vs. School Time Reading

Some Tips
• Picture books
• Graphic novels
• Quick reads
• Poem or story a day
32

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND
THE WOLF

Memories of read alouds?
Share with others
Report out

The Why
• What research says
 Alicia Martinez
 Stephen Krashen
 Jim Trelease & More
 Becoming a Nation of Readers
• What we know from our own research
 Pleasure
 Prosody
 Performance

Alicia Martinez
• Meta-analysis of all read aloud studies up to
1985
 No matter age/grade, reading aloud improved:
• Vocabulary
• Reading comprehension
• Grammatical understanding (sentence structures,
etc.)

Stephen Krashen
• When teachers read aloud and discuss stories
with students, students read more
• Students who are read aloud to check out more
library books
• Hearing stories and discussing them encourages
independent reading
• Hearing stories has a direct impact on vocabulary
development
• Children who are read to at least three times a
week read better
• Students enjoy being read to

Jim Trelease
• The Read Aloud Handbook
• First 150 pp. online here:
http://tinyurl.com/k9j3uzv

More research
• http://tinyurl.com/kb8sw5qBill Teale
• Article: Reading Aloud in Classrooms: From
the Modal Toward a "Model” by James
Hoffman, Nancy L. Roser & Jennifer Battle.
Reading Teacher (1993) Vol. 46 (6): pp. 496-
507

http://www2.readaloud.org/importanc
e?gclid=CLem3Nvi-
70CFQQT7Aodk34AcQ

http://www2.readaloud.org/imp
ortance?gclid=CLem3Nvi-
70CFQQT7Aodk34AcQ

Becoming a
Nation of Readers (1985)
• Skilled reading requires motivation
• Skilled reading is a lifelong pursuit
• Skilled reading requires activating background
knowledge
• “The single most important activity for building
knowledge required for success in reading is
reading aloud to children. “ p. 23

Serafini and Giorgis
• Reading aloud increases test scores
• Introduces readers to new titles, authors,
genres, etc.
• Provides opportunities for extended
discussions
• Demonstrates response strategies
• Increases interest in independent reading
• Gives access to text that might be
inaccessible
• Provides models of quality writing
• Supports readers’ development

PLEASURE
• SCIENTIFIC READING FACT: Human beings are
pleasure-centered.
Every time you read to a child, you’re
sending a “pleasure” message to the
child’s brain, conditioning it to associate
books and print with pleasure.
Jim Trelease http://www.trelease-on-
reading.com/read-aloud-brochure.pdf

PROSODY
• Prosody is the rhythm, stess, and intonation of
speech. It can reflect the emotional state of the
author, the presence of irony, sarcasm or other
elements of the language that is not encoded in
grammar and vocabulary.
• HUH?

BEGIN A SHORT LESSON
AKA Teachable Moments

Celebrating Cultures
• create multi-paragraph essays to
convey information about a topic
that:
• (i) present effective introductions
and concluding paragraphs;
• (ii) guide and inform the reader's
understanding of key ideas and
evidence;
• (iii) include specific facts, details,
and examples in an appropriately
organized structure; and
• (iv) use a variety of sentence
structures and transitions to link
paragraphs;
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TEKS for ELAR
• Students understand,
make inferences and
draw conclusions about
how an author's sensory
language creates
imagery in literary text
and provide evidence
from text to support their
understanding.
• Students are expected to
explain how authors
create meaning through
stylistic elements and
figurative language
emphasizing the use of
personification,
hyperbole, and refrains.
119

TEKS for NF
• (A) summarize the main ideas
and supporting details in text,
demonstrating an understanding
that a summary does not include
opinions;
• (B) explain whether facts
included in an argument are used
for or against an issue;
• (C) explain how different
organizational patterns (e.g.,
proposition-and-support, problem-
and-solution) develop the main
idea and the author's viewpoint;
and
• (D) synthesize and make logical
connections between ideas within
a text and across two or three
texts representing similar or
different genres.
120

Informational Poetry
• How could this
collection of poems
be used in a lesson
on informational
text?
• How could it be used
as a Mentor Text?
• What other use might
it have?
121

LOCATING POTENTIAL
READ ALOUDS

Crowdsourced Read
Aloud Titles
http://professornana.livejournal.com

Selections from the list
• ALABAMA MOON
• ALEXANDER AND THE TERRIBLE,
HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD DAY
• ALEXANDER WHO USED TO BE RICH LAST
SUNDAY
• AM I BLUE
• AMONG THE HIDDEN
• ANASI AND THE TALKING MELON
• ANTSY DOES TIME
• BABY

• BECAUSE OF WINN DIXIE
• BEE TREE
• BIGGER THAN A BREADBOX
• BINK AND GOLLIE
• BOY + BOT
• BOY IN THE STRIPED PAJAMAS
• BRIDGE TO TERABITHIA
• BUD NOT BUDDY

• CRANKEE DOODLE
• CRANKENSTEIN
• CREEPY CARROTS
• CROOKED KIND OF PERFECT
• DAY THE CRAYONS QUIT
• DEAR MR. MUTT
• DECEMBER
• DO NOT READ THIS BOOK
• DOGZILLA

• HARRIS AND ME
• HARRY POTTER
• HERSHEL AND THE HANNUKAH GOBLINS
• HOBBIT
• HOUSE HELD UP BY TREES
• HOW ANGEL PETERSON GOT HIS NAME
• HUSH
• I STINK
• I WANT MY HAT BACK

• LAWN BOY
• LEONARD THE TERRIBLE MONSTER
• LIBERATION OF GABRIEL KING
• LIBRARIAN WHO MEASURED THE EARTH
• LIBRARY MOUSE
• LIGHTNING THIEF
• LILY’S PURPLE PLASTIC PURSE

• MIRACLE’S BOYS
• MIRACULOUS JOURNEY OF EDWARD TULANE
• MISFITS
• MISS RUMPHIUS
• MONSTER
• MR. LEMONCELLO’S LIBRARY
• MR. WUFFLES
• NEVER TRUST A MOTHER OR THE BABYSITTER
• NIGHTJOHN
• NINO WRESTLES THE WORLD
• OF MICE AND MEN
• OFFICER BUCKLE AND GLORIa

• OWL MOON
• PETER’S CHAIR
• PIGGIE PIE
• PINK AND SAY
• PIGGIE AND GERALD
• PRESS HERE
• RIFLE
• ROLL OF THUNDER HEAR MY CRY
• RUBY HOLLER

• SPEAK
• STAND TALL
• STARGIRL
• STARRY RIVER OF THE SKY
• STORY OF FISH AND SNAIL
• STRANGER
• SWAMP ANGEL
• SYLVESTER AND THE MAGIC PEBBLE
• TALE DARK AND GRIMM
• TALE OF DESPERAUX
• TALKING EGGS
• TANGLE OF KNOTS

Observations about the list
1. Only a handful of books were mentioned more than once. Most titles were only
suggested by one individual. This suggests to me that the choices we make for reading
aloud are as individual and idiosyncratic as we are.
2. Instead of an individual title, some folks opted for the "any book by" or "all the books in
this series." I listed those separately at the end of the individual titles. I think it is interesting
that here there seemed to be more "repetition.”
3. Titles ranged from picture books to YA novels. That means, I think, that reading aloud is
taking place AFTER kids learn to read on their own. This makes me wildly happy. I know
too many instances where reading aloud ends in elementary school. How sad to think kids
do not get the chance to listen to good books after elementary school.
4. These titles accrued within 24 hours. No one seemed to have a tough time coming up
with recommendations. This also makes me happy. It means teachers have "go-to" books.
Some even mentioned reading favorites year after year.
5. I knew almost all the titles. The ones I did not know have been marked for reading ASAP.
It will serve as a good check for me in terms of knowing some of the books that resonate
with kids.

A LITTLE VARIATION:
AUDIOBOOKS

Book Walls/Doors
Jillian Heise Sarah Anderson
http://www.heisereads.com/ http://yaloveblog.com/

Literacy Lockers
http://yaloveblog.com/2013/03/24/l
iteracy-lockers/

Banned Books Display
http://thebrownbagteacher.blogspot.com/2013/09/celebrating-banned-books.html

Elementary Classroom Libraries

Middle School Classroom
Libraries

High School Classroom Libraries
http://yaloveblog.com/2012/05/29/creating-and-managing-a-classroom-library/

Why Booktalk?
To give kids a sense
of what is available

Why Booktalk?
To motivate kids to read
and to read more
and to read more widely

Why Booktalk?
To promote yourself as
someone who knows where
the good books are

Where are the good books?
• Displays are nice but…
 Have some boxes or carts marked “good books”
 Do shelf markers and shelf talkers
 Spine labels for favorite genres (mystery)
 TAB choices
 Teens Top Ten

Teens Top Ten
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
(Macmillan/St. Martin's Griffin)
• Splintered by A.G. Howard (ABRAMS/Amulet
Books)
• The Rithmatist by Brandon Sanderson (Tor
Teen)
• The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey
(Penguin/Putnam Juvenile)
• Monument 14: Sky on Fire by Emmy
Laybourne (Macmillan/Feiwel & Friends)

Teens Top Ten
• Earth Girl by Janet Edwards
(Prometheus Books /Pyr)
• The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
• Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson
(Random House/Delacorte Press)
• Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo
(Macmillan/Henry Holt Books for Young
Readers)
• The Eye of Minds by James Dashner
(Random House/Delacorte Press)

Teens Top Ten from the Past
• Eragon
• Inkheart
• Trickster’s
Choice
• Abhorsen
• The Earth, my
Butt, and other
Big Round Things
• Thief Lord
• Once upon a
Marigold
• After
• First Part Last
• Second Summer
of the Sisterhood
Which need booktalking?

Some Guidelines
• Only talk about books you have read
 It’s also nice if you liked the book but sometimes
a negative booktalk will work
 If you have not read it you cannot do an
adequate job in terms of identifying the appeal
and audience
 You cannot rely on reviews or publisher’s age
recommendations

Guidelines
• Use themes but make them broad
 Makes it easier to include multiple genres
 Widens the appeal potential
• Themes could include:
 Dealing with adversity
 Finding your way
 Life sucks…

Guidelines
• Include a variety of books considering:
 Genre
 Gender
 Audience age and interest levels
 Easy reading to books for GT readers

Genre
• Nonfiction
 See Quick Picks lists especially
• Poetry
• Blurred lines

Nitty Gritty Rules
• Booktalks need to be short and sweet
 Do not tell too much of the plot
 Perhaps do a read and tease
 Try for 10 books in 30 minutes
• You must SELL the book
 What is the most exciting thing to tell?
 How can you leave them wanting more?

More of the Nit and the Grit
• Capture the essence of the book
 Romance—the pair of lovers
 Mystery—the crime or mystery
• Sci-fi and fantasy
 Do not try to explain it all
 Hook on the real problem at the center

Finally
• Practice, practice, practice
 Start with colleagues
• Use post it notes if need be but do not write
them out
• Begin with a core and extend each time adding
2-3 new titles

Using Picture Books
to create classroom magic

So how can we use PB
biographies?
• As model for report writing
• As model for narrative versus expository text
differences
• As model for handling “difficult” events in lives of the
famous
• As model for teaching about AUDIENCE
• What else?

This read aloud brought to you by Mo Willems
•“Once upon a time there were three dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur,
Mama Dinosaur, and some other Dinosaur who happened to be
visiting from Norway.”
204

–
What does the opening
sentence tell readers?
 Setting
 Main characters
 Motif
 Archetype
 And…it’s going to be funny!
205
Plus it addresses this
CCSS (anchor standard):
Write narratives to develop
real or imagined
experiences or events
using effective technique,
well-chosen details,
and well-structured event
sequences

Biographies of Mathematicians
208

Celebrating Cultures
Through extensive reading
of stories, dramas, poems,
and myths from diverse
cultures and different time
periods, students gain
literary and cultural
knowledge as well as
familiarity with various text
structures and elements.
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Focus on the art
• Color
• Media
• Technique
• Perspective
• Composition

composition
frame placement on page

EDGE OR FRINGE READING
Finding time to read a problem? Consider this…

Finding Time to Read
• Average person can
read 300 words per
minute
• In one week, that is
31,500 words
• In one year, it is
1,512,000 words
• Average book is
75,000 words
• Can read +20 books a
year with only 15
minutes a day
• More than 1000 extra
books in a lifetime
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So how do picture books play out?
• Average picture book is 32 pages
• Average picture book can be read aloud in less
than 10 minutes
• Fluency and prosody are being modeled
• Readers are being introduced to new words
(splendiferous)

Top Reasons We Share Literature
The WHY

#2 It aids in the acquisition of
language and language
development.

#5 It aids in the development of
lifelong readers:
Unconscious Delight

lifelong readers:
Reading Autobiographically

lifelong readers:
Reading Vicariously

lifelong readers:
Reading for Philosophical
Speculation

lifelong readers:
Reading Aesthetically

#10 It can help us teach content.

• http://ifllibraries.com/post/116330953920/bruno-
mars-uptown-funk-parody-unread-book

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