New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the Classroom

Linda Leonard Lamme

University of Florida

Reading Research Support:Factors that Influence School

Success• Reading at home • Reading trade books• Bridging the gap between home and

school• Time spent reading• Book Access• Book quality• Opportunities for reader response

Louise RosenblattTransactional Theory

• Aesthetic Reading Creates readers Is enjoyable Needs book choice

• Efferent Reading Learning information

• Reading Response

The Roles of Children’s Books in Reading Instruction

• AestheticReading at homeReading at school for pleasure

• USSR - silent reading time• Reading workshop

• EfferentInformation for content areas

NOT for Reading Instruction

• Makes reading books efferent

• Negatively impacts enjoyment

Two Forms of Oral Reading

• Lap ReadingDemonstrates how print worksFacilitates learning how to read

• Reading AloudDemonstrates enthusiasm for readingCreates a literate classroom communityDemonstrates fluent reading

Lap Reading

• Buddy reading

• Volunteer reading

• Reading at home

Reading Aloud Daily• 180 Days, 180 Good Books• All genres for literary exposure• Award-winning books

Rich languageExcellent artAccurate informationAuthentic stories

• DON’T read aloud what kids will read on their own

When Reading AloudRead and Talk about

• The title pagethe title, author, and illustratorthe publisher

• The verso pagedate of publicationthe illustration mediathe dedication

• Author and Illustrator notes• Endpapers

Home Reading

• Why? Avid readers read at home

• Books go home every night K-2

• Novels and Nonfiction 3-8Read every nightNew books every week (or day)

• Reader response in classroom

Book Access

• All students need access to books• School library media center: liberal policy

on checkouts• Classroom nightly checkout• Book clubs?

Quality of booksFunds for books

Book Publishing is Political• Baker and Taylor required?• Which publishers produce mostly

High quality literature?Multicultural literature by minority

authors?Junk? Junk literature is like junk food

• It rots the mind• It panders the emotions• It misinforms

Authentic Literature• Is the author of the culture in the book• Is the author writing about personal

experiences?• Is the topic well-researched with sources

identified?• Did the illustrator conduct research?• Clues

• Dedications• Author notes

American Indian Books

• ResourcesOyate.orgDoris Seale & Beverly Slapin

• A Broken Flute• Through Indian Eyes

• Offensive TopicsThanksgivingWestward Movement

Good Native Books

• Louise Erdrich: Birchbark House (Thorndike)

• Joseph Bruchac: Winter People (Dial)• Cynthia Leitich Smith: Jingle Dancer

(Morrow)

Designated Months

• Hispanic Heritage Month? NO!

• Black History Month? NO!

• Share these authors all year long!

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Pura Belpre Narrative

Vola Vanales: Tequila Worm (Wendy Lamb)

Carmen T. Bernier-Grand: Cesar. Si, Se Puede! Ill. David Diaz. (Marshall Cavendish)

Pam Munoz Ryan: Becoming Naomi

Leon (Scholastic)

• Pat Mora: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart

(Alfred Knopf)

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are needed to see this picture.Pura Belprefor Illustration• Lulu Delacre: Arrorro Mi Nino: Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games (Lee & Low)

Rafael Lopez: My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz (bilingual, Rising Moon)

David Diaz: Cesar: Si, Se Puede (Marshall Cavendish)

African American Coretta Scott King: Writing

Toni Morrison:

Remember

(Houghton

Mifflin)

Shiela Moses:

The Legend of Buddy Bush

(Margaret K. McElderry)

Sharon Flake: Who Am I without Him? (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

Marilyn Nelson: Fortune’s Bones

(Front Street)

Coretta Scott King IllustrationKadir Nelson

Ellington

was Not a Street

by Ntozake Shage

(Simon & Schuster)

Jerry Pinkney, God Bless the Child using the words of Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. (Armistad)

Leo and Diane Dillon, The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred K. Knopf)

Sydney Taylor Awardfor Jewish Content

• Erica Silverman for Sholom’s Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux

• Borden, Louise for The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey. Ill. Allan Drummond

International LiteratureBatchelder Award

Arthur A. Levine for An Innocent Soldier by Jusef Holub (German)

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• Phaidon Press for Nicholas by Reney Goscinny, Ill. Jean-Jacque Dempe (French)

• Bloomsbury for When I Was a Soldier

by Valerie Zenatti (French)

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Richard Jackson for Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (German)

Walter Lorraine Books

for Run, Boy, Run

by Uri Olev (Hebrew)

Notable Books for a Global SocietyChildren’s Literature and Reading SIG of IRA

Published in Dragon Lode

Double Crossing by Eve Tal (Cinco Puntos)

Kamishibai Man by Allen Say(Houghton Mifflin)

Mama Panya’s Pancakes by Mary and Rich Chamberlin, Ill. Julia Cairns (Barefoot Books)

(Houghton Mifflin)

I’ll Plant You a Lilac Tree

by Laura Hillman (Atheneum)

Hidden Child

by Isaac Melman (Farrar, Straus &

Giroux)

A Negro League Scrapbook by

Carole Boston Weatherford

(Boyds Mills Press)

Sawdust Carpets Amelia Lau Carling(Groundwood)

The School Is Not White Doreen Rappaport

Ill Curtis James (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

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IBBY Hans Christian Anderson Award

• Outstanding AuthorsMargaret MahyKatharine PatersonVirginia Hamilton

• Outstanding IllustratorsAnthony BrowneQuentin Blake

Giverny AwardScience and Illustration

Daniel

and His Walking Stick

by Wendy McCormick

Ill. Constance R. Bergum

(Peachtree)

Squirrel and John Muir

by Emily Arnold McCully

(Farrar Straus & Giroux)

Givery Award Science and Illustration

ALSC Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Medal

Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (Carolrhoda)

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Hitler Youth:

Growing Up

in Hitler’s Shadow

by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

(Scholastic)

ALSC Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Medal

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NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books

• The Tarantula Scientist Sy Montgomery Ill. Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin)

• I See a Kookaburra! Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. (Houghton Mifflin)

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NCSS Notable Trade Books for Young People

• A Woman for President by Kathleen Krull. Ill. By Jane Dyer (Walker)

• Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam Ear Orphan became an American Boy by Andrea Warren, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

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Caldecott• Chris Raschka for

The Hello Goodbye Window by Norton Jester (Hyperion)

• Bryan Collier for Rosa

by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt)• Jon Muth for Zen Shorts (Scholastic)• Marjorie Priceman for Hot Air: The Story of the

First Hot Air Balloon (Atheneum)• Beckie Prange for Song of the Water Boatman by

Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin)

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Newbery Medal• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae

Perkins (Greenwillow)• Whittington by Alan Armstrong

Ill. By S. D. Schindler (Random House)

• Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)

• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson Ill by Hudson Talbot (Dial)

Many Awards

• Orbus Pictus Award from NCTE

• Children’s Choices from IRA

• Teachers’ Choices from NCTE

• New Author Award from IRA

• Notable Books for Language Arts from NCTE

• Many others

Literature is NOT a TextbookSo Don’t

• Test children about what they read

• Read just parts of books

• Read books without illustrations intact

• Require all children to read the same book

Instead

• Give students opportunities to share books

• Discuss favorite AuthorsIllustratorsGenrePublishers

Books with Excellent Writing

• Newbery Award Winners• Coretta Scott King Award for Writing• Pura Belpre Award for Writing• Notable Books in Language Arts

AuthorsPat Mora Pam Munoz RyanJulia Alvarez Angela JohnsonGary Soto E. L. KonigsburgKate DiCamillo Christopher Paul CurtisKevin Henkes Jerry SpinelliKaren Hesse Patricia Reilly GiffLinda Sue Park AviKaren Cushman Louis SacharMarilyn Nelson Lois Lowry

Illustrators

• E. B. Lewis Kadir Nelson• Christopher Myers Bryan Pinkney• Leo and Diane Dillon Jerry Pinkney• R. Gregory Christie Yuyi Morales• Susan Guevera Joe Cepeda• Enrique O. Sanchez Mo Willems• David Weisner David Small• Sims Tabak Molly Bang

Genre

• Fantasy

• Folk Literature

• Informational Books (nonfiction)

• Historical fiction

• Poetry

• Realistic Fiction

Invite students to

• Write like their favorite authors

• Draw like their favorite illustrators

• Share what they learn from their favorite informational books

• Read poetry from their favorite poets

• Become a literature community

• Celebrate books, authors, and illustrators

Publishers to Note• Atheneum

• Armistad

• Barefoot Books

• Bloomsbury

Publishers to Note• Boyds Mills Press

• Carolrhoda

• Cinco Puntos

• Marshall Cavendish

Publishers to Note• Children’s Book Press

• Dial

• Greenwillow

• Groundwood

Publishers to Note• Farrar Straus &

Giroux

• Front Street

• Henry Holt

• Houghton Mifflin

Publishers to Note• Richard Jackson

• Jump at the Sun/Hyperion

• Alfred Knopf

• Wendy Lamb

Publishers to Note• Lee and Low

• Arthur Levine

• Walter Lorraine

• Morrow

Publishers to Note• Peachtree

• Phaidon

• Random House

• Rising Moon (bilingual books)

Publishers to Note• Scholastic

• Simon and Schuster

• Thorndike

Proactive Teachers

• Seek out books from minority presses• Immerse students in the best, most recently

published literature• Find funding sources for large classroom

libraries and home reading programs• Provide students with a comprehensive

array of multicultural, thought-provoking literature

Proactive Teachers

• Refrain from testing students on books• Study writers, artists, and publishers of books• Provide award lists to public libraries to aid in

book selection and purchase• Provide award lists to school library media center

librarians for book selection and purchase• Pressure book clubs to increase their collection of

award-winning books from more than just Caldecott and Newbery awards