Morning and afternoon keynote presentation

1. Taking C.A.R.E. of Readers
Katy I.S.D.
July 2015
Teri Lesesne (rhymes with
insane)

2. Contact Points
• @professornana on Twitter
• www.Professornana.livejournal.com
• doctorL@shsu.edu
• www.slideshare.net/professornana

3. Our Reading
Lives

4. Teri’s Childhood

5. Terrible Tween Teri

6. Where’s the YA? Teri’s Teens

7. Teri’s Split Personality

8. AND
NOW?

9. Your turn
• Jot down 4-5 titles, authors from your childhood
or tween years or adolescence or adult reading
life.
• Don’t dwell on this. Write down the first things
that come to mind. You can have fewer or more
titles.

10. Which one title is most special or
key for you? Why?
Be prepared to share this with your
“neighbor” in a few minutes.

11. TERI’S TBR STACK
PRIORITIES

12. What Does TBR Mean?

13. TBR Stacks

14. • Recommendation from my Voxer group
• Cover
• Title
• Author
• Blurb
• Review
• Genre
Setting up a TBR Stack/Shelf

15. RECOMMENDED BEST BOOKS
2015
28 DAYS
A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES
A FINE DESSERT
A SENSE OF THE INFINITE
ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
ALL THE ANSWERS
ALL THE RAGE
AN EMBER IN THE ASHES
ARES, BRINGER OF WAR
AUDACITY
BACKLASH
BIRD & DIZ
BONE GAP
BREAKOUT
CAT AND BUNNY
CHALLENGER DEEP
CHASING FREEDOM
CIRCUS MIRANDUS

16. CHARACTER, DRIVEN
COLONIAL MADNESS
COUNTING CROWS
DARKEST PART OF THE FOREST
DIME
ECHO
EGG, NATURE’S PERFECT PACKAGE
ELENA VANISHING
ENCHANTED AIR
ENSNARED
FIREFIGHT
FIRELY HOLLOW
FISH IN A TREE
GINGERBREAD FOR LIBERTY
GONE CRAZY IN ALABAMA
GOODBYE STRANGER
GOODNIGHT ALREADY
HELLO STRANGER
HOLD ME CLOSER
HONEY
HOPE AND OTHER LUXURIES
HOW TO BUILD A GIRL
HYPNOTIZE A TIGER
I CRAWL THROUGH IT
I DON’T WANT TO BE A FROG
IF YOU PLANT A SEED
LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET
LISTEN SLOWLY
LOOK

17. MAKING PRETTY
MACBETH (GN)
MILO SPECK
MOONPENNY ISLAND
MOSQUITOLAND
NIGHTBIRD
NO PARKING AT END TIMES
ONE THING STOLEN
PAPER THINGS
RAIN REIGN (2014)
RANDOM BODY PARTS
RANGER IN TIME
READ BETWEEN THE LINES
RED QUEEN
REMEMBER ME
RETURN TO AUGIE HOBBLE
ROLLER GIRL
SHUTTER
SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA
SKINK NO SURRENDER (Think this is 2014)
SPECIAL DELIVERY
ST. ANYTHING
STELLA BY STARLIGHT
SWEEP UP THE SUN
TEDDY MARS
THE ALEX CROW
THE BOOK SCAVENGER
THE BOY IN THE BLACK SUIT
THE CASE FOR LOVING
THE CROWN AFFAIR

18. THE DEATH OF THE HAT
THE GAME OF LOVE AND DEATH
THE GRIMM’S TALE
THE HANDLESS MAIDEN
THE HERO OF ROOM 138
THE LAST TIME WE SAY GOODBYE
THE NEW SMALL PERSON
THE HONEST TRUTH
THE RAT WITH THE HUMAN FACE
THE SACRED LIES OF MINNOW BLY
THE TERRIBLE TWO
THE TRUTH ABOUT TWINKIE PIE
THE WAY TO STAY IN DESTINY
THE WAR THAT SAVED MY LIFE
THE WHISPER
TO ALL THE BOYS I’VE LOVED BEFORE
TOAD WEATHER
UNDERTOW
UP IN THE GARDEN, DOWN IN THE DIRT
VIRGIL AND OWEN
WHEN OTIS COURTED MAMA
WHY’D THEY WEAR THAT?
WISH GIRL
WOLFIE THE BUNNY
WRITTEN IN THE STARS
X: A NOVEL

19. Getting to Know Readers
• Ask them to create a reading autobiography
 Can be written
 Can use app such as www.whenintime.com
 Here is Teri's
• Collect them, analyze them for commonalities
• Identify kids who are already readers and those
who are not

20. Turn and talk at your tables about your
memories of reading.
And get out your smart phones or devices for a
short survey
Go to
www.kahoot.it

22. A short survey about reader
identity
Get ready…

23. What else do we
know about
readers?
Carlsen and
Sherrill

24. • 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
• Being allowed freedom of in reading fare
Voices of Readers
Carlsen and Sherrill

25. Finding the Time
• Edge time (Donalyn
Miller)
• Priority time
• Class time
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26. Edge Time
• Reading on the fringes
 Appointments
 Bathroom books
 Car
 Purse or bookbag
 Phone books
• eBooks and audiobooks (more later about these)
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27. How will you find time?
• Make a goal now
• Enter your time to read into your smart device
calendar
• Repeat alarm for 30 days

28. Binge Reading
• Rainy days
• Mental health days
• Scheduled days (once a month?)
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29. When school begins again
• What time will you set aside?
• How will you encourage kids to set aside their
own time?
• Reading in the Wild vs. School Time Reading

30. Class Time
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31. Some Tips
• Picture books
• Graphic novels
• Quick reads
• Poem or story a day
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32. 2015 Caldecott

33. Belpre and CS King 2015

34. GN Award Winners

35. Quick Reads

36. Poem a Day

37. Story Collections

38. INTEREST

41. MAKE ME LAUGH

42. Humor

44. Imagination

45. Teach Me Something

46. Mystery

47. A “little” scary

48. Let me escape

49. Have a personal connection

50. Kids Need
and

52. #wndb

53. #wndb

54. #wndb

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57. #wndb

58. #wndb

59. #wndb

60. #wndb

61. #wndb

62. #wndb

63. #wndb

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

65. BUILDING IT, GROWING IT, EXTENDING IT
COMMUNITY

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

67. Part of Teri’s reading family

68. Reading Partners

69. 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

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

71. A is for ACCESS

72. Access Points
• Physical
• Intellectual
• Moral
• Emotional

74. PHYSICAL ACCESS
• At home
• In the library
• At hand

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

76. 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."

77. 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.

78. Moral
• Kohlberg
Preconventional
Conventional
Post-conventional

79. Emotional
• EQ
• Maturity
• Response
• Triggers

80. What do they need to know?

81. What are the access points?

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

83. Personal/Emotive
• WHAT IS YOUR “GUT”
TELLING YOU?

84. Interpretive
• If I were the main character…

85. Critical
• Analyze and dissect

86. Evaluative
• Is it GOOD or BAD?

87. What does research say?
OTHER ACCESS POINTS

90. E is for ENGAGEMENT

91. Immersion
IMMERSION MEANS STEEPED IN
ALL KINDS OF TEXT

92. HISTORY A DAY AT A TIME
92

93. “Slice” of life
93

94. Civil Rights
94

95. Other Biographies
95

96. Sam and Dave Dig a Hole

97. This One Summer

98. Noisy Paint Box

99. Some New Picture Books

100. Using PB with Pre-K

101. Unwanted visitors?

103. Rigor vs. Complexity

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

105. Pick One

106. Which one will you select?

107. Poetry or Lyrics?

108. Forthcoming Patrick Ness

109. Forthcvoming Walter Dean Myers

110. GN

111. Old Wolf

117. 117

118. 118

119. 119

120. 120

121. 121

122. 122

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124. 124

125. 125

126. 126

127. 127

128. • http://ifllibraries.com/post/116330953920/bruno-
mars-uptown-funk-parody-unread-book