HELP! THEY DON’T LIKE
TO READ!
What can I do to help?
What teachers think
What does NOT work?
What kids say
-Donalyn Miller
What does the research say?
0Vickey Giles
0Karen Sue Gibson
0Replicated study from 20 years earlier (Livaudais)
0The questions?
The Questions
0What could someone do to make you HATE to read BEFORE/AFTER you read?
0What could someone do to make you WANT to read BEFORE/AFTER you read?
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you read?
K-12
0Being allowed to choose any book you want to read
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?K-12
0Having a classroom library
High School with HANKINS
Why is this important?
What could someone do to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?K-12
0Having the teacher read a book or chapter a day
It takes minutes
What could someone do to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?K-12
0Having the teacher take you to the library
Why the library?
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?6-12
0Having the author come to the school
In person or via Skype
Father-Son effort
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?6-12
0Seeing the movie or television production of a book.
Compare books to movies
What could someone do to make you want to read
BEFORE you read?6-12
0Being allowed to read books with lots of pictures in them.
PSB for Older Readers
Tiny Lessons
Classics
Graphic Novels
T A R G E T
T is for TRUST
A is for ACCESS
Accessing Text
Accessing Archetypes
R is for RESPONSE
Response
All Kinds of Response
G is for GUIDANCE
Bridging between Books
Nonfiction Reading Ladder
HistoricalHorizontal
41
42
48
49
6 word memoirs
FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.
YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.
EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.
GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.
I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be Hank Green's memoir?)
WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.
YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.
MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.
LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.
INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE.
GN Reading Ladder
Growing more complex
52
Humor Reading Ladder
Developmentalphysicalcharactersituationlanguage
Form and Format Ladder
Genres
Categories
E is for ENTHUSIASM
T is for TWEEN and TEEN APPEAL
What are the current trends?
0Series (never seems to fade)
0Paranormal (though the “para” has shifted)
0Media tie-ins
0Post apocalyptic
Plus some wonderful authors
0 John Green0David Levithan0R.J. Palacio0Marcus Zusak0Stephen Chbosky0Sherman Alexie0 Jay Asher0Sharon Draper
Where is presentation?
www.slideshare.net/ProfessorNana