The Reading Fire:

Kindling A Love for Books-

Teri Lesesne (rhymes with insane)

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Books

• Graphic novels

• Novels in verse

• Picture Books as Mentor Texts

Graphic Novels

The brilliant thing about the graphic novel is the way they

offer dyslexic readers several different cues to the

story. If a reader gets snagged on the vocabulary or

storyline of a graphic novel, illustrated pages offer

contextual cues to help decipher meaning. But don’t be

fooled; strong readers love the graphic novel as well. The

attraction can be likely be explained by the enjoyable

format.

Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity

GN can be NF

GN for younger readers

Even for beginning readers

Can tie to other media:

(Monkey’s Paw, Gremlins)

Collections of GN artists

Can encompass diversity

Older readers

Can tie to mythology

Classic texts made easier to access

Real life stories

Series

Strong women

Another classic

Dystopian GN

NF GN

Novels in Verse

• More white space

• Less text

• Different way of telling a story

Memoir

Historical Fiction

Sports

History

Fairy Tale Retellings

Point of view

History

Picture Books

• Similar to the benefits of GN

• Less text

• Scaffold of illustration

• Can be mentor texts

• Often have wide range of audience

Developing Empathy

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Mood and Tone

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Archetypes

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This read aloud brought to you by Mo Willems

•“Once upon a time there were three dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur,

Mama Dinosaur, and some other Dinosaur who happened to be

visiting from Norway.”32

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What does the opening sentence

tell readers?

Setting

Main characters

Motif

Archetype

And…it’s going to be funny!

Plus it addresses this CCSS (anchor standard):

Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details,

and well-structured event sequences

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Examining parody

Caldecott 2014

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Caldecott Honor

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Caldecott Honor

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Mentor Text

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History and biography

art

Romeo and Juliet

Huckleberry Finn

storytelling

Point of view

Parrots over puerto rico

Origin of stories

Many ways to tell a tale

32 pages to a punch line

Don’t lose sight of the pb

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