NCRA READING CONFERENCE SHARE

March 26 and April 30, 8:00-11:30

“BUILDING BRIDGES ACROSS THE CURRICULUM WITH PICTURE BOOKS AND

READ ALOUD” BY LESTER LAMINEK

• He wrote books on the Importance of Read Aloud• “Unwrapping the Read Aloud”, 6 times during the school day to use Read

Alouds and NOT take away from instructional time• Intention of all Read Alouds: To Inspire, To Invest, and To Instruct• To inspire: use seduction• To invest: to prepare students with prior knowledge for upcoming unit,

PICTURE BOOKS, even in high school!• To instruct: to teach something, keep a few picture books in reserve in

case a student doesn’t get it.• KWLs ---- not worth the time! Demo replacement activity for pre-reading!

“YOUNG ADULT LITERATURE SAVES LIVES” BY MADELEINE KUDERICK AND LINDA PHILLIPS

• Bibliotherapy: http://tinyurl.com/kmwpxj4

• 1 in 10 young adults experience a major period of depression

• 1 in 20 adults live with serious mental illness

• Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in US

• 90% of suicides result from some form of mental illness

• 60% do not get help and youth are least likely to get help

• “Kiss of Broken Glass” by Madeleine Kuderick

• “Crazy” by Linda Phillips

“THE WORLDLY READER” BY MICHELLE MILLS AND TOM HOUSE

http://goo.gl/YmmLOM

“CONNECTING THE WORLD THROUGH LITERACIES” BY MARNA WINTER AND

JOAN BARNATT

New Tech Tools Padlet: brainstorming tool where

students can post ideas. www.padlet.com Scribble Press: Imagine, Create, Publish

www.scribblepress.com Nearpod: create presentations by

pushing out content to multiple devices www.nearpod.com

Other Tech Tools• Plicklers: "Sheets of paper that work like

a set of classroom clickers with your smartphone.“

• www.epals.com• Article: “Beyond Pen Pals: Shared

Readings, Internet Tools, and Classrooms Overseas”. http://elon.edu/E-Net/Article/109830

IMPROVING WRITTEN COMPREHENSION SKILLS BY SONYA VANNOY

• Does written instruction improve written comprehension skills?• Article – “What Makes Writing Good?” The Reading Teacher, Volume 64, Issue 5,

pages 318–328, February 2011• Ideas: teach rubric to students, help students understand the audience of their

writing, teach stem vocabulary (chart), MODEL writing daily, organizational interventions (picture books), sentence fluency (slinky), word choice (stressed the use of the book).

• Interventions from “6 + 1 Traits of Writing Activity Book”; http://www.amazon.com/Traits-Writing-Complete-Guide-Grades/dp/0439280389

• TRC Progress Monitoring: students only read 1minute to 1.5 minutes, make up practice writing prompt from this portion of book;

• http://gtnpd143.ncdpi.wikispaces.net/About+the+Project

TWO GREAT SITES FOR YOUR CLASSROOM

•http://www.readworks.org/

•https://newsela.com/