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Using Literature across the Curriculum in Grades 7-12
Friday, June 3, 2016
Beth MaddiganEducation Librarianbeth.maddigan@mun.ca
Education Library& Commons
Reading in Junior High & High School
• Think back to your own time in school
• Start in Grade 12 and work your way back through each grade
• Change your card to green when you have an activity/event in mind
Memorable books & reading engagement activities
Reading ResearchYou’ve come a long way, Baby!1970s & 1980s “good” literature & text analysis (theme, setting, plot and characters)1997 Reading the Covers off Nancy Drew 2000PISA study2011Howard (Dalhousie University)
ChoiceRoss, C. (1997). Reading the covers off Nancy Drew: What readers say about series books. Emergency Librarian, 24(5), 19.
Reading engagement trumps socioeconomic status http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/programmeforinternationalstudentassessmentpisa/33690904.pdf
Self identification/construction/awarenessDalhousie University – Dr. Vivian HowardHoward, Vivian. (2011). The Importance of Pleasure Reading in the Lives of Young Teens: Self-Identification, Self-Construction and Self-Awareness. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 43(1), 46-55.
Recreational reading encouragementStudents need it!https://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/leisure-reading-position-statement.pdf?sfvrsn=8
Encourage your students to read (especially for fun)
in ANY format (magazines, graphic novels, non-
fiction, technical manuals).
And, add reading (for fun) into unexpected places in
the curriculum
Meanwhile…in the NL curriculum http://stor.mun.ca/bitstream/handle/123456789/36862/Literature%20in%20the%20curriculum.pdf?sequence=2
A Snapshot of Literature IntegrationMaurice Barry
Classroom toolshttp://guides.library.mun.ca/literature_education
NLPL Electronic Resource(need your free library card)
Memorial Electronic Resource(U = [blank] P = mun)
Booktalking Dos and Don’ts• Do share YOUR impressions • Do find your hook• Don’t recap the plot • Don’t give away the ending
Who am I?
Fred L. Worth wrote Super Trivia and other trivia books in the 1970s and inserted a single false fact to protect himself from copyright infringement.
Chris Haney & Scott Abbott designed the game Trivial Pursuit and used Mr. Worth’s books “for reference”.
Copyright forgeries, fakes, red herrings, fictions & “paper towns”
Myrna Mountweazel Lillian Virginia Mountweazelhttp://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/08/29/not-a-word
Bridge, anyone?
The Illustrated London News January 9, 1915
One EventMultiple Perspectives
Would you use these picture books in your classroom? How…?