1. TAKING C. A. R. E.
TO MOTIVATE READERS
Teri Lesesne (rhymes with insane)

2. Contact points
 @professornana on Twitter
 Teri Lesesne on Facebook
 Professornana.livejournal.com
 LS5385blog.blogspot.com
 terilesesne@gmail.com
 www.slideshare.net/professornana

3. C. A. R. E.
C is for COMMUNITY
A is for ACCESS
R is for RESPONSE
E is for ENGAGEMENT

4. BUILDING IT, GROWING IT, EXTENDING
IT
COMMUNITY

5. Plus #titletalk,
#nerdybookclub #bookaday,
yalsa-bk, ccbc-net, LIB_SCI
Some of my communities

6. Part of Teri’s reading family

7. Reading Partners

8. Communities
 Book clubs: formal. FTF, temporary
 Student book clubs
 Teacher book clubs
 Librarian book clubs
 Mother-daughter book clubs and permutations
 Twitter chats: informal, online, temporary
 Author visits: Skype, FTF, bookstores

9. Your Communities
 Take a few minutes and brainstorm with
others at the table some of the
communities you could form.

10. OUR READING
LIVES
One Community We Can Share

11. Teri’s Childhood

12. Terrible Tween Reading

13. Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens

14. Teri’s Split Personality

15. And Now?

16. Your reading autobiography
 So, what are the highlights of your reading
life?
 What are the low points?
 Titles, series, authors, books you recall
strongly?

17. What can reading autobiographies tell
us?

18. A Community of Readers
 Setting aside for reading
 Having a teacher show in the individual's
reading
 Having teachers
 Being exposed to a of reading fare
 Receiving help from
books
books with friends
 Participating in reader-centered of
literature

19. A is for ACCESS

20. Access Points
 Physical
 Intellectual
 Moral
 Emotional

22. PHYSICAL ACCESS
 At home
 In the library
 At hand

23. Intellectual
 Not just levels and lexiles
 Level of abstraction required
 Literary elements such as flashback,
symbolism, foreshadowing
 Themes

24. Towards the dragon's lair the
fellowship marched -- a noble
human prince, a fair elf, a surly
dwarf, and a disheveled copyright
attorney who was frantically
trying to find a way to differentiate
this story from "Lord of the
Rings."

25. On a fine summer morning during
the days of the Puritans, the prison
door in the small New England town
of B----n opened to release a
convicted adulteress, the Scarlet
Letter A embroidered on her dress,
along with the Scarlet Letters B
through J, a veritable McGuffey's
Reader of Scarlet Letters, one for
each little tyke waiting for her at the
gate.

26. Moral
 Kohlberg
Preconventional
Conventional
Post-conventional

27. Emotional
 EQ
 Maturity
 Response
 Triggers

28. What do they need to know?

29. What are the access points?

30. R is for Response (Rosenblatt)
Not just one type
Interpretive
Personal
Critical
Evaluative

31. Personal/Emotive
 WHAT IS YOUR “GUT”
TELLING YOU?

32. Interpretive
 If I were the main character…

33. Critical
 Analyze and dissect

34. Evaluative
 Is it GOOD or BAD?

35. What does research say?
Other Access Points

40. Make me laugh

41. Make me use my imagination

42. Tell a made up story

43. Have a mystery

44. Nonfiction

45. Are a “little” scary

46. Escapist

47. Mirrors

48. E is for ENGAGEMENT

49. IMMERSION
IMMERSION MEANS STEEPED IN ALL KINDS
OF TEXT

50. Picture Books

51. HISTORY A DAY AT A TIME
51

52. “Slice” of life
52

53. Civil Rights
53

54. Other Biographies
54

55. Caldecott 2015: Beekle
55

56. Viva Frida!

57. Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

58. The Right Word

59. This One Summer

60. Nana in the City

61. Noisy Paint Box

62. Some New Picture Books

63. Using PB with Pre-K

64. Dealing with tragedy

65. Unwanted visitors?

66. Elephantom

68. Rigor vs. Complexity

69. Audiobooks
 Reading with our ears promotes fluency, prosody. It
levels the field so that striving readers can access text,
too.

70. Pick One

71. Which one will you select?

72. Poetry or Lyrics?

73. Forthcoming Patrick Ness

74. Forthcvoming Walter Dean
Myers

75. GN

76. Old Wolf

77. Because they Marched

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90. 90

91. 91

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93. 93

94. 94

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96. 96

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