Motivating Readers In and Out of the Classroom

1. Motivating Readers In & Out of
the Classroom
BJ Neary- reader, reviewer,
teacher, collaborator,
networker

2. Motivating Readers In The Classroom –
Librarian
• Love Students – constantly
read to entice students to
fall in love with reading
• Love all genres
• Booktalks :
-Short (lose kids with long
book talks)
-Many, varied titles
-Student Choice

3. Librarians Build Reading Relationships
With Teachers & Students
• Lead by example- inspire
and encourage to ignite a
passion for reading
• YOU are the lead reader in
your classroom and should
leverage every
opportunity to share YOUR
love of reading whenever
possible with your students

4. Give Kids Time & Choices
• I follow Donalyn Miller –
Reader, teacher, author,
blogger
• The Book Whisperer
• Reading in the Wild
• Five Teaching Tips for
Helping Students Become
‘Wild Readers’
• Video – Why Students Don’t
Read What Is Assigned in Class

5. Collaborator
• Reading
• English
• Social Studies
• ESL
• Special Ed
Share with teachers: talk,
email, links, ideas, ed tech
resources – the more
comfortable they felt…

6. Reading Classes
• 3 Classes
• Students explore genres:
Realistic Fiction
Nonfiction
Historical Fiction
Multicultural Fiction
Mystery

7. Student Created Digital Book Trailers
• Using Animoto* or
PhotoStory
• Load onto Library Catalog
Search- Digital Book
Trailers – Keyword
• Thirteen Reasons Why
• Stacie & Cole
• Snitch
*Teaching Literacy in the Digital Age. Edited
by Mark Gura, 2014.

8. English
• World Literature-
• Book Tasting – Award
Winners
• Japanese Internment-
Glogster
• World War II Literature
Circles - blogging

9. Social Studies
• World Civilization
(Holocaust, Middle
East)Book Tasting Blog on
Edmodo
• American History – M.
Lindinger we attended 2
Edcamps and presented
how we worked together
using technology

10. ESL
• Photostory – public speaking
• Read a book – Animoto,
Wordle
• Research using databases;
Investigating a crime - Prezi

11. Special Ed
• High interest books –
Orca, Bluford
• Novels in Verse- Crank
• Series- Hazelwood High,
Urban Underground
• Romance- Baby, Played
• Urban Fiction- Tyrell
• Nonfiction

12. Popular Contemporary Lit
• Genres
• Award Winners
• Supernatural
• Dystopian
• Fantasy
• Novels in Verse
• Mrs. Neary’s Pearls

13. Reading Projects
• Use Ed Tech Resources -
assessment and
comprehension
-PhotoStory
-Animoto
-Glogster
-Prezi
-Wordle
-Symbaloo

14. Networker
• Technology Club
• Faculty Book Club
• ISTE – Literacy & Librarian
• PSLA – Read & Review
Books
Free Books for library
collections - $2,000/yr

15. As a Teacher…
• I Share what I know
• I Learn as much as I can
• I Build relationships
• I Know being a good
teacher demands
continual ongoing
investment in my personal
learning

16. Ravenous Reviewer
• Goodreads – bjneary
• TLNing
• Neary Notes
• NetGalley
• Scoop.it – Young Adult
Novels (curation article)
• FB - bjneary
• Pinterest – Books Worth
Reading & YA Lit
• Twitter - @bjneary

17. Reading Blogs
• Nerdy Book Club
• YALSA The Hub
• Rich in Color
• Jennifer Hubert – Reading Rants
• Naomi Bates – YA Books & More
• Booklist
• School Library Journal
• Book Riot
• Author Blogs
• Cybils Awards- bloggers literary
awards

18. Technology Blogs
• Langwitches – Annotated
Circle Share out of Book
Reading
• Buffy Hamilton – Writing
Around Literature Motifs,
-Tools of the Trade,
-Processing Texts, Ideas

19. Professional Development
• BER YA Lit – annual
conference
• EdWeb.net – free online PD
• School Library Journal- free
online webinars
• Booklist – free online
webinars

20. Book Challenges
• The 2015 Hub Reading
Challenge
• The Nerdy Book Challenge
• Battle of the Books- begins
in March (SLJ)

21. Webinars- All Free
• TLNing- Ditching Dewey: Genrifying
Your Library
• Booklist- Reluctant Reader
Resources
• SLJ – A Conversation with the 2015
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction
Finalists
• EdWeb.net- Communities

22. Retired- what’s it look like?
Still building a community of readers

23. • Grandchildren- story time, 1000
books by Kindergarten, build libraries
• Teachers - Daughter & Daughter-
in-law- build classroom libraries
• ME – reading & reviewing
-Blogs– multicultural, death, suicide,
dystopian, series
-Challenges – Nerdy/YALSA Hub
-Curate – Scoop.it
-Goodreads – Groups/moderate
-TLNing – post webinars
-ISTE – monthly TwitterChats/
conference June 2015