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Supporting Your MS and HS Student as a Reader and Writer
- 1. Supporting Readers and Writers at Home Stevi Quate
- 2. What’s your story as a reader?
- 3. Were you… A dormant reader? An uncommitted reader? An unmotivated reader?
- 4. What about your student? A dormant reader? An uncommitted reader? An unmotivated reader?
- 6. Reading skills correspond to: Success in college An informed citizen Effective communication A high salary Success in one’s career Success as a writer
- 7. Students ready for college: Like to read. Have read some good books as well as important books. Read for pleasure. --Patrick Sullivan
- 8. College Professor’s Advice: So what am I recommending? I recommend that you start to find a way right now to enjoy reading and to make it an important part of your life. A great deal of research has been done on the importance of free choice in building engagement with reading, so choosing what you are interested in is a great way to start. You can read whatever books or articles you want.
- 9. So what can parents do?
- 11. READING VOLUME The more you read, the better you read. The better you read, the more you comprehend. The more you comprehend, the higher the achievement. The volume of reading helps students build important world knowledge and acquire additional vocabulary….
- 12. Reading and Vocabulary Amount of reading Numbe r of days reading Number of words encountere d Number of unfamiliar words encountered Annual gain in vocabular y 25 minute s a day 200 1,000,000 words 15,000- 30,000 700- 1500 words
- 15. Let them have choice
- 16. Share your reading life
- 17. Give books as gifts
- 18. Don’t worry about the reading level
- 19. Teen (and pre-teen) readers read easy “stuff” and tough “stuff” – just like adults.
- 20. Talk to them about their books
- 21. Beware of fake reading
- 23. Dormant Readers
- 24. Uncommitted Readers: • Series • Graphic novels • Young Adult Lit • Books made into movies
- 25. Unmotivated readers Share your reading process: how you make sense of tough text Activate their background knowledge: what do they already know about the topic? The type of text? Help them set a purpose for reading Encourage them to chunk the text
- 26. Online Sources
- 31. But what does it mean to read?
- 34. Reading… Making meaning Being an active reader Using comprehension strategies Solving problems Moving beyond word calling
- 35. What about writing? Ways to support your students as budding writers
- 37. Tips for Responding Remember that writing is a process. Keep in mind that too many novice writers stop too early in their process. Respond first as a reader. Resist editing too soon.
- 38. Writing as a process Fluency Order Craft Correctnes s
- 39. Fluency Help them grow their ideas What’s your purpose for writing this? Who is your audience? Tell me more…. Something I’m curious about is…
- 40. Order Think of organization as interior decorating Encourage the writer to talk about his/her decisions about arranging the ideas Wonder out loud what other options might work for arranging ideas.
- 41. Craft Point to sentences, phrases, or words that struck you. Talk about the impact they had on you as a reader. Notice and praise risk taking. Look at writers your student enjoys. Notice the craft moves. Comment on specific writing that you enjoy. Point out the craft.
- 42. Correctness Don’t correct but show your confusion: I’m confused here because… Point to places where the errors get in your way of understanding ideas. And…
- 43. Be playful Let’s eat grandpa. Let’s eat, grandpa. Punctuation saves lives.
- 47. The child hears: oh, you think I’m brilliant and talented. That’s why you admire me – that’s why you value me. I better not do anything that will disprove this evaluation. As a result, they enter a fixed mindset, they play safe in the future, and they limit growth. Carol Dweck
- 48. If parents want to give their children a gift, the best thing they can do is to teach their children to love challenges, be intrigued by mistakes, enjoy effort, and keep on learning. That way, their children don’t have to be slaves of praise. They will have a lifelong way to build and repair their own confidence. – Carol Dweck
Editor's Notes
- Uncommitted: reading isn’t done for pleasure; it’s a chore; boring Unmotivated: skills aren’t up to the task
- Uncommitted: reading isn’t done for pleasure; it’s a chore; boring Unmotivated: skills aren’t up to the task
- An open letter to 9th graders; Patrick Sullivan, editor of What is College Level Writing
- Model your reading life and read with them
- Think of Connor: vacations, trips, spare time
- Includes reviews by students, book lists, interviews with authors
- Read, determine what it means, compare your meaning to your neighbor’s
- Reading is about meaning making, and to do so we use metacognitive strategies: activating and building background knowledge, monitoring for meaning, asking questions, using mental models/sensory images, drawing inferences, determining importance, synthesizing.