Taking C.A.R.E. of Readers: Tips from Professors Teri and Karin

Taking C.A.R.E. of Readers
Pasadena ISD
October 2015
Slideshare.net/ProfessorNana

Teri Lesesne
(rhymes with insane)
•  @professornana
•  LS5385blog.blogspot.com
•  Professornana.livejournal.com
•  doctorL@shsu.edu

Karin Perry
(rhymes with berry)
•  @kperry
•  http://www.karinsbooknook.com
•  http://karinlibrarian.tumblr.com
•  kperry@shsu.edu

Karin: the early years
Lassie – Little Golden Books
Disney Book-of-the-Month Club

Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens

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

Starred Review Books 2015
SIX STARS
•  Boys Who Challenged Hitler, The: Knud Pedersen and the Churchill Club. Philip Hoose.
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $19.99. ISBN 9780374300227 BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Challenger Deep. Neal Shusterman, illus. by Brendan Shusterman. HarperTeen, $17.99. ISBN
9780061134111 BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans. Don Brown. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,
$18.99. ISBN 9780544157774 BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Goodbye Stranger. Rebecca Stead. Random House/Lamb, $16.99. ISBN 9780385743174
BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Lost in NYC: A Subway Adventure. Nadja Spiegelman, illus. by Sergio Garcia Sanchez. Toon
Graphics, $16.95. ISBN 9781935179818 BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Tightrope Walkers, The. David Almond. Candlewick, $17.99. ISBN 9780763673109 BCCB,
BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  X: A Novel. Ilyasah Shabazz with Kekla Magoon. Candlewick, $16.99. ISBN 9780763669676
BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ

More Stars
FIVE STARS
•  Alex Crow, The. Andrew Smith. Dutton, $18.99. ISBN 9780525426530 BCCB, BL, HB, K, PW
•  Cuckoo Song. Frances Hardinge. Abrams/Amulet, $17.95. ISBN: 9781419714801 BCCB, BL,
K, PW, SLJ
•  Earmuffs for Everyone! How Chester Greenwood Became Known as the Inventor of
Earmuffs. Meghan McCarthy. S&S/Wiseman, $17.99. ISBN 9781481406376 BCCB, BL, K,
PW, SLJ
•  Hired Girl, The. Laura Amy Schlitz. Candlewick, $17.99. ISBN 9780763678180 BL, HB, K, PW,
SLJ
•  Lost in the Sun. Lisa Graff. Philomel, $16.99. ISBN 9780399164064 BCCB, BL, K, PW, SLJ
•  Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War. Steve
Sheinkin. Roaring Brook, $19.99. ISBN 9781596439528 BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Roller Girl. Victoria Jamieson. Dial, pb $12.99. ISBN 9780803740167 BCCB, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Supertruck. Stephen Savage. Roaring Brook/Porter, $12.99. ISBN 9781596438217 BL, HB, K,
PW, SLJ
•  Wait. Antoinette Portis. Roaring Brook/Porter, $16.99. ISBN 9781596439214 BCCB, HB, K,
PW, SLJ
•  Waiting. Kevin Henkes. Greenwillow, $17.99. ISBN 9780062368430 BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Walls Around Us, The. Nova Ren Suma. Algonquin, $17.95. ISBN 9781616203726 BCCB, BL,
HB, K, SLJ

Twinkle, Twinkle
FOUR STARS
•  8: An Animal Alphabet. Elisha Cooper. Scholastic/Orchard, $17.99. ISBN 9780545470834 BL,
K, PW, SLJ
•  All the Bright Places. Jennifer Niven. Knopf, $17.99. ISBN 9780385755887 BCCB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Blackthorn Key, The. Kevin Sands. S&S/Aladdin, $17.99. ISBN 9781481446518 BL, K, PW,
SLJ
•  Boats for Papa. Jessixa Bagley. Roaring Brook/Porter, $17.99. ISBN 9781626720398 BL, K,
PW, SLJ
•  Curious World of Calpurnia Tate, The. Jacqueline Kelly. Holt, $16.99. ISBN 9780805097443
BL, K, PW, SLJ
•  Dead I Know, The. Scot Gardner. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99. ISBN 9780544232747
BCCB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Death of the Hat, The: A Brief History of Poetry in 50 Objects. Paul B. Janeczko, illus. by
Chris Raschka. Candlewick, $17.99. ISBN 9780763669638 BL, K, PW, SLJ
•  Dream On, Amber. Emma Shevah, illus. by Helen Crawford-White. Sourcebooks Jabberwocky,
$12.99. ISBN 9781492622505 BL, K, PW, SLJ
•  Echo. Pam Muñoz Ryan. Scholastic Press, $19.99. ISBN 9780439874021 BCCB, K, PW, SLJ
•  Emperor of Any Place, The. Tim Wynne-Jones. Candlewick, $17.99.) ISBN 9780763669737
BL, K, PW, SLJ
•  Fatal Fever: Tracking Down Typhoid Mary. Gail Jarrow. Boyds Mills/Calkins Creek, $16.95.
ISBN 9781620915974 BL, K, PW, SLJ

Four Stars
Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods: 20 Chilling Tales from the Wilderness. Hal Johnson,
illus. by Tom Mead. Workman, $14.95. ISBN 9780761184614 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Finding Winnie: The True Story of the World’s Most Famous Bear. Lindsay Mattick, illus. by
Sophie Blackall. Little, Brown, $18. ISBN 9780316324908 BL, HB, PW, SLJ
Fine Dessert, A: Four Centuries, Four Families, One Delicious Treat. Emily Jenkins, illus. by
Sophie Blackall. Random House/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99. ISBN: 9780375868320 BCCB, BL, K,
SLJ
Firefly Hollow. Alison McGhee, illus. by Christopher Denise. S&S/Atheneum, $16.99. ISBN
9781442423367 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Funny Bones: Posada and His Day of the Dead Calaveras. Duncan Tonatiuh. Abrams, $18.95.
ISBN 9781419716478 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Game of Love and Death, The. Martha Brockenbrough. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99. ISBN
9780545668347 BCCB, BL, K, PW
George. Alex Gino. Scholastic Press, $16.99. ISBN 9780545812542 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Gone Crazy in Alabama. Rita Williams-Garcia. HarperCollins/Amistad, $16.99. ISBN
9780062215871 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Harriet the Invincible (Hamster Princess). Ursula Vernon. Dial, $12.99. ISBN 9780803739833 BL,
K, PW, SLJ
Hold Me Closer: The Tiny Cooper Story. David Levithan. Dutton, $17.99. ISBN 9780525428848
BCCB, BL, PW, SLJ
How to Swallow a Pig: Step-by-Step Advice from the Animal Kingdom. Steve Jenkins and Robin
Page, illus. by Steve Jenkins. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, $17.99. ISBN 9780544313651 BCCB, BL,
SLJ, PW

Still more at 4
I Crawl Through It. A.S. King. Little, Brown, $18. ISBN 9780316334099 BL, HB, PW, SLJ
Kissing in America. Margo Rabb. Harper, $17.99. ISBN 9780062322371 BCCB, BL, K, PW
Last Leaves Falling, The. Sarah Benwell. Simon & Schuster, $17.99. ISBN 9781481430654 BL,
HB, PW, SLJ
Leo: A Ghost Story. Mac Barnett, illus. by Christian Robinson. Chronicle, $16.99. ISBN
9781452131566 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Lillian’s Right to Vote: A Celebration of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Jonah Winter, illus. by
Shane W. Evans. Random House/Schwartz & Wade, $17.99. ISBN 9780385390286 BL, K, PW, SLJ
March: Book 2. John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, illus. by Nate Powell. Top Shelf, $19.95. ISBN:
9781603094009 BL, HB, K, SLJ
Marvels, The. Brian Selznick. Scholastic Press, $23.99. ISBN 9780545448680 BL, K, PW, SLJ
More Happy Than Not. Adam Silvera. Soho Teen, $18.99. ISBN 9781616955601 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Nest, The. Kenneth Oppel, illus. by Jon Klassen. Simon & Schuster, $16.99. ISBN 9781481432320
BL, HB, K, PW, SLJ
Night World, The. Mordicai Gerstein. Little, Brown, $18 ISBN 9780316188227 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Nimona. Noelle Stevenson. HarperTeen, hc $17.99. ISBN 9780062278234; pb $12.99. ISBN
9780062278227 BCCB, K, PW, SLJ
Nonsense Show, The. Eric Carle. Philomel, $18.99. ISBN 9780399176876 BL, HB, K, SLJ

Four!
Princess and the Pony, The. Kate Beaton. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99. ISBN 9780545637084 BL, K,
PW, SLJ
Razorhurst. Justine Larbalestier. Soho Teen, $18.99. ISBN 9781616955441 BCCB, K, PW, SLJ
Rest of Us Just Live Here, The. Patrick Ness. HarperTeen, $17.99. ISBN 9780062403162 BCCB,
BL, K, SLJ
Shadow Scale. Rachel Hartman. Random House, $18.99. ISBN 9780375866579 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Shadowshaper. Daniel Jose Older. Scholastic/Levine, $17.99. ISBN 9780545591614 BL, K, PW,
SLJ
Sidewalk Flowers. JonArno Lawson, illus. by Sydney Smith. Groundwood (PGW, dist.), $16.95.
ISBN 9781554984312 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda. Becky Albertalli. HarperCollins/Balzer + Bray, $17.99. ISBN
9780062348678 BCCB, BL, K, PW
Skunk, The. Mac Barnett, illus. by Patrick McDonnell. Roaring Brook, $17.99. ISBN 9781596439665
BCCB, HB, PW, SLJ
Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights. Ann Bausum. Viking, $16.99. ISBN
9780670016792 HB, K, PW, SLJ
Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. M.T.
Anderson. Candlewick, $25.99. ISBN 9780763668181 BCCB, BL, K, SLJ

Final Fours
Thing About Jellyfish, The. Ali Benjamin. Little, Brown, $17 ISBN 9780316380867 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Tommy: The Gun That Changed America. Karen Blumenthal. Roaring Brook, $19.99. ISBN
9781626720848 BL, K, PW, SLJ
Truth Commission, The. Susan Juby. Viking, $18.99. ISBN 9780451468772 HB, K, PW, SLJ
Voice of Freedom: Fannie Lou Hamer: The Spirit of the Civil Rights Movement. Carole Boston
Weatherford, illus. by Ekua Holmes. Candlewick, $17.99. ISBN 9780763665319 BL, HB, K, SLJ
Wolfie the Bunny. Ame Dyckman, illus. by Zachariah OHora. Little, Brown, $17. ISBN
9780316226141 BL, HB, PW, SLJ

Part of Teri’s reading family

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

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…

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

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.

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.”
64

–
What does the opening
sentence tell readers?
Ø  Setting
Ø  Main characters
Ø  Motif
Ø  Archetype
Ø  And…it’s going to be funny!
65
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

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.
68

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
84

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)

steps
•  Use F&Gs of picture books or purchase
old copies from library sales, etc.
•  Design a “poster” for the book using
illustrations and key words (one word,
phrase, key sentence, theme, etc.)

YOUR TURN
•  Select an F&G
•  Tear it apart
•  Rebuild it
•  Keep in mind
Ø Theme?
Ø Characters?
Ø Setting?
Ø Another literary element?

Educators as Models
Turn to your shoulder partner and
brainstorm ways we can
demonstrate our love of reading.

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

Literacy Lockers
http://yaloveblog.com/2013/03/24/
literacy-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/

Black out and Highlight Poetry
Using ARCs

NOW IT’S YOUR TURN
•  Take a page (or 2 or 3 or more) from one of the
ARCs
•  Create a highlighter poem
•  Or create a blackout poem
•  You may work alone
•  Or you may work in groups
•  Work quickly
•  Don’t overthink this
•  Be prepared to share

LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD AND
THE WOLF

Memories of read alouds?
Share with others
Report out

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

Alicia Martinez
•  Meta-analysis of all read aloud studies up to
1985
Ø 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/
importance?
gclid=CLem3Nvi-70CFQQT7Aodk34AcQ

http://www2.readaloud.org/
importance?
gclid=CLem3Nvi-70CFQQT7Aodk
34AcQ

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?

A LITTLE VARIATION:
AUDIOBOOKS

BEGIN A SHORT LESSON
AKA Teachable Moments

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.
223

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.
224

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?
225

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.

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

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