irc2015 book love

Building Book Love in a Time of Common Core State Standards

Presented by Sarah Avallone, 7th Grade Teacher, Northbrook Jr. High

Mindi Rench, Literacy Coach, Northbrook Jr. HighFind this presentation online at http://slideshare.net/mindi_r

Who informs and inspires our thinking?

Penny KittleBook Love

Donalyn MillerThe Book Whisperer

Research/Info

“I’ve Got Research, Yes I Do” by Donalyn Miller http://bookwhisperer.com/2015/02/08/ive-got-research-yes-i-do-ive-got-research-how-about-you/

“Every Child, Every Day” by Richard Allington http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar12/vol69/num06/Every-Child,-Every-Day.aspx

“Leisure Reading: A Joint Statement” http://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/leisure-reading-position-statement.pdf

But what about CCSS??

There are 3 measures of text complexity, as defined in the CCSS, appendix A.

Reader and Task is the base of the triangle for a reason.

What About Rigor?

Rigor does not equal hard.Rigor is not the same for each child.The thinking we ask students to do about the books they read raises the rigor even of “below level books”.

Build Reading Stamina & Book Love

Choice

Time

Read Aloud

Reading Rate & Reflections

LRC Partnerships

Conferring

Advertise Books

Choice

Buy-in

Power

Motivation

Time

Class time needs to be structured in a way that supports, offers, and encourages time for independent reading

Reading Workshop structure:

focus lesson

group practice

independent time

reflection

Read Alouds

#classroombookaday

Reading Rates & Reflections

Individualized and book specific

Student and teachers notice rate changes/trends

Trimester reflections provide time for students to see their growth as readers.

What students say about reading rate goals:

“I know my target for the week.”

“It helps me keep up with my reading.”

“It makes me read way more than I usually would do.”

LRC Partnerships

Get your students to the library!

Our LRC Gets Big Business

Average monthly circulation last school year was 1300 books!

In September of this year, our library circulated over 1800 books.

Students can check out any book in the LRC.

Books Our Kids Love

So far this year:

Drama

The Fault in Our Stars

Sisters

Legend

Weird but True: Ripped From the Headlines

Last year:

Legend

A Long Walk to Water

The False Prince

Unstoppable

One for the Murphys

Conferring

Frequent check-ins

Individualized goals that are self-selected

Encouragement

Google doc reading logs and conferring tab for both participants

Advertise Books

You are the model and have to be a reader!

“What are you reading?” signs

Book talks: whole class, book trailers, individual book recommendations, and book stacks for students

Book passes - speed book dating

Display books with covers out in classroom libraries

But my district requires a basal. Now what?

You can still incorporate independent reading. Find time - even if it’s ten minutes - to give kids time to read books of their choice. Show kids how to find reading minutes - reading while waiting in lines or for assemblies to start. We’ve had kids read while walking from class to class!

Questions?

Contact us!

Sarah Avallone, 7th Grade LAsavallone@northbrook28.net

on Twitter: @savallone

Mindi Rench, Literacy Coachmrench@northbrook28.net

on Twitter: @mindi_r