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Wild Naked Reading
Teri Lesesne and Donalyn Miller
June 2014
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Our Goals
O Talk about WILD readers
O Talk about NAKED reading
O Share some terrific books along the way
But first…
Who are we?
Our reading identities
Teri’s Childhood
Donalyn: The Early Years
Terrible Tween Teri
Donalyn In-Between
Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens
The YA-YA Years: Donalyn
Teri’s Split Personality
Torn Between Two Covers: Donalyn
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?
Reading Identity
“While students acquire the
skills of reading, they must
develop a positive reading
identity to remain readers.”
—Serafini, 2013
Who is in your Reading Family?
Teri’s Reading Family
My own family, too
Donalyn’s Reading Family
Donalyn’s family, too.
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Origin of Title
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The research?O Vickey Giles
O Karen Sue Gibson
O Replicated study from 20 years earlier
O The questions?
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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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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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Science and Math
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Dystopias
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Funny Books
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Picture books(with some BIG ideas)
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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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Who reads sitting UP?
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This is reading, too!
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Can you read with messy desk?
And sometimes with Post-it notes nearby…
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What could someone do to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?K-5
O Being allowed to buy your own book through a book fair.
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Best Sellers YA
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YA
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Best Sellers MG
MG
Picture Books
Picture Books
Picture Books
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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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Reading for ContestO Involves raising funds for charity
O Is optional for all students
O Not tied to a grade
O Social justice
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What could someone do to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?K-12
O Having a classroom library
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Classroom LibrariesO 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.
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Some GuidelinesO Decide how to organize collections
O Make students the librarians
O Weed
O Develop the collection with current kids in mind
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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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Read Alouds
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Include NF
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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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Going to the Library (going on a bear hunt)
O Expectations
O Collaborate with the school librarian in advance
O Circulate with kids and do random booktalks
O Readers advisory
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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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Real people write books(and they are alive, too!)
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Know thy authors!
Tips for author visitsO Work through publisher or agent
O Sometimes authors do this themselves
O Use a contractO Follow the contract
O Piggyback on other appearance possibilities
O Provide books for those who cannot buy them
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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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Book & Movie
Book & Movie
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What could someone do to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?6-12
O Being allowed to read books with lots of pictures in them.
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NF/GN
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GN
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Deep Reading
Reading in the Wild: Learning from Lifelong Readers
Donalyn Miller
“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
“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
“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
Think about an avid reader who you
know.
What characteristics does this person
possess that show he/she is a reader?
Wild Readers…
dedicate time for reading
“ 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
Provide independent reading time in
class.
Read in the "edges."
Naked Truth #1
T is for TRUST
KIDS NEED TO TRUSTO 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
TeriReading May 16-
23 Writing May 16-23 O THE JULIAN CHAPTERO SEVEN STORIES UPO THE UNDERTAKING OF LILY
CHENO GIRLS LIKE USO SIMON VS. THE HOMO
SAPIENS AGENDAO REVENGE OF THE FLOWER
GIRLSO LOOKING FOR JACK
KEROUACO LAUGHING AT NY
NIGHTMAREO THE RIVERMAN
O Daily book blogO Daily
professional issues blog
O Drafted chapter on Immersion
O #bproots
Tween Reads
For Older Teens
Strange New Worlds
Taking Reading Risks
Risky Reading
Knowing the good books
Good books
Letting kids lead
successfully self-select
books
Create opportunities for students to preview, share, and talk about
books.
Create opportunities for students to preview, share, and talk about
books.
“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
Who is in your reading community?
To-Read lists Preview Stacks
Read Alouds
Five authors every child in
grade _________
should know.
Naked Truth #2
A is for ACCESS
AccessO Physical
O Intellectual
O Moral
O Emotional
Empty shelves?
For five minutes!
PHYSICAL ACCESSO At home
O In the classroom
O In the school library
O At hand
IntellectualO Not just levels and lexiles
O Level of abstraction required
O Literary elements such as flashback, symbolism, foreshadowing
O Themes
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.
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."
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.
MoralO Kohlberg
O Preconventional
O Conventional
O Post-conventional
EmotionalO EQ
O Maturity
O Reponse
O Triggers
plan for future reading
Our Reading Plansoreading time
ofinishing a book
ospecific titles, series, genres, authors
osome day plans
Naked Truth #3R is for
RESPONSE
RESPONSE Is…O Personal/Emotive
O Associative/Interpretive
O Critical/Close
O Evaluative/Judgment
exhibit reading preferences
Read deeply from one author or genre.
Read books across a range of difficulty.
Prefer fiction to nonfiction and vice versa.
Follow series.
Read graphic novels, magazines, and Internet content.
Reread favorite books.
Naked Truth #4G is for
GUIDANCE
Moving from book to book
O LADDERS
O Sideways
O Diagonal
O Step stools
O extensions
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for instance…
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Building, moving, growing
Picture book ladder
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Or…
Family reading ladder
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share books and reading with
other readers
“Children read more when they see
other people reading.”
--Stephen Krashen (2009)
“Reading Teacher (RT): a teacher
who reads and a reader who
teaches”
Commeyras, Bisplinghoff and
Olson (2003)
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)
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.
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)
Find an epicenter reader.
Epicenter Readers
• John Schumacher (@mrschureads)–Watch. Connect. Read. blog– Goodreads– Instagram– Twitter
• Karin Perry (@karinlibrarian)– Karin’s Book Nook– Goodreads– Instagram– Facebook– Twitter
Epicenter Readers in Our Classrooms
Commit to reading more.
Bring your reading life into the classroom.
Every reader has value and a voice in our community.
Naked Truth #5E is for
ENGAGEMENT
A Manifesto…
Heinemann, 2015
T is for Teen and Tween Appeal
And Kid Appeal, too…
FactorsO 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
Kid Appeal
Tween Appeal
Teen Appeal
Teri’s 50 Favorites 2014
O A Snicker Of MagicO Zombie Baseball BeatdownO Wipeout Of The Wireless WeeniesO Comics Squad RecessO Happy Birthday BabymouseO Grandfather GandhiO Firefly In JulyO Ophelia And The Marvelous BoyO The Scar BoysO Cosmobiography Of Sun Ra
Teri’s 50 Favorites 2014
O A Snicker Of MagicO Zombie Baseball BeatdownO Wipeout Of The Wireless WeeniesO Comics Squad RecessO Happy Birthday BabymouseO Grandfather GandhiO Firefly In JulyO Ophelia And The Marvelous BoyO The Scar BoysO Cosmobiography Of Sun Ra
O Poisoned ApplesO Rules Of SummerO The Great Greene HeistO 5, 6, 7, Nate!O The Question Of MiraclesO Vivian Apple At The End Of The
WorldO Cleopatra In SpaceO The Julian ChapterO Seven Stories Up
O Poem-mobiles: Crazy Car PoemsO NogginO The Bronte Sisters: The Brief Lives
Of Charlotte, Emily, And AnneO The Pilot And The Little PrinceO Emily’s Blue PeriodO Baby BearO No Monkeys, No ChocolateO Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty, And
The Pursuit Of Everything
O Shakespeare Star WarsO Pete Seeger’s The StormO Grasshopper JungleO WeaselsO F This TestO Lindbergh, The Tale Of A Flying MouseO The Scraps BookO Princess LabelmakerO Half A ChanceO There Was An Old Cowpoke Who Swallowed
An AntO Jacob's New Dress
O Alice From DallasO The Grudge KeeperO President Taft Is Stuck In The BathO A Catfish TakeO Stone Soup With Matzoh Balls
BE SURE TO ADD SOME OF YOUR OWN!
Donalyn’s Best of 2014 (so far)
O Slideshare lists and presentations
O #bookaday Twitter event
O GoodreadsO 2014 Nerdy Book Club Shortlist
“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”