This document provides an agenda and notes for a literacy education workshop. The agenda includes discussing questions from the previous day, using picture books as mentor texts, exploring blackout and highlight poetry techniques, remixing texts, exploring apps for literacy education, building professional learning networks via social media, and wrapping up. The notes provide additional details about using picture books to teach skills and genres, examining text structures, developing empathy and other literary elements, and exploring various apps and social media platforms for professional collaboration and outreach.
2. Our Agenda
● Discuss questions from yesterday
● Using Picture Books
● Blackout and Highlight Poetry (Steal like
an artist, Austin Kleon)
● Remixing
● APPS
● PLNs via social networks
● Wrap Up
3. Student book talks?
Sources for booklists?
Narrative nonfiction?
Choice/differentiation
Stamina
Read aloud selections
Hi-Low Books--Orca and Lerner
Abandoning books
Advanced searches using Titlewave/Amazon
Units--ladders
Questions? Some answers.
43. So how can we use PB biographies?
• As model for report writing
• As model for narrative versus expository text differences
• As model for handling “difficult” events in lives of the famous
• As model for teaching about AUDIENCE
• What else?
50. 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.” 50
51. What does the opening sentence
tell readers?
➢ Setting
➢ Main characters
➢ Motif
➢ Archetype
➢ And…it’s going to be funny!
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Plus it addresses this CCSS (anch
Write narratives to develop real or
and well-structured event sequenc
52. ccssCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.1
Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to
make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence
when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from
the text.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.2
Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their
development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.3
Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and
interact over the course of a text.
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53. ccssCCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.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.
CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.CCRA.R.6
Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style
of a text.
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56. Celebrating Cultures
Through extensive reading
of stories, dramas, poems,
and myths from diverse
cultures and different time
periods, students gain
literary and cultural
knowledge as well as
familiarity with various text
structures and elements.
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84. Page taken from
ZOMBIE BLONES
by Brain James.
Used Post-it tape to
cover chosen words
and then used paint
over the paper.
When dried, peeled
off Post-it tape to
reveal poem.
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89. NOW IT’S YOUR TURN
• Take a page (or 2 or 3 or more) from one of the ARCs
• Create a highlighter poem
• Or create a blackout poem
• You may work alone
• Or you may work in groups
• Work quickly
• Don’t overthink this
• Be prepared to share
90. And now for REMIXING...
• Use F&Gs to create new interpretations of
the stories.
• You can focus the remix: character, theme,
setting, etc.
• Also helps kids learn summaries
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95. Sketchnoting
Follow Karin’s Sketchnoting on her Tumblr at:
http://karinlibrariansketchnotes.tumblr.com
Even Kathy Schrock talks about it.
http://www.schrockguide.net/sketchnoting.html
96. Why Sketchnote?
We are incredible at remembering
pictures. Hear a piece of information,
and three days later you'll remember
10% of it. Add a picture and you'll
remember 65%.
- Brain Rules by John Medina
107. Looking for Volunteers
If you have your students create Sketchnotes
based on children’s/tween/YA literature,
please send them to me. I’m collecting
examples to use for a project.
kperry@shsu.edu
109. Your Turn
Think of a book you know well. It can be any
level, personal or professional, anything
goes.
Brainstorm some ideas you can use as visual
reminders about the book.
Draw two or three images on a piece of paper
along with the title and author of the book.
115. Being• Is it a tool or a toy?
• Could it be replaced by a worksheet?
• Does it add to both enjoyment and education?
• Will it work in individual, group, and whole class settings?
• What is the cost (including in-app)?
150. 71% of teens use more than one
social network site
Teens are diversifying their
social network site use. A
majority of teens — 71% —
report using more than one
social network site out of the
seven platform options they
were asked about. Among the
22% of teens who only use one
site, 66% use Facebook, 13% use
Google+, 13% use Instagram and
3% use Snapchat.
154. Great how-to post for beginning snappers.
http://mashable.com/2014/08/04/snapchat-for-beginners/
Great video explaining how to do a Snapchat contest.
https://vimeo.com/84663955
Great post explaining exactly how to run a Snapchat contest.
https://librarianenumerations.wordpress.com/2014/06/12/how-to-create-a-snapchat-
contest/
How-To-Use Snapchat Video
https://youtu.be/TMxTyFjEus4
Snapchat
155. Snapchat Continued
Snapchat in the Media Center
http://yalsa.ala.org/blog/2015/03/03/snapchat-in-the-media-
center/
Lindsay Cummings
lindsaycwrites
157. ∗ Strongest growth in any social network
surpassing Pinterest, Reddit, and LinkedIn
∗ Used by 2 X as many women as men
∗ 25-55 year olds is largest demographic
∗ “poor man’s social network”
∗ 60% of all users have some college education
∗ Use has doubled in the past 12 months
∗ MediaBistro, August 2012
Some Tweet Facts
159. Here is what Twitter says
about online PD/community
All you need to do is ask…
160. Following @donalynbooks would net you
hundreds of others to follow, connect you to
#nerdybookclub and #titlechat and get links to
@educationweek and other blogs
161. Connecting with @readingjunkee gets
connections to @yalsa, nets more people to
follow in the library field, and will also shake out
book titles as must reads.
162. @utalaniz is the queen of RTs. If you miss
something, she will catch it for you. Interesting
links in her posts.
163. ∗ Decreased funding for PD
∗ Distance to events
∗ Time away from work
∗ Can meet like-minded individuals
∗ Makes connections across country and world
Why Twitter?
164. And here is @FrankiSibberson asking us what
we are reading on Mondays. Another
community!
165. And here is Sara’s tweet about Banned Books
Week so we can see what her students do
every day to celebrate the Freadom to Read.
166. Other communities
∗ Librarians
∗ Teachers
∗ University folks
∗ Organizations
∗ Authors
∗ Publishers
Resources Available on Twitter
168. Assignment for my YA Literature Classes
Follow
∗ one literacy organization
∗ one YA author
∗ one teacher
∗ one librarian
∗ one professor
My Approach
174. ∗ Last Sunday of every month
∗ 7-8 PM CST
∗ Hosted by @donalynbooks and @colbysharp
∗ Topic announced in advance
∗ Open to all
∗ Chat is always archived
Titletalk
175. ∗ Link accounts as much as you can
∗ Download apps such as Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to help
handle the reading load and postings
∗ You can also use sites like TweetGrid or Twubs to help you
manage chats.
∗ Set aside regular time to read and respond to tweets
∗ Be careful of the time suck element
Some final advice