October 30 presentation

1. DISCOVERING HOW TO
MOTIVATE STUDENTS TO READ

2. For Colorado Language Arts
Society Conference
October 2010

3. www.slideshare.net/professornana
http://professornana.livejournal.com

5. People are so desperate to raise test
scores that we could well end up with a
nation full of kids who can pass tests but
can neither read critically nor enjoy the
act of reading itself.
P. David Pearson
February 2003

6. A naked child
A drive with an author
Some great research findings
A late night inspiration

9. Vickey Giles, 2006
Karen Sue Gibson, 2003
Replicating Livaudais, 1982

10. What could someone do BEFORE you
read to make you WANT/HATE to
read?
What could someone do AFTER you
read to make you WANT/HATE to
read?

12. READ ALOUD IN EXCITING
VOICE
LISTEN TO AUDIOBOOKS

13. MEET THE AUTHOR “SPECIALIZE” IN AUTHOR

14. LET ME PICK ANY BOOK I
LIKE
USE READING LADDERS
TO HELP THEM DEVELOP

15. HAVE A CLASSROOM
LIBRARY
TAKE THEM TO THE
LIBRARY

16. SEE THE MOVIE BASED ON
THE BOOK
HAVE THEM CREATE BOOK
TRAILERS
Catching Fire Book
Trailers In Head-To-
Head Combat | YA
Book Shelf

17. READING BOOKS WITH
PICTURES IN THEM
STUDYING GNS AND
MANGA

18. T-A-R-G-E-T

19.  TRUST
 ACCESS
 RESPONSE
 GUIDANCE
 ENTHUSIASM
 TWEEN AND TEEN APPEAL

21. WE NEED TO BE THE EXPERTS
OR WE RUN THE RISK
OF PROGRAMS TAKING OVER

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23. Rank Boys Girls Both Level
1 WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY 5.2
2 WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY
3 WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY
4 HA TCHET
5.9
NUMBER
STARS
NUMBER
STARS
4.5
5 NUMBER
STARS
TWILIGHT
5.7
HATCHET
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24. RANK BOYS GIRLS BOTH LEVEL
1 WIMPY TWILIGHT WIMPY
2 WIMPY NEW MOON WIMPY
3 WIMPY ECLIPSE TWILIGHT
4 HATCHET WIMPY WIMPY
5 NUMBER
STARS
BREAKING
DAWN
HATCHET
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25. RANK BOYS GIRLS BOTH LEVEL
1 OUTSIDERS TWILIGHT TWILIGHT
2 WIMPY NEW MOON NEW MOON
3 WIMPY ELCIPSE ECLIPSE
4 GIVER BREAKING
DAWN
BREAKING
DAWN
5 TWILIGHT OUTSIDERS OUTSIDERS
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26. RANK BOYS GIRLS BOTH LEVEL
1 OUTSIDERS TWILIGHT TWILIGHT
2 GIVER NEW MOON NEW MOON
3 TWILIGHT ECLIPSE ECLIPSE
4 NEW MOON BREAKING
DAWN
BREAKING
DAWN
5 WIMPY OUTSIDERS OUTSIDERS
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28. HUMOR MYSTERY

29. NONFICTION NONFICTION

42. You have the right to read the last chapter
first.
You have the right to read the last chapter
first and then put the book back on the
shelf.

43. You have the right to ignore all critics.
You have the right to read the book spine of
the person sitting next to you, even on a
plane. And if you can't make it out, you
have the right to ASK.
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44. You have the right to stop reading a book
whenever you decide it's not worth the
effort, or that you simply don't like it.
You have the right to refuse to read any
book anyone else picks out for you. Even if
it's a birthday present.

45. When you find that you're dawdling on
your way back to a book, ditch it.
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46. You have the right to read a book and not
take a test or create a diorama or write a
report or do ANYthing.
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47. SpeakLoudly.org

48. To you zealots and bigots and false
patriots who live in fear of
discourse.
You screamers and banners and
burners
who would force books
off shelves in your brand name
of greater good.

49. You say you’re afraid for children,
innocents ripe for corruption
by perversion or sorcery on the
page.
But sticks and stones do break
bones, and ignorance is no armor.
You do not speak for me,
and will not deny my kids magic
in favor of miracles.

50. You say you’re afraid for America,
the red, white and blue corroded
by terrorists, socialists, the
sexually
confused. But we are a vast quilt
of patchwork cultures and multi-
gendered
identities. You cannot speak for
those
whose ancestors braved
different seas.

51. You say you’re afraid for God,
the living word eroded by
Muhammed
and Darwin and Magdalene.
But the omnipotent sculptor of
heaven
and earth designed intelligence.
Surely you dare not speak
for the father, who opens
his arms to all.

52. A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
Ideas are incombustible.
And therein lies your real fear.
— Ellen HopkinS,
bestselling author of
Crank , Fallen, Identical, and more