help! they don’t like to read!
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Follow up session at UCTETRANSCRIPT
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
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26
32
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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