7. ―Reading aloud with children is known to
be the single most important activity for
building the knowledge and skills they will
eventually require for learning to read.‖
— Marilyn Jager Adams
77. Quantative
Quantitative measures stand as proxies
for semantic and syntactic complexity:
Word difficulty (frequency, length)
Sentence length and syntax
Some newer measures also measure
text cohesion and other features of
vocabulary
79. Problems with Quantitative
Analysis of Books
Reading levels
Syllables
Sentences
Lexile Levels
Syllables
Sentences
Semantics
Syntax
All of these rate only how students perform on tests
99. Here are recommendations
from lexile.com
Grades 2-3 Fiction
Alabama Moon
Cleopatra’s Moon
Under the Baseball Moon
NEW MOON
Grades 4-5 Humor
Jake Reinvented
I Want to Grow Hair
Hero by Perry Moore
100. Here are recommendations
from lexile.com
Grades 6-8 Graphic Novels
Sparky
11 other titles, none familiar
Grades 9-10 Mystery
Koontz, Poe, Bunting
Grades 11-12 Biography
Pocohantas, Shakespeare, Joan of Arc, Zane Grey
101. Using the resources we have at our fingertips
&
Not all these formulaic means
102.
103. Conventional Wisdom
Where do we go to get ideas about what to read?
How can we narrow it down from the 7500+ books
published annually?
How can we determine which books for which kids?
How do we then provide proof of rigor?
104. Where to get
recommendations?
Lists
Awards lists
Newbery
Printz
State reading lists
Bluebonnet
Lone Star
TAYSHAS
Maverick
Starred Review lists
Teens Top Ten
111. Starred Reviews
SIX STARS
Code Name Verity. Elizabeth Wein.
Fault in Our Stars, The. John Green.
Z Is for Moose. Kelly Bingham, illus. by Paul O.
Zelinsky.
FIVE STARS
Green. Laura Vaccaro Seeger.
112. Seeing Stars
FOUR STARS
Black Hole Is NOT a Hole, A. Carolyn Cinami
DeCristofano, illus. by Michael Carroll
Grave Mercy. Robin LaFevers
THREE STARS
Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip. Jordan
Sonnenblick
Lions of Little Rock, The. Kristin Levine
Wonder. R.J. Palacio
145. ―Students should have guidance
and frequent opportunities to work
with teachers and other students as
a community of learners, observing
their teachers as readers and
writers.
—NCTE Position on the Teaching of English
146. ―Reading Teacher (RT) a
teacher who reads and a
reader who teaches.‖
–Commeytas, Bisplinghoff, and Olson (2003)
147. 56% of unenthusiastic readers did not
have a teacher who shared a love of
reading, while 64% of enthusiastic
readers did have such a teacher.
-- Nathanson, Pruslow and Levitt (2008)
155. Titletalk
Last Sunday of the month
7-8 PM CST
156. How to Join
Use hashtag: #titletalk
Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck
Select "search" option using Titletalk
Post using #titletalk
Visit the archives (thanks Cindy!)
239. “I have long been convinced
that the central and most
important goal of reading
instruction is to foster a
love of reading.”
–Linda Gambrell, “Creating Classroom Cultures
that Foster Reading Motivation”
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