This document summarizes a workshop on reading motivation and instruction. The workshop covered topics like reading aloud, finding engaging books for students, and creating a reading community. Key points included that reading aloud is important for building reading skills, choosing books from authors that lead to more reading, and abandoning read alouds that are not engaging students. The workshop suggested having regular read aloud time, inviting student input, and modeling a love of reading to motivate students.

1. Reading for Real
Dr. Teri Lesesne
@professornana
Donalyn Miller
@donalynbooks
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2. Today’s Meet:
http://www.todaysmeet.com/SanA
ngelo

3. Slideshare
www.slideshare.net/professornana
www.slideshare.net/donalynm

4. Workshop Topics
• Reading Aloud
• Motivating Readers
• Finding the Right Books
• Creating Reading Communities
• Resources Online and Off
• New Books: Trends, Topics, Treats

6. Revving Up Read
Alouds
Donalyn Miller
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7. ―Reading aloud with children is known to
be the single most important activity for
building the knowledge and skills they will
eventually require for learning to read.‖
— Marilyn Jager Adams

8. What are your read aloud
memories?
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9. When do we stop reading
aloud to children? Why?
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10. Benefits of Read
Alouds
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11. Reading aloud builds
community.
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15. Reading aloud models
fluency.
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18. Reading aloud reveals how
writers
write.
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21. Reading aloud exposes
students to
books, genres, and authors.
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24. Reading aloud enhances the
curriculum.
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27. Reading aloud supports
developing
readers.
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30. Reading aloud sends a
pleasure
message about reading.
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33. Selecting Read
Alouds
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34. Dedicate regular time for read
alouds.
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35. Choose books from authors
who will
lead your students to more
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36. Five authors every child in
grade ___ should know are…
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37. Share a variety of texts
including
nonfiction, poetry, and drama.
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38. Wonderopolis

39. 6 Things You Should
Know

40. Consider time constraints and
book
length.
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44. Decide how students will view
illustrations.
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47. Read books that you enjoy.
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48. Abandon a read aloud if it is
not working with your
students.
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49. Reading Community
Suggestions
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50. Invite students to share their
favorite read alouds.
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51. Skype with an author.

52. Leave a different read aloud
when you have a substitute
teacher.
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54. World Read Aloud
Day

55. Ask students to select your
next read aloud.
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56. Post a list of the texts you
have shared.
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58. Ask students to sign one of
your read aloud selections for
the year.
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62. Spine Poetry
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63. Lemmings

64. Spine Poem Haiku

65. Writing

66. Issa’s Poem

67. Lauren’s Poem

68. Jewl’s Poem

69. We asked kids and some teachers.
Here are their answers.

71. What teachers think


72. What does NOT work?


73. Workshop Conditions and
Activities


74. Rigor, Complexity, Common Sense

76. Determining Complexity

Common Core Standards Process

77. Quantative

Quantitative measures stand as proxies
for semantic and syntactic complexity:
Word difficulty (frequency, length)
Sentence length and syntax
Some newer measures also measure
text cohesion and other features of
vocabulary

78. Translation

 ATOS - ATOS® (Renaissance Learning)
 DRP - Degrees of Reading Power ®(Questar)
 FK - Flesch Kincaid ®
 Lexile - Lexile Framework® (MetaMetrics)
 SR - Source Rater ©(Educational Testing Service)
 RM- Pearson Reading Maturity Metric© (Pearson
Education)

79. Problems with Quantitative
Analysis of Books

 Reading levels
 Syllables
 Sentences
 Lexile Levels
 Syllables
 Sentences
 Semantics
 Syntax
 All of these rate only how students perform on tests

80. Higher or Lower?


81. Guess Again!

4.8 790 4.0 680

82. Higher or Lower?


83. Hmmm….

5.7 920 5.7 960

84. Higher or Lower?


85. Guess again!

5.7 990 5.9 850

86. Higher or Lower


87. Guess again!

n/a 620 4.1 630

88. One More Time


89. Huh?

4.2 5.0

90. Qualitative Measures

Qualitative measures complement
quantitative measures:
Purpose
Language conventionality and clarity
Text structures
Knowledge demands

91. Translation
 Narrative structure

 Shifts in time (flashback and foreshadowing)
 Point of view (multiple narrators, unreliable narrator)
 Language
 Figurative devices
 Irony
 Parody
 Knowledge Demands
 Cultural
 intertextuality

92. Consider the qualitative
elements now

93. Higher or Lower?


94. Higher or Lower?


95. Higher or Lower?


96. Higher or Lower


97. One More Time


98. Finally
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Grade Levels RL Lexiles
2-3 2.7-5.1 420-820
4-5 4.9-7.1 740-1010
6-8 7.0-10.0 925-1185
9-10 9.7-12 1050-1335
11-12 11.0-14.0 1185-1385

99. Here are recommendations
from lexile.com

 Grades 2-3 Fiction
 Alabama Moon
 Cleopatra’s Moon
 Under the Baseball Moon
 NEW MOON
 Grades 4-5 Humor
 Jake Reinvented
 I Want to Grow Hair
 Hero by Perry Moore

100. Here are recommendations
from lexile.com

 Grades 6-8 Graphic Novels
 Sparky
 11 other titles, none familiar
 Grades 9-10 Mystery
 Koontz, Poe, Bunting
 Grades 11-12 Biography
 Pocohantas, Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Zane Grey

101. Using the resources we have at our fingertips
&
Not all these formulaic means

103. Conventional Wisdom

 Where do we go to get ideas about what to read?
 How can we narrow it down from the 7500+ books
published annually?
 How can we determine which books for which kids?
 How do we then provide proof of rigor?

104. Where to get
recommendations?

 Lists
 Awards lists
 Newbery
 Printz
 State reading lists
 Bluebonnet
 Lone Star
 TAYSHAS
 Maverick
 Starred Review lists
 Teens Top Ten

105. Awards


106. But also…

 BFYA
 QP
 Notables
 Orbis Pictus
 Sibert
 YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction
 Morris
 Great Graphic Novels for Teens
 Stonewall

107. State Lists
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108. State Lists
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109. State Lists
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110. State Lists


111. Starred Reviews
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 SIX STARS
 Code Name Verity. Elizabeth Wein.
 Fault in Our Stars, The. John Green.
 Z Is for Moose. Kelly Bingham, illus. by Paul O.
Zelinsky.
 FIVE STARS
 Green. Laura Vaccaro Seeger.

112. Seeing Stars

 FOUR STARS
 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole, A. Carolyn Cinami
DeCristofano, illus. by Michael Carroll
 Grave Mercy. Robin LaFevers
 THREE STARS
 Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip. Jordan
Sonnenblick
 Lions of Little Rock, The. Kristin Levine
 Wonder. R.J. Palacio

113. Teens Top Ten
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114. Why Reading Communities
Matter

115. Who is in
your
reading
community
?

117. Increase how much you read.

123. Foster connections with other
readers.

127. Challenge you to branch out.

131. 40 Book Requirement
Poetry (anthologies): 4 Informational: 4
Traditional Literature: 3 Biographies,
Realistic Fiction: 5
Autobiographies,
Historical Fiction: 4
Memoirs: 2
Fantasy: 4
Graphic Novels: 1
Science Fiction: 2
Chapter Book Free
Choice: 11

132. Improve your enjoyment and
appreciation of what you read.

133. Suggest titles for additional reading.

139. Encourage mindfulness about what you
read and share.

141. Inspire you to write.

143. Participate in personal reading
communities.

145. ―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

146. ―Reading Teacher (RT) a
teacher who reads and a
reader who teaches.‖
–Commeytas, Bisplinghoff, and Olson (2003)

147. 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)

148. Find reading
mentors.

149. Commit to
reading more.

150. Bring your
reading life into
the classroom.

153. online, offline, beyond the line

154. Resources

 Titletalk
 Blogs
 Twitter
 Facebook
 Web sites

155. Titletalk

 Last Sunday of the month
 7-8 PM CST

156. How to Join

 Use hashtag: #titletalk
 Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck
 Select "search" option using Titletalk
 Post using #titletalk
 Visit the archives (thanks Cindy!)

157. 
Blogs
 Great Resources for Finding Books

158. Best Blogs (IMHO)

 Reading Rants
 Richie's Picks
 SLJ
 Nerdy Book Club

159. Reading Rants

 http://www.readingrants.org/

160. Richie's Picks

 http://www.richiespicks.com

161. Fuse 8: SLJ Blog

 http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8product
ion/

162. Nerdy Book Club

 http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/

163. Twitter

 Are you one of our tweeps?

164. 
 @donalynbooks
 @professornana
 @catagator
 @colbysharp
 @mrschureads
 @paulwhankins
 @judyblume
 @kylenebeers
 @mindi_r
 @skajder

165. How to Build Your PLN

 start following one person
 see who they are including in tweets
 #FF

166. Facebook

 forums, pages

167. web sites and listservs

 treasure trove

168. The Hub

 http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub

169. Adbooks

 http://www.groups.yahoo.com.group/adbooks/

170. Middle School Lit

 http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_sch
ool_lit

171. Trends, Topics, Treats

172. Teri’s Picks

174. Nonfiction and Gory
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175. Illustrated Chapter Books


176. More GNs


177. Intensity Racheted Up
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178. Refuse Classification


179. Revisiting
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180. Bilingual Texts
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181. Series


182. Silly Parodies


183. Kleenex Books
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184. Poetry Parody


185. Adult Authors Reach Down


186. Revisiting


187. Series


188. Redefining format


189. Changing Genres


190. More History


191. Middle Grades


192. More in the middle


193. Novels in Verse
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194. Retellings
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195. GNs


196. GNs


197. Humor


198. Retellings


199. Novels in Verse


201. Picture Books and Graphic
novels
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215. poetry
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219. fiction
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234. Nonfiction
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239. “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”