1. Getting students Excited

2. Expanding the Literature
experience for students
Does it matter what books students’
read?

4. Is life long reading really a worthwhile
Instructional Goal? I am a good
reader but I’d
rather do
something else!
I am not a very I am a good
good reader. I reader and I am not a
hate reading ! I love very good
But then who reading! reader but
cares? I’d like to
be!

5. Did you know?
• Proficient readers read about a million words
a year. That is the equivalent of reading 25
average length novels a year
• The average student should be learning 3000
words a year. That is 7 to 10 new words a day.
• By the time students leave secondary school
they should have a vocabulary of between
25000 to 50000 words or more.

6. Textbooks ditched at Clearwater High as students
log on to Kindles
Rebecca Catalanello, Times staff Writer
In Print: Wednesday, June 2, 2010

8. The SLSS student as a Reader
Is disinterested in reading (mainly the boys)
Averse to reading (mainly the boys)
Avoids reading(mainly the boys)
Lacks proficiency in fluency, vocabulary, prosody
and comprehension (everyone)
Has little or no home support (everyone)

9. YOU may be all the SLSS student has

10. As a teacher personalize
the reading experience
in class.
Demonstrate the social
part of reading:
share with
your students
what you read and
your feelings
about different
books. Get other
students to do the same.
Make recommendations,
let them suggest reading
material not just books,
but magazines, comics,
etc, for each other to try.

11. Some Effective Techniques
Collaborative activities
 Challenging materials
 Projects that entail several class periods
Stressing links between literature and students’ lives
 Teaching comprehension strategies
 Techniques that facilitate comprehension
 Bibliotherapy
George Graham Lecture, 2008 Michael C. McKenna University of Virginia

12. Some More Effective Techniques
 Build on interests
 Include variety and choice
 Conduct read-alouds
Assess attitudes and interests.
 Focus on proficiency.
 “Sell” reading.
 Build an engaging classroom
George Graham Lecture, 2008 Michael C. McKenna University of Virginia

13. Beliefs about the
Outcomes of Reading
Is reading likely to be pleasurable or
useful?
Or is reading likely to be
boring, frustrating, even humiliating?
George Graham Lecture, 2008 Michael C. McKenna University of Virginia

14. Instruction that fosters positive
attitudes should
Provide successful and engaging
experiences with reading
 Strengthen beliefs that reading
will be pleasant
 Challenge beliefs about peer
expectations concerning reading
George Graham Lecture, 2008 Michael C. McKenna University of Virginia

15. Teaching Literature strategies
THE TEACHER LEADS THE WAY—FIND YOUR INNER READER
READ CHILDREN’S BOOKS AS AN ADULT
Teacher Resources Teacher Resources
• http://www.adlit.org/ • http://www.amazon.com/T
• http://www.readingrockets. he-Book-Whisperer-
org/ Awakening-
Reader/dp/0470372273
• http://www.scholastic.com/
readeveryday/read.htm
• http://www.walker.co.uk/Us
erFiles/file/Rights%20of%20
the%20reader/NYOR_ROTR.
pdf

16. One Size does not fit all
• Concept maps/wikis/blogs/drawings
• Literature webquests/Literature circles
• Book trailers/text to speech software
• Podcasts, movies and videocasts
• Digital story telling
• Drama/Reading Theatre/ Hot seat
• Games
• Online chat/skype the author

17. What’s Hot for vacation reading?
• http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?i
d=11000842

20. Sites for teenage literature
• http://www.guysread.com/
• http://www.scholastic.com/kids/stacks/books/?lnkid=stac
ks/nav/b_and_a/main
• http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/3931523-stace-
leza?shelf=%23ALL%23
• http://teenspace.cincinnatilibrary.org/books/booklist.asp?i
d=justlikeme
• http://dianebrowneblog.blogspot.com/
• http://summeredward.blogspot.com/p/caribbean-

21. More sites for teenage literature
• http://bookwizard.scholastic.com/tbw/homePage.do
• http://www.kidsreads.com/features/great-books-
boys.asp
• http://www.amazon.com/African-American-Teen-
Books-Right/lm/382WBQII9SLOU
•http://www.goodreads.com/search?q=african+ameri
can+teen+fiction&search%5Bsource%5D=goodreads&
search_type=books& tab=books
•http://www.adlit.org/books_authors/

22. More sites for teenage literature
Graphic Novels
•http://www.tkinter.smig.net/ClassicsIllustra
ted/index.htm

23. Finally can you make a difference?
• http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.ph
p?storyId=113357239