help! they don’t like to read!

HELP! THEY DON’T LIKE

TO READ!

What teachers think

What does NOT work?

What kids say

The research?

Vickey Giles

Karen Sue Gibson

Replicated study from 20 years earlier (Livaudais)

The questions?

The Questions

What could

someone do

to make you

HATE to read

BEFORE/AFTER

you read?

What could

someone do

to make you

WANT to read

BEFORE/AFTER

you read?

What could someone do to make you

want to read BEFORE you read?

K-12

Being allowed to choose any

book you want to read

What could someone do to

make you want to read

BEFORE you read?

K-12

Having a classroom library

What could someone do

to make you want to read

BEFORE you read?

K-12

Having the teacher read a book or

chapter a day

What could someone do to

make you want to read

BEFORE you read?

K-12

Having the teacher take you to the

library

What could someone do to

make you want to read

BEFORE you read?

6-12

Having the author come to the

school

What could someone do to

make you want to read

BEFORE you read?

6-12

Seeing the movie or television production

of a book.

What could someone do

to make you want to read

BEFORE you read?

6-12

Being allowed to read books with

lots of pictures in them.

T A R G E T

T is for TRUST

A is for ACCESS

Accessing Text

R is for RESPONSE

Response

G is for GUIDANCE

Bridging between Books

Nonfiction

Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

25

26

32

33

6 word

memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.

YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.

GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be

Hank Green's memoir?)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.

YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.

LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE.

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more

complex

36

Humor Reading

Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Form and Format

Ladder

Genres

Categories

E is for ENTHUSIASM

T is for TWEEN

and TEEN APPEAL

What are the current trends?

Series (never seems to fade)

Paranormal (though the “para” has

shifted)

Media tie-ins

Post apocalyptic

Plus some wonderful authors

John Green

David Levithan

R.J. Palacio

Zusak

Chbosky

Alexie

Asher

Draper