This document summarizes a presentation by Teri Lesesne and Donalyn Miller about promoting wild and naked reading. Their goals are to discuss wild readers, naked reading, and share book recommendations. They begin by introducing themselves and their reading histories. They discuss the importance of developing a positive reading identity and having a reading family. They explore what could motivate readers before and after reading, such as choosing their own books, comfortable reading spaces, and book fairs. The presentation emphasizes the importance of physical, intellectual, emotional, and moral access to reading materials. It also discusses personal responses to reading, sharing reading experiences, and providing guidance to help readers expand their horizons. Overall, the document promotes engaging readers by cultivating trust
14. Your Reading Autobiography
O So, what are the highlights of your reading
life?
O What are the low points?
O Titles, series, authors, books you recall
strongly?
15. Reading Identity
“While students acquire the skills of
reading, they must develop a positive
reading identity to remain readers.”
—Serafini, 2013
22. The research?
O Vickey Giles
O Karen Sue Gibson
O Replicated study from 20 years earlier
O The questions?
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23. What could someone do to
make you WANT to read
BEFORE/AFTER you read?
The converse: what could someone do to
make you HATE to read BEFORE/AFTER
you read?
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24. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-12
O Being allowed to choose any book you want to read
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29. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-5
O Reading in a comfortable place like on the floor, in a
bean bag chair, or in a rocking chair
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42. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-5
O Reading books for a contest
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43. Reading for Contest
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O Involves raising funds for charity
O Is optional for all students
O Not tied to a grade
O Social justice
44. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
O Having a classroom library
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45. Classroom Libraries
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O Mary Jett Simpson study reported that kids
were more likely to be engaged in books if they
were in the classroom even if the library was
across the hall.
O Eliminates excuses for not having a book to
read in hand.
O Models your thinking about the importance of
having books in the classroom.
46. Some Guidelines
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O Decide how to organize collections
O Make students the librarians
O Weed
O Develop the collection with current kids in
mind
47. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-12
O Having the teacher read a book or chapter a day
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51. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
O Having the teacher take you to the library
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52. Going to the Library
(going on a bear hunt)
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O Expectations
O Collaborate with the school librarian in
advance
O Circulate with kids and do random
booktalks
O Readers advisory
53. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
6-12
O Having the author come to the school
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56. Tips for author visits
O Work through publisher or agent
O Sometimes authors do this themselves
O Use a contract
O Follow the contract
O Piggyback on other appearance possibilities
O Provide books for those who cannot buy them
57. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
O Seeing the movie or television production of a book.
6-12
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68. Reading in the Wild: Learning from Lifelong
Readers
Donalyn Miller
69. “The single factor most strongly
associated with reading achievement—
more than socioeconomic status or any
instructional approach—is independent
reading.”
— Stephen Krashen, The Power of Reading
70. “Reading books is the only out-of-school
activity for 16-year-olds that is linked to getting
a managerial or professional job in later life.”
—University of Oxford, 2011
71. “Regular reading not only boosts the
likelihood of an individual's academic and
economic success -- facts that are not
especially surprising -- but it also seems to
awaken a person's social and civic sense.”
— “To Read or Not to Read,” NEA, 2007
72. Think about an avid reader who you know.
What characteristics does this person possess
that show he/she is a reader?
75. “ If you have never said, ‘Excuse me’ to
a parking meter or bashed your shins on
a fireplug, you are probably wasting too
much valuable reading time.”
~ Sherri Chasin Calvo
83. KIDS NEED TO TRUST
O That we are readers and writers as well
O That we take risks with our reading and
writing
O That we know something about good books
O That we are open to their recommendations
84. Teri
Reading May 16-23 Writing May 16-23
O THE JULIAN CHAPTER
O SEVEN STORIES UP
O THE UNDERTAKING OF LILY
CHEN
O GIRLS LIKE US
O SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS
AGENDA
O REVENGE OF THE FLOWER
GIRLS
O LOOKING FOR JACK KEROUAC
O LAUGHING AT NY NIGHTMARE
O THE RIVERMAN
O Daily book blog
O Daily professional
issues blog
O Drafted chapter on
Immersion
O #bproots
96. “Students should have guidance and frequent
opportunities to work with teachers and other students
as a community of learners, observing their teachers as
readers and writers.
—NCTE Position on the Teaching of English
Book Commer cials
97. Who is in your
reading
community?
Pr eview Stacks
105. Intellectual
O Not just levels and lexiles
O Level of abstraction required
O Literary elements such as flashback,
symbolism, foreshadowing
O Themes
106. She walked into my office on legs as
long as one of those long-legged birds
that you see in Florida - the pink
ones, not the white ones - except that
she was standing on both of them,
not just one of them, like those birds,
the pink ones, and she wasn't wearing
pink, but I knew right away that she
was trouble, which those birds
usually aren't.
107. Towards the dragon's lair the
fellowship marched -- a noble
human prince, a fair elf, a surly
dwarf, and a disheveled copyright
attorney who was frantically trying
to find a way to differentiate this
story from "Lord of the Rings."
108. On a fine summer morning during the days
of the Puritans, the prison door in the
small New England town of B----n opened
to release a convicted adulteress, the
Scarlet Letter A embroidered on her dress,
along with the Scarlet Letters B through J, a
veritable McGuffey's Reader of Scarlet
Letters, one for each little tyke waiting for
her at the gate.
141. “Children read more when they see other
people reading.”
--Stephen Krashen (2009)
142. “Reading Teacher (RT): a teacher who
reads and a reader who teaches”
Commeyras, Bisplinghoff and Olson
(2003)
143. 56% of unenthusiastic readers did not have a
teacher who shared a love of reading, while
64% of enthusiastic readers did have such a
teacher.
--Nathanson, Pruslow and Levitt (2008)
144. Teachers who regularly read for pleasure are
more likely to use recommended literacy
practices in their classrooms than those
teachers who do not engage in pleasure
reading.
145. They are more likely
to recognize that reading is a social activity
and to provide opportunity for students to
talk about their reading.
Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999);
McKool & Gespass (2009)
156. T is for Teen and
Tween Appeal
And Kid Appeal, too…
157. Factors
O Character about the same age or older as
the reader (note: this is not a hard and fast
rule Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and
adults who read YA)
O Character facing situation reader might
encounter (realistic even in fantasy and sci-
fi)
O Cover, length, first paragraph, action versus
telling
161. Teri’s 50 Favorites 2014
O A Snicker Of Magic
O Zombie Baseball Beatdown
O Wipeout Of The Wireless Weenies
O Comics Squad Recess
O Happy Birthday Babymouse
O Grandfather Gandhi
O Firefly In July
O Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy
O The Scar Boys
O Cosmobiography Of Sun Ra
162. Teri’s 50 Favorites 2014
O A Snicker Of Magic
O Zombie Baseball Beatdown
O Wipeout Of The Wireless Weenies
O Comics Squad Recess
O Happy Birthday Babymouse
O Grandfather Gandhi
O Firefly In July
O Ophelia And The Marvelous Boy
O The Scar Boys
O Cosmobiography Of Sun Ra
163. O Poisoned Apples
O Rules Of Summer
O The Great Greene Heist
O 5, 6, 7, Nate!
O The Question Of Miracles
O Vivian Apple At The End Of The World
O Cleopatra In Space
O The Julian Chapter
O Seven Stories Up
164. O Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car Poems
O Noggin
O The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives Of
Charlotte, Emily, And Anne
O The Pilot And The Little Prince
O Emily’s Blue Period
O Baby Bear
O No Monkeys, No Chocolate
O Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, And The
Pursuit Of Everything
165. O Shakespeare Star Wars
O Pete Seeger’s The Storm
O Grasshopper Jungle
O Weasels
O F This Test
O Lindbergh, The Tale Of A Flying Mouse
O The Scraps Book
O Princess Labelmaker
O Half A Chance
O There Was An Old Cowpoke Who Swallowed
An Ant
O Jacob's New Dress
166. O Alice From Dallas
O The Grudge Keeper
O President Taft Is Stuck In The Bath
O A Catfish Take
O Stone Soup With Matzoh Balls
BE SURE TO ADD SOME OF YOUR
OWN!
167. Donalyn’s Best of 2014 (so far)
O Slideshare lists and presentations
O #bookaday Twitter event
O Goodreads
O 2014 Nerdy Book Club Shortlist
168. “I have long been convinced that the central
and most important goal of reading instruction
is to foster a love of reading.”
–Linda Gambrell, “Creating Classroom Cultures that
Foster Reading Motivation”