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CHAPTER BOOK LOVE Building a reading community with early and transitional readers @emmytbots #chapterbooklove
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CHAPTER BOOK LOVEBuilding a reading community with
early and transitional readers
@emmytbots #chapterbooklove
OUR MOST IMPORTANT
JOBBuilding readers,
Not just reading skills
A STORY…
READERS VS. READING SKILLS➤ Lifelong readers is the goal -
helping kids develop reading skills is the means.
➤ Reading skills can only develop through reading.
➤ A child who sees himself as a reader will read.
➤ A child who feels his reading identity is valued will read more.
➤ Teachers have the power and responsibility to create spaces where children become readers.
BUILDING YOUR
COMMUNITYClassroom culture that embraces every reader
WHAT IS IMPORTANT HERE?
The routines and structures of our classrooms send messages to students about what we value.
- Ron Ritchhart
➤ Bell Work ➤ Choice Time
➤ “When I’m Done" list ➤ Best Friend Book
➤ Scripted Read Alouds ➤ Pleasure Read Alouds
➤ Teacher Talk ➤ Student Talk
➤ Reading by Level ➤ Reading by Interest
LEAD THE WAY WITH READ ALOUDS
➤ Read aloud for fun and to build interest
➤ Read aloud widely - genres, levels, formats
➤ Build background for characters, premise, author’s voice, text features
➤ Humor - we know kids love it, but we have to help them understand the language to make it accessible
When we read to a child, we’re sending a pleasure message to the child’s brain. You could even call it a commercial, conditioning the child to associate books and print with pleasure.
- Jim Trelease
“I didn’t like reading before, but then I read Ricky Ricotta’s Mighty Robot, and I realized that reading is actually fun if you just think about it.”
-Varun (7 years old)
AND NOW FOR A LONG QUOTE:
If we want kids to love reading, choice is more important than taste!
- Emily Freeman, today
The research base on student-selected reading is robust and conclusive: Students read more, understand more, and are more likely to continue reading when they have the opportunity to choose what they read. In a 2004 meta-analysis, Guthrie and Humenick found that the two most powerful instructional design factors for improving reading motivation and comprehension were (1) student access to many books and (2) personal choice of what to read.
- Arlington and Gabriel, 2012
AND A SHORT ONE:
GIVE 'EM WHAT THEY WANT!
Scholastic Kids and Family Reading Report, 2015
MAKE 'EM BEG FOR IT!
➤ Raffles
➤ Book talks
➤ Student recommendations
I am so enthusiastic about reading, so joyful about books, so willing to share my opinions and my reading experiences that my students are swept up in my love of books and want to feel it for themselves.
- Donalyn Miller
KNOW YOUR READERS, KNOW YOUR BOOKS
➤ Ditch the levels!
➤ Can easily tell who is "reading" above their ability
➤ Are you having fun?
➤ No such thing as “Too Easy” or “Too Hard” - just “Too Boring”
➤ Be ready with a new recommendation
INVESTING IN SERIES
Getting the biggest bang for your buck
ADVANTAGES OF BOOK SERIES➤ Readers build background knowledge in first book that
makes subsequent books easier.
➤ Story/character can become more complex over time, deepening comprehension.
➤ There is always another book waiting for them!
167 and counting!
EARLY CHAPTER BOOKS➤ Familiar titles - Frog and Toad, Henry and Mudge
➤ Often feature friends as main characters/theme
➤ Line breaks, white space help children learn phrasing, track sentences across lines
➤ Usually do not have sentences break across pages
➤ Read these aloud with expression and enthusiasm so kids will view them as an exciting choice
ELEVATE THESE BOOKS BY PLACING THEM WITH OTHER CHAPTER BOOKS IN YOUR LIBRARY
MID-LEVEL CHAPTER BOOKS
➤ Look and feel like a later chapter book
➤ Larger fonts, more white space, fewer words on a line
➤ Illustrations
➤ Sentences go across pages
➤ More varied leads - require kids to get into story right away, get an ear for author’s voice
ANY OF THE NEW BRANCHES SERIES BY SCHOLASTIC HAVE BEEN A HUGE HIT!
LATER CHAPTER BOOKS
➤ Level M or above
➤ Familiar titles - Cam Jansen, Magic Tree House
➤ More text, less white space, smaller fonts
➤ Few illustrations
➤ Many begin in the middle of a scene - kids need to visualize to understand and move into the story.
LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR BOOK-ALIKES FOR READERS WHO ARE READY TO MOVE ON
FINDING AFFORDABLE
BOOKSBook Addicts Beware!
FREE BOOKS
Create temporary series bins
from the library
USED BOOKS
NEW BOOKS
FURTHER READING
➤ The Book Whisperer, by Donalyn Miller (2009)
➤ Creating Cultures of Thinking, by Ron Ritchhart (2015)
➤ Beyond Leveled Readers, by Karen Szymusiak, Franki Sibberson, and Lisa Koch (2008)
➤ The Read Aloud Handbook, by Jim Trelease (2013)
➤ Teaching With Intention, by Debbie Miller (2008)
