Building audience for my students as readers and writers.

1. Info you might need…
• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/katsok
• Twitter @katsok
• Blog: Read Write Reflect
http://readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com

2. Audience Matters - Katherine Sokolowski
#ReadingSummit

3. My favorite session ever…

4. Plan for today…
How I got here
Defining audience
Tools I use
Finding Our Voices

5. How I got here

8. What does an authentic audience for writing mean?

9. What does an authentic audience for reading mean?

10. Audience adds value.
- Katie Muhtaris and Kristin Ziemke

12. A note on digital citizenship,
or really, just citizenship.
Otherwise known as what to do when they
tweet the poop emoji…

13. What Makes an Audience?

14. Conferences

17. Book Talks

18. Studies confirm that
more access to
books and reading
material in general
results in more
independent self-
selected reading.
More independent
self-selected reading
results in more
literacy
development.
Krashen, S., Lee, SY, and McQuillan, J. 2010
School & Classroom Libraries

22. Kidblog
www.kidblog.org
$36 per teacher, per year
Audience (reading & writing) - World

24. Teaching the Art of Blogging
https://twowritingteachers.org
#sol17

25. Josh

26. Raegan

27. Max

29. Nerdy Book Club
https://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com
Free
Audience (reading & writing) - World

30. Nerdy Book Club -
Inspired by Kate Messner

33. Audience leads
to empowerment

34. Skype
http://skype.com
Free
Audience (reading & writing) - World

35. Skype ~ Possible Uses:
• Mystery Skype
• World Read Aloud Day
• Global Read Aloud
• March Book Madness
• Mock Caldecott
• Connect with an author
http://www.katemessner.com/authors
-who-skype-with-classes-book-clubs-
for-free/

39. Padlet
https://padlet.com
Free or $5 per teacher, per month.
Audience (reading & writing) - World

40. Padlet ~ Possible Uses:
• Book Log
• Research Curation
• Exit Slips
• Comprehension Checks
• Backchannel
***************
• Connecting Classrooms
• It’s Monday!
• Connecting outside of school

41. Padlet - Sister Classroom

42. Padlet - Reading Recommendations

44. Padlet – Classroom Community

46. Twitter
https://twitter.com
Free
My class account: @SagesHoots
Audience (reading & writing) - World

48. Twitter ~ Possible Uses:
• Tweet authors
• Share blogs
• Use hashtags -
• It’s Monday - #IMWAYR
• #readergrams
• #writergrams
• #gra17
• #sol17
• #2017MBM
• Connecting Classrooms
• Find experts

51. Kurt Stroh - @strohreads

52. Classroom Book a Day -#classroombookaday
Jillian Heise - @heisereads

53. March
Book
Madness
#2017MBM
Tony Keefer
@tonykeefer
Scott Jones
@escott818
http://marchbookmadness.weebly.com

54. Global Read Aloud #gra17
https://theglobalreadaloud.com
Pernille Ripp @pernilleripp

55. Instagram
Class account: SagesHoots
Free
Audience (reading & writing) - World

56. Using stories or the
regular feed,
share book talks
with the world.
#15secbooktalks
- Colby Sharp
@colbysharp

58. Flipgrid
https://info.flipgrid.com
Free (the version I use)
Audience (reading & writing) - World

61. Finding Our Voices

62. What is an audience?
World
City/ Town
School Community
Classroom Community
Conference
Self

63. Community Reads

65. The ultimate goal in this work in
creating audiences…

66. …is that by giving them an
audience…

67. …they gain confidence in
themselves…

68. …and begin to self identify as
readers and writers.

69. That our classroom is the safe
space…

70. …that allows them to figure out…

71. …how to navigate this world.

72. They just need to find their
voice.

73. Lost Forever
By: Joey
Today I lost a friend.
He was a hero,
a heart warming,
a goat.
Some people say
animals don’t have
a soul,
but I know they do.
His soul is flying,
flying in the sky,
free running around.
I hope God
takes care of him.
I lost a friend,
that left.
I yelled at him,
to come back.
He didn’t come.
The thing I have
in memory,
is fur.
A friend,
is a friend.
A human and a goat,
made no difference.
Beautiful possibilities…

74. Alison’s poem… He/Him
He/Him
Is what he wants to be.
He/Him is hard to be.
When there are people who don’t see.
It’s who he needs to be.
He tries to explain, but all he gets,
Are the echoing screams of disgust.
When we go to his house,
She/her is what we are forced to say.
I see the look in his dismal green eyes,
He is in pain.
He has such a kind heart,
A smart, sharp mind.
A smile that stretches longer than a mile.
I love him so much,
And he deserves all the love in the world.
It’s hard for him to keep that beautiful smile,
When all he wants in this entire world,
Is to be,
He/Him.

75. Our ultimate goal should be to create
independent readers, writers, and thinkers who
pick the level of audience needed when they
need it. To create students who know how to
navigate in this public space in the world and
feel confident enough to do so.

80. Info you might need…
• Slideshare: http://www.slideshare.net/katsok
• Twitter @katsok
• Blog: Read Write Reflect
http://readwriteandreflect.blogspot.com