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How to Be a
Reading Sta(a)r:
{ Crossing Genres with Books

 How do you find time to read?
 How do you decide what to read?

 How do you remember all the books you read?

 How can we share books with students?

 How can we show students how to connect books?

FAQs

 Average person can
read 300 words per  Average book is
minute 75,000 words
 In one week, that is
 Can read +20 books a
31,500 words year with only 15 minutes
a day
 In one year, it is
1,512,000 words  More than 1000 extra
books in a lifetime

Finding Time to Read

How do you decide
what to read?

{ Award Lists, Starred Reviews, Favorites

First, some new
books

{ May I have the envelope,
please?

Notables: Picture Books,
Fiction

Notables: Middle Grade
Fiction
grades 3-5

Notables: Middle Grade
Nonfiction

Notables: Older Grades
Nonfiction

Starred Reviews
{ Best of the best, according to some<

Favorites
{ LITERATURE. Literature, books

 Crossing genre boundaries
 Locating content area books

 Reading across texts

 Mentor texts for reading and
writing

Other Topics for Today

Crossing genre
boundaries

{ Redefining genres, forms, formats

 Start with Titlewave or Amazon searches
 Keep blog posts for reading and use tags

 Search other blogs

 Use Twitter and hashtags

 Work in teams

How to put more together

 Global warming
 Bullying

 Social justice

 Prejudice/racism

 Elections

Themes/Topics to Explore

Locating content area
materials

{ Science, math, social studies, art,
music, etc.

 Children’s Book Council
 Notable Trade Books in Science
 Notable Trade Books in Social Studies

 NCTE
 Notable Trade Books in Language Arts
 Orbis Pictus Award

 ALSC
 Sibert

 YALSA
 Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults

Some Resources

http://www.nsta.org/publications/ostb/

Notable Trade Books in Science

http://www.socialstudies.org/notable

Notable Trade Books in
Social Studies

http://www.childrensliteratureassembly.org/notables.
html

Notable Trade Books in LA

http://www.ncte.org/awards/orbispictus

Orbis Pictus

http://www.ala.org/alsc/awardsgrants/bookmedia/sibertmedal

Sibert Award

http://www.ala.org/yalsa/nonfiction

Excellence in Nonfiction

Reading across texts
{ Making connections

Mentor texts

{ For reading and writing

Interrogating Texts:

{ 6 Reading Habits to Develop
in Your First Year at Harvard

1. Previewing:
Look “around” the text before you start reading.

• Prefatory material

• Text layout

• Flap summary

• Blurbs on back cover

• TOC if present

• Chapter titles

Papa was a rolling stone
The future’s so bright, I gotta wear
shades
Ballroom blitz
Live and let die
Hold em closer, Necromancer

Chapter Titles

{ Text arrangement
{ Knowledge of Author

{ layout
{ conventions

2. Annotating:
“Dialogue” with yourself,
the author, and the issues and ideas at stake

• Annotating using post-it notes

• Annotating using e-readers

• Annotating using symbols

• Annotating using summary words

• Annotating using questions

Annotating using post-it notes

Highlight
Make notes

Look up words

Annotating using e-readers

 Develop symbol list with students

 C-character
 T-theme

 ???

Annotating using symbols

 Pausing to write one word summary of the chapter

 Pausing to write down two adjectives describing
reader’s emotions

 Pausing to write three gerunds about events from
chapter

 Pausing to write four word phrase central to events of
chapter

 One word summary, synonym

Annotating using summary words

 Key Questions

 What would happen if the main character were of the
opposite sex?
 Where is the story set?

 What does the title tell you about the book? Does it tell

the truth?
 Would you film this in B&W or color and why?

 If you had to design a new cover, what would it look
like?

Annotating using questions

3. Outline, summarize, analyze.

• Take information apart

• Examine the parts

• Reassemble in own words

Six Word
Memoirs Become
{
Six Word Teaser Book Reports

Mystery
Fantasy
Werewolf
Love
School
Fights

From Mr. See’s class @
Book’gosh

4. Look for repetitions and patterns:

•Recurring images

•Repeated words, phrases, types of examples, or
illustrations

•Consistent ways of characterizing people, events, or
issues

Consistency: characters,
events

{ Recurring words,
phrases { Recurring images

Examples from YA

{ repetition
{ repetition

Application

5. Contextualize:
After you’ve finished reading,
put the reading in perspective.

One word: milieu

{ Milieu OF the text
{ Transaction with Text

Some Examples from New
Books

{ Poetic bio
{ Feminist bio

Putting it in context

6. Compare and Contrast:
Fit this text into an ongoing dialogue

• Connections

• Responses

• Ranking/rating

Now we are back to
reading ladders

{
Providing some
guidance for readers

 Select theme or topic
 Search Titlewave and Amazon for titles

 Arrange titles from simplest to most complex

 Provide choices on each rung

 Allow students to add to the ladder titles

Constructing Ladders

 determine the meaning of
grade-level academic English
words derived from Latin,
Greek, or other linguistic
roots and affixes

Addressing TEKS

 infer the implicit theme of a
work of fiction,
distinguishing theme from
the topic

Addressing TEKS

 compare and contrast the historical and
cultural settings of two literary works

Addressing TEKS

{ Anti-Semitism
{ Holocaust

Comparing settings

{ Biography
{ Contemporary Fiction

Twain then and now

{ Biography
{ Fantasy

A Dickens of a Tale or Two

 Reading/Comprehension of Literary
Text/Poetry. Students understand, make
inferences and draw conclusions about the
structure and elements of poetry and provide
evidence from text to support their
understanding. Students are expected to
explain how figurative language (e.g.,
personification, metaphors, similes, hyperbole)
contributes to the meaning of a poem.

Addressing TEKS

http://poetryforchildren.
blogspot.com/

Poetry Resources

 summarize the elements of plot development
(e.g., rising action, turning point, climax, falling
action, denouement) in various works of fiction;

Addressing TEKS

 interpret factual, quantitative, or technical
information presented in maps, charts,
illustrations, graphs, timelines, tables, and
diagrams

Addressing TEKS

 recognize how various techniques
influence viewers' emotions;

Visual/Media Literacy

From the limbs of ancient live oaks moccasins hung
like fat black sausages -- which are sometimes
called boudin noir, black pudding or blood pudding,
though why anyone would refer to a sausage as
pudding is hard to understand and it is even more
difficult to divine why a person would knowingly
eat something made from dried blood in the first
place -- but be that as it may, our tale is of voodoo
and foul murder, not disgusting food.

Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: 2011 Results

Wearily approaching the murder scene of
Jeannie and Quentin Rose and needing to
determine if this was the handiwork of the
Scented Strangler--who had a twisted
affinity for spraying his victims with his
signature raspberry cologne--or that of a
copycat, burnt-out insomniac detective
Sonny Kirkland was sure of one thing: he’d
have to stop and smell the Roses.

Within the smoking ruins of Keister
Castle, Princess Gwendolyn stared in
horror at the limp form of the loyal
Centaur who died defending her
very honor; “You may force me to
wed,” she cried at the leering and
victorious Goblin King, “but you’ll
never be half the man he was.”

As his small boat scudded
before a brisk breeze under a
sapphire sky dappled with
cerulean clouds with indigo
bases, through cobalt seas that
deepened to navy nearer the
boat and faded to azure at the
horizon, Ian was at a loss as to
why he felt blue.

WINNER
Cheryl’s mind turned like the
vanes of a wind-powered turbine,
chopping her sparrow-like
thoughts into bloody pieces that
fell onto a growing pile of
forgotten memories.

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