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Presenter: Frances Gabor, PhD ESOL Dept. Chair/Independent Studies Teacher New Dominion Alternative Center Enticing Reluctant Readers (Including ELLs) to Read
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Enticing Reluctant Readers (Including ELLs) to Read

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Presenter: Frances Gabor, PhDESOL Dept. Chair/Independent Studies Teacher

New Dominion Alternative Center

Enticing Reluctant Readers (Including ELLs)

to Read

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New Dominion Alternative CenterIndependent Studies:

DEAR:

Drop Everything And Read

Reader’s Notebook

Read Aloud

Literacy Activities

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How do you HOOK a reluctant reader?

TIMECONNECTION

CHOICEACCEPTANCE

CONVERSATION

SHARE

CHALLENGE

FUN

PERSONAL

ACCOUNTABILITY

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• INDIVIDULATI

PERSONAL

OWN IT!

CHOICE

Personal

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DEAR PROCEDURE

1. Sit down quietly at assigned seat

2. Take out your DEAR BOOK (If you do not have your DEAR book, get a magazine)

3. READ QUIETLY until directed to stop (about 10 min)

4. Record the page you are on in your READER’s NOTEBOOK: Reading Log

5. Wait quietly for day’s instructions

DEAR: Drop Everything And Read

TimeTime

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Time

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Acceptance

Individual

To improve reading = READ!

Background KnowledgeInterest

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LEXILE

LEVELS

Grade Reader Measures, Mid-Year

25th percentile to 75th percentile (IQR)

1 Up to 300L2 330L to 700L4 445L to 810L5 565L to 910L6 665L to 1000L7 735L to 1065L8 805L to 1100L9 855L to 1165L10 905L to 1195L11 and 12 940L to 1210L

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Acceptance

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Choice

Use www.lexile.com to find lexile of a book

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Share

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Conversation

“Special Time”

Personal

Share

Connection

Acceptance

Choice

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• Reader’s Notebook– Reading Log – Reading Conferences – Reading Response– Other: Mini Lessons, Vocabulary, etc.

• Two students want or read the same book

• Recommendations by others

• Immediate 10 min DEAR= prize for raffle (winter holiday)

• Banned Books challenge: “Can’t read”

Challenge & Accountability

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Other & FUN• Achieve3000

– At lexile level, search topics of choice– Non-fiction good for background knowledge (all students, ELLs especially)– Prizes, recognition and incentives (Achieve3000 badges, points, prizes; whole school announcements & prizes; classroom

recognition, points & grade)– All students required daily– Importance is amount and improvement ONLY

• Read Aloud – No Stress– Example of good reading, asking questions/clarifying information– Make it real- “See it”, “Hear it”, “Touch it”, “Taste it”, “Feel it”– Hunger Games (before movie): Action packed, fast moving, upcoming movie, connect with own life/history/politics/geography

• Had a lottery• Locate on a districts on a map• Make up, costumes, actors, “beauty/show” (make up, clothes, tatoos, money)• Reality shows (what’s real or for the audience?)• Video clips as they came out

– Before We Were Free: Geography, violent history, based on truth, Latino culture, Spanish language, video clips/historical research/food & drink, personal accounts• Researched and presented 1960 US and Dominican Republic culture, politics• Google earth• Trujillo and Mirabal Sisters• Drank Guava Juice• Learning Spanish vocabulary (cognates, prefix/suffix/Latin roots?• I lived there, my kids went to the school, my husband worked at the embassy; 3 students with DR family, 1/3 of population

Latino

• Independent Literacy Activities– Banned/Challenged Books-- September– Author Study-- Brochure– Book Share– ANY WAY! Game, Video, Art, Drama, Diorama

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References

• Thank you to Cedar Point E.S. for the template of their Reader’s Notebook from which this one was created

• Allison, Nancy. Middle School Readers: Helping Them Read Widely, Helping Them Read Well. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Print.