1. Take Aways
What are the essentials?

2. #1 Educators as Models
• Kids need to see us read
• Kids need to hear us talk about
books
SO, what is your individual
pledge/goal/resolution for the
coming months?

3. #1 Educators as Models
Kids need to see us read
Kids need to hear us talk about
books

4. #2 TIME
Set aside time daily to read
Find the edge or fringe times
Give kids time to read as well
Communicate to parents about time
commitments

5. #3 CHOICE
Give kids choices
Choices can be narrowed or limited
(but not by levels, lexiles, # of pages)
Work with librarians in puting
together recommendations

6. #4 COMMUNITIES
Readers need to be part of a
community of readers (or more than
one)
Communities can be permanent or
temporary
Community members TALK to one
another

7. #5 DIVERSITY
No such thing as ONE SIZE FITS ALL
Race and ethnicity are not the only
factors
Consider SES, gender, family
structure, etc.

8. #6 CHANGING UP
Genres vs. Forms and formats
Using PB with older readers
Considering GNs as complex text, too

9. #7 ASSESSMENT
Needs to be authentic
Needs to be varied
Needs to avoid « right » answers
Black out poetry, remixing, spine
poems, Peck’s Questions, etc.

10. #8 PLN
Online communities
Twitter
Facebook
Chats

11. #9 DISPLAYS
Book walls/doors
Literacy lockers
Bulletin boards
Displays

12. #10 FILLING IN
Reading widely
Booktalking variety
Challenging kids to do the same

13. Title
SO, what is your individual
pledge/goal/resolution for the coming months?
On the index cards, write a personal goal(s) on
one side and then on the reverse write a
professional goal(s)
We will mail them to you later in the fall