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1. How to Be a
Reading Sta(a)r:
{ Crossing Genres with Books
2. How do you find time to read?
How do you decide what to read?
How do you remember all the books you read?
How can we share books with students?
How can we show students how to connect books?
FAQs
3. Average person can
read 300 words per Average book is
minute 75,000 words
In one week, that is
Can read +20 books a
31,500 words year with only 15 minutes
a day
In one year, it is
1,512,000 words More than 1000 extra
books in a lifetime
Finding Time to Read
4.
5.
6. How do you decide
what to read?
{ Award Lists, Starred Reviews, Favorites
59. Start with Titlewave or Amazon searches
Keep blog posts for reading and use tags
Search other blogs
Use Twitter and hashtags
Work in teams
How to put more together
60. Global warming
Bullying
Social justice
Prejudice/racism
Elections
Themes/Topics to Explore
62. Children’s Book Council
Notable Trade Books in Science
Notable Trade Books in Social Studies
NCTE
Notable Trade Books in Language Arts
Orbis Pictus Award
ALSC
Sibert
YALSA
Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults
Some Resources
94. Interrogating Texts:
{ 6 Reading Habits to Develop
in Your First Year at Harvard
95. 1. Previewing:
Look “around” the text before you start reading.
• Prefatory material
• Text layout
• Flap summary
• Blurbs on back cover
• TOC if present
• Chapter titles
104. 2. Annotating:
“Dialogue” with yourself,
the author, and the issues and ideas at stake
• Annotating using post-it notes
• Annotating using e-readers
• Annotating using symbols
• Annotating using summary words
• Annotating using questions
106. Highlight
Make notes
Look up words
Annotating using e-readers
107. Develop symbol list with students
C-character
T-theme
???
Annotating using symbols
108. Pausing to write one word summary of the chapter
Pausing to write down two adjectives describing
reader’s emotions
Pausing to write three gerunds about events from
chapter
Pausing to write four word phrase central to events of
chapter
One word summary, synonym
Annotating using summary words
109. Key Questions
What would happen if the main character were of the
opposite sex?
Where is the story set?
What does the title tell you about the book? Does it tell
the truth?
Would you film this in B&W or color and why?
If you had to design a new cover, what would it look
like?
Annotating using questions
127. 4. Look for repetitions and patterns:
•Recurring images
•Repeated words, phrases, types of examples, or
illustrations
•Consistent ways of characterizing people, events, or
issues
147. Select theme or topic
Search Titlewave and Amazon for titles
Arrange titles from simplest to most complex
Provide choices on each rung
Allow students to add to the ladder titles
Constructing Ladders
148. determine the meaning of
grade-level academic English
words derived from Latin,
Greek, or other linguistic
roots and affixes
Addressing TEKS
149. infer the implicit theme of a
work of fiction,
distinguishing theme from
the topic
Addressing TEKS
150. compare and contrast the historical and
cultural settings of two literary works
Addressing TEKS
152. { Biography
{ Contemporary Fiction
Twain then and now
153. { Biography
{ Fantasy
A Dickens of a Tale or Two
154. Reading/Comprehension of Literary
Text/Poetry. Students understand, make
inferences and draw conclusions about the
structure and elements of poetry and provide
evidence from text to support their
understanding. Students are expected to
explain how figurative language (e.g.,
personification, metaphors, similes, hyperbole)
contributes to the meaning of a poem.
Addressing TEKS
156. summarize the elements of plot development
(e.g., rising action, turning point, climax, falling
action, denouement) in various works of fiction;
Addressing TEKS
161. interpret factual, quantitative, or technical
information presented in maps, charts,
illustrations, graphs, timelines, tables, and
diagrams
Addressing TEKS
170. From the limbs of ancient live oaks moccasins hung
like fat black sausages -- which are sometimes
called boudin noir, black pudding or blood pudding,
though why anyone would refer to a sausage as
pudding is hard to understand and it is even more
difficult to divine why a person would knowingly
eat something made from dried blood in the first
place -- but be that as it may, our tale is of voodoo
and foul murder, not disgusting food.
Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest: 2011 Results
171. Wearily approaching the murder scene of
Jeannie and Quentin Rose and needing to
determine if this was the handiwork of the
Scented Strangler--who had a twisted
affinity for spraying his victims with his
signature raspberry cologne--or that of a
copycat, burnt-out insomniac detective
Sonny Kirkland was sure of one thing: he’d
have to stop and smell the Roses.
172. Within the smoking ruins of Keister
Castle, Princess Gwendolyn stared in
horror at the limp form of the loyal
Centaur who died defending her
very honor; “You may force me to
wed,” she cried at the leering and
victorious Goblin King, “but you’ll
never be half the man he was.”
173. As his small boat scudded
before a brisk breeze under a
sapphire sky dappled with
cerulean clouds with indigo
bases, through cobalt seas that
deepened to navy nearer the
boat and faded to azure at the
horizon, Ian was at a loss as to
why he felt blue.
174. WINNER
Cheryl’s mind turned like the
vanes of a wind-powered turbine,
chopping her sparrow-like
thoughts into bloody pieces that
fell onto a growing pile of
forgotten memories.