This document provides a summary of 10 toolkits for teaching adolescent literacy. The toolkits are designed to help engage teen readers and develop reading skills. The first toolkit involves using interest inventories to find material that connects to students' interests. Other toolkits involve catalog searching, previewing books in the library, scavenger hunts, book talks, read-alouds, tracking books read, and using children's books to inspire writing. Research discussed suggests reading skills decline in adolescence but are important for life success, and the toolkits aim to reverse this trend by making reading fun and relevant for teens.
Presenters: Karen Doster-Greenleaf
Presented at the Georgia Libraries Conference in Macon, GA on 10/11/2019.
Have you ever thought about the questions you ask students during an instruction session? Do they require the students to think critically or are they asking students to recall information covered just seconds ago? Using Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
designed questions can help to more accurately assess the level of students understanding of concepts covered in library instruction classes. This presentation highlights the different levels of the DOK framework, how to incorporate the outcome-oriented question design process into lesson plan development, and provide a comparison of using DOK questions in the classroom versus previous teaching experiences.
A synthesis of many practices in education including interactive, responsive, and critical perspectives as well as the importance of the Literacy Matrix.
The advent of modern technology and a fundamental shift in young people's cognition has created an environment where multi-tasking and instant gratification have become the norm. This session looks at how literacy and writing skills fit into the 21st Century English classroom and how to make these essential skills engaging, meaningful, and fun.
Free seminar for English teachers in BKC-IH Moscow Teacher Training Centre
Presenters: Karen Doster-Greenleaf
Presented at the Georgia Libraries Conference in Macon, GA on 10/11/2019.
Have you ever thought about the questions you ask students during an instruction session? Do they require the students to think critically or are they asking students to recall information covered just seconds ago? Using Depth of Knowledge (DOK)
designed questions can help to more accurately assess the level of students understanding of concepts covered in library instruction classes. This presentation highlights the different levels of the DOK framework, how to incorporate the outcome-oriented question design process into lesson plan development, and provide a comparison of using DOK questions in the classroom versus previous teaching experiences.
A synthesis of many practices in education including interactive, responsive, and critical perspectives as well as the importance of the Literacy Matrix.
The advent of modern technology and a fundamental shift in young people's cognition has created an environment where multi-tasking and instant gratification have become the norm. This session looks at how literacy and writing skills fit into the 21st Century English classroom and how to make these essential skills engaging, meaningful, and fun.
Free seminar for English teachers in BKC-IH Moscow Teacher Training Centre
Adolescent Literacy Intervention Programs, Dr. Patricia Fioriello DRPF Consults
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From School library to learning centre to… What are the challenges in the fut...Slamit
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Did Socrates get it wrong? Making Connections through Student Questioninglori_donovan
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
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2. Why is Adolescent Literacy Important?
• “Learning to read and reading to learn
are no longer seen solely as traditional
academic processes. To fully prepare students
for life now and in the future, educators need
to ask different questions:
– What will students need to know in order to
participate more fully in a technological world?
– To act as productive citizens?
– To become critical users of information? And
– To live high quality personal lives?”1
3. Reading is a SKILL
• National Center for Educational Statistics
(1997) “states that reading attitudes deteriorate
and voluntary reading drops as students
progress through school.”
• Students haven’t been taught to value books.
• Most students don’t describe themselves as
readers at all, let alone readers for life. 2
4. Reading Research
There is a co–relation between high youth literacy rates
and low crime rates, low unemployment and
dependence on social welfare, and low health care
expenditures. Similarly, high levels of adult literacy
are associated with higher levels of employment and
wages, lifelong learning activities, participation in
society, and level of health. A strong correlation has
even been found between literacy levels and the
likelihood of time spent in prison (National
Endowment for the Arts, 2007). 3
5. In other words….
•We need to teach
reading!
• These strategies offered here to help you with that.
6. Toolkit #1- Interest Inventory
• Allows you to see where their
interests lie and find reading
material that connects to that
child.
• Two types
–Teacher created
–Student self-assessments
7. Reading and Research Correlation
Sociological research of the digital divide has
suggested online research skills are often not well
developed among people who are online
(Hargittai, 2002). When it comes to university
students, especially beginning undergraduates,
they are typically content to make do with
simplistic “good enough” information search
strategies — ease of access to information often
continues to be more important than the
accuracy of that information (Currie, et al., 2010;
De Rosa, et al., 2006; Nicholas, et al., 2009;
Weiler, 2005). 3
8. Toolkit #2- Catalog Searching in the Library
• Collaborative lesson with
school librarian
Search strategies using OPAC
Practice search activity
Independent search activities
Self- Assessment4
9. Toolkit #3 – Shopping List
Collaborative Lesson with School Librarian.
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Shopping List sheet
School Librarian will pull books from all genres and reading levels
Reading Teacher and Librarian will model Previewing Books
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Dedication
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Back Jacket
Chapter Titles
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Students fill out Shopping List
10. Toolkit #4 – Library Scavenger Hunt
Collaborative lesson with School
Librarian
• After completing the library catalog search activity and
shopping list, students are ready to explore the physical
plant that is the library.
• Students will complete a scavenger hunt to find books to
check out and create their Someday List.
• Self-assessment4
12. Toolkit #5- Someday List/Recommendation
Lists
• Through the Shopping List and
Scavenger Hunt, students can create
a Someday List of books they might
want to check out.
• Book talks, read-ins, think-pair-share
activities allow students to share
ideas and books in a safe
environment.
• This can be done in the classroom
and/or library.
14. Toolkit #6- Read-ins
Directions for read-in:
1.Select a book to read
2.Read for 5 minutes
3.Write on an index card something
new and interesting you read about.
4.Share something you learned from
the resource with others
5.Begin again with a new book
15. Toolkit #7- Book Talks
What is a book talk? Any
discussion held about a book. For
example, a teacher or librarian
who is trying to encourage others
to read a certain book.
Example of a student book talk.
Book talk rubric
16. Toolkit #8- Read Alouds
This isn’t your grandmother’s read aloud!!!
Interactive Read Aloud:
Demonstrate your thinking out loud.
Model specific reading strategies.
Promote rich oral language and content area vocabulary.
17. Toolkit #9-Most Read Books Binder
We call it our Check It Out Binder!
Students record a rating and several comments
about a recently completed book.
Students use the book to help them find something
they might want to read.
18. Toolkit #10- Using Children’s Books to Inspire
Writing
1. Choose a story that relates to a topic of studyeither as an introduction or review.
2. Set the students up with an anticipatory set to
lead into the reading of the book
3. Read the book aloud to students
4. Introduce the writing assignment.
5. Resources for lessons:
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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE OPENS DOORS TO MATHEMATICS
Steven Layne’s site
US History and Children's Literature
Specific Novel & Picture Book Activities
19. Bibliography
1. Ivey, Gay, and Douglas Fisher. Creating Literacy-rich Schools for
Adolescents. Alexandria, VA: Association for Supervision and
Curriculum Development, 2006. Print.
2. Layne, Steven L. Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful
Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers. Portland, ME:
Stenhouse, 2009. Print.
3. Cull, Barry. "Reading Revolutions: Online Digital Texts and
Implications for Reading in Academe." First Monday.
University of Illinois at Chicago, 6 June 2011. Web. 13 June
2011.
<http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/f
m/article/view/3340/2985>.
4. Harada, Violet H., and Joan M. Yoshina. Assessing for Learning:
Librarians and Teachers as Partners. 2nd Revised ed. Santa
Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited, 2010. Print.
20. Thank you!
Jan Collins, Reading Specialist and Lori Donovan, NBCT School
Librarian
Thomas Dale High School
Chesterfield County Public Schools
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Steve Layne- by modeling and discussing with students how books are marketed by publishers and how I shop for books, I am actually teaching the, a life skill that can serve them well as consumers in both libraries and book stores.