This document discusses key aspects of developing lifelong readers, including providing students with a balanced variety of reading materials, teaching smart reading strategies, and creating social opportunities to interact around books. It emphasizes ensuring access to print resources and a diversity of texts at different reading levels. The document recommends instructional practices that incorporate trade books into various subject areas to enrich learning. It also stresses the importance of evaluating and increasing the quality of classroom and library collections to engage students and support differentiated learning.

2. What I Read
What I Don’t Read
And
What I Know

3. •Inquire, think critically and gain knowledge
•Draw conclusions, make informed decisions, apply
knowledge to new situations, and create new
knowledge
•Share knowledge and participate ethically and
productively as members of our democratic society
•Pursue personal and aesthetic growth.

6. What Lifelong Readers Need
1. A balanced diet of reading materials
2. A growing repertoire or smart-reader
strategies
3. The social skills to interact around
books and ideas

7. Reading Volume / Access to Print
1. The diversity of texts in all
classrooms
2. The level of reading volume
among students
3. The number of opportunities
students have to read during the
school day

9. Vocabulary
1. Ensure there are a variety of
books at a range of reading levels
in each classroom so that all
students can learn from reading

14. Instructional practices involving the
use of trade books in content areas
help to extend and enrich the
curriculum

30. http://www.aeaweb.org/annual_mtg_papers/2007/0105_0800_0201.pdf

35. national campaign

49.  inquiry
 providing access to print
 using resources to engage and motivate
 going beyond the textbook
 diverse learners - differentiation
 being authentic
 using concepts - essential questions
 any or all of the above!

55. Range, Quality and Complexity of
Student Reading 6-12
“Given space limitations, the
illustrative texts listed above are…
representative of a range of topics &
genres…”

56. Additional recommendations
1. Teach students strategies for selecting
books
2. Provide professional development to
teachers to locate, select, and use a
wide range of diverse materials in
their classrooms and instruction.

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58. Additional recommendations…
3. Evaluate the quality of reading
materials
4. Secure an adequate budget to increase
classroom collections, continue to
build quality central library
collections, and enable easy access to
electronic texts in every classroom.

59. •Put library on your checklist
•Look for partners
•Use the AEA libraries
Expect more…

60. Iowa reading test scores rise with the
development of school library
programs. The relationship between
library program development and test
scores is not explained away by other
school or community conditions at the
elementary level.

61. Kristin Steingreaber
GPAEA Media
Specialist
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