3.
The Research Base
Donalyn Miller
Richard Allington
Becoming a Nation of Readers
NCTE and IRA Joint Statement on what adolescent
deserve
ASCD
Yankelovich
Penny Little
Kelly Gallagher
Community in the Classroom
6.
Teacher as reader
Access to books (literally and then on higher level)
Choice
Opportunities to talk about books and reading
Time to read
Building Community
11.
Beyond book reports and dioramas
Peck’s Questions
Student as Leader of Discussion: DIR (Terry Ley)
Book Talk/Conferring
12.
Finding the Time
Edge time (Donalyn
Miller) Fringe Time (me)
Priority time
Class time
12
13.
Edge Time
Reading on the fringes
Appointments
Bathroom books
Car
Purse or bookbag
Phone books
eBooks and audiobooks
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14.
Priority Time
If it is not a priority for us, how can we
expect it to be a priority for them?
Take a moment to jot down one time you will
set aside daily (just 5 minutes) to read.
Make this commitment real by adding it to
your calendar.
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16.
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
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19.
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations
with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and
persuasively.
2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats,
including visually, quantitatively, and
orally.
3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can
follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are
appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.
5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express
information and enhance understanding of presentations.
6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating
command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
How does community assist
us with CCSS?
21. 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.”
22.
What does the opening
sentence tell readers?
Setting
Main characters
Motif
Archetype
And…it’s going to be
funny!
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
24. You’re surprised at all the blood.
He looks at you, eyes wide, mouth dropping
Open, his face almost as white as his shirt.
He’s surprised, too.
There’s not a lot of broken glass, though, just some
tiny slivers around his feet and one big piece
busted into sharp peaks like a spiking line graph,
the blood washing down it like rain on a
windshield.
25.
In two paragraphs, what do
we learn?
Simile and metaphor
Strong verbs
Use of second person
How details contribute
to overall effect
CCSS Anchor Standards for
Reading:
4. Interpret words and phrases as they are
used in a text, including determining
technical, connotative, and figurative
meanings, and analyze how specific word
choices shape meaning or tone.
5. Analyze the structure of texts, including
how specific sentences, paragraphs, and
larger portions of the text
(e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza)
relate to each other and the whole.
6. Assess how point of view or purpose
shapes the content and style of a text.
26.
Closes achievement gap since students can generally
listen above their reading comprehension level.
Offers model of fluency and prosody.
Serves to assist with listening and speaking elements
of CCSS.
Motivates K-12 to read and read more. (research)
Why read aloud?
27.
Offering choices
Ensuring that choices reflect developmental
needs of kids
Books as mirrors
Books as windows
Widening the curriculum
to narrow the gap
28.
Extensive vs. Intensive
Extensive
Central text
Shorter selections to
accompany central text
Different genres, forms,
and formats
CCSS calls this model
framework
Intensive
(not to be confused with
close reading)
Focus on one text
Dissect it
29.
Kids read more
Kids performed as well on tests at the end of the unit
of study
Kids’ attitudes toward books and reading was
higher
Research covers 1940s forward
Extensive research
31.
Add to Core Text
Informational
Advances in cancer
treatment
Cancer in teens
Side effects of cancer
treatments
Self help groups
Biographies of reclusive
authors
Literary
Catcher in the Rye
“Death Be not Proud”
(poem)
Other Printz award
winners
Short story collections
with YA authors
And now the MOVIE!
32.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and
media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.*
8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text,
including the validity of the reasoning as well as
the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in
order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors
take.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity
10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts
independently and proficiently.
How this aligns to CCSS
33.
Note on range and content of student reading
To become college and career ready, students must grapple with works of exceptional craft
and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Such works offer
profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students’ own thinking
and writing.
Through wide and deep reading of literature and literary nonfiction of steadily increasing
sophistication, students gain a reservoir of literary and cultural knowledge, references,
and images; the ability to evaluate intricate arguments; and the capacity to surmount the
challenges posed by complex texts.
CCSS
34.
Quantitative Measures
Lexile
Reading level(s)
Qualitative Measures
Levels of Meaning
Narrative structure
Language Conventionality and Clarity
Knowledge Demands
What qualities are essential?
35.
Reading levels
Syllables
Sentences
Lexile Levels
Syllables
Sentences
Semantics
Syntax
All of these rate only how students perform on tests
Problems with Quantitative
Analysis of Books
47. Narrative structure
Shifts in time (flashback and foreshadowing)
Point of view (multiple narrators, unreliable narrator)
Language
Figurative devices
Irony
Parody
Knowledge Demands
Cultural
intertextuality
Translation
48.
Personal/Emotive
What is your gut reaction to the text?
Interpretive
If you were one of the characters, what would you
have done differently?
Critical
How does the author demonstrate her or his craft?
Evaluative
What makes this a “good” or “bad” book?
Levels of Response
49. Using the resources we have at our fingertips
&
Not all these formulaic means
50.
51.
Where do we go to get ideas about what to read?
How can we narrow it down from the 7500+ books
published annually?
How can we determine which books for which kids?
How do we then provide proof of rigor?
Conventional Wisdom
52.
Lists
Awards lists
Newbery
Printz
Starred Review lists
Teens Top Ten
Where to get
recommendations?
53.
BFYA
QP
Notables
Orbis Pictus
Sibert
YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction
Morris
Great Graphic Novels for Teens
Stonewall
But also…
54.
Narrative Structure
Simple vs. complex
Explicit vs. implicit
Chronological vs. non-linear
Qualitative