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TAKING C A R E OF
READERS
A presentation for VSRA by
Teri S. Lesesne (rhymes with
insane)
@professornana on Twitter
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C is for community
A is for access
R is for response
E is for engagement
C. A. R. E.
Some FTF Communities
Some are hybrids
Some of my communities
#titletalk
Hosted by Donalyn Miller and Colby Sharp
Last Sunday of every month
8 pm Eastern time
Topic announced in advance (January was
gifted readers)
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#bproots
Hosted by Teri Lesesne and Donalyn Miller
Discusses the ROOTS of our BEST
PRACTICES
Announced a few weeks in advance
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Listservs
YALSA-bk
LIB_SCI
NCTE Connected Communities
Part of my reading family
Reading Partners
Communities can be:
Permanent or temporary
FTF or online
Formal or informal
Communities are where we share our
reading LIVES
Building Community
OUR READING
LIVES
One Community We Can Share
My Childhood
My Terrible Tween Reading
Where’s the YA? My Teens
My Split Personality
And NOW?
Getting to Know YOUR
Readers
Ask them to create a reading autobiography
Can be written
Can use app such as www.whenintime.com
Here is mine
Collect them, analyze them for commonalities
Identify kids who are already readers and
those who are not
READ BETWEEN THE LINES
HANK ZIPZER’S BOOK OF PICKLES, OOPS, I MEAN LISTS
BLACKBIRD FLY
WHEN OTIS COURTED MAMA
ABE LINCIOLN: HIS WIT AND WISDOM FROM A-Z
AFTERWORLDS
EMMA AND THE BLUE GENIE
THE $25,000 FLIGHT
ELLIE’S STORY
THE STORY OF OWEN
BIG GAME
My Reading Life Now:
Highlights from December 2014
TBR Stacking Priorities
SIX STARS
Brown Girl Dreaming. Jacqueline Woodson. Penguin/Paulsen, $16.99
Family Romanov, The: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia. Candace Fleming. Random House, $18.99
Glory O’Brien’s History of the Future. A.S. King. Little, Brown, $18
This One Summer. Mariko Tamaki, illus. by Jillian Tamaki. First Second, $21.99 hc, $17.99 pb
Recommendation from my Voxer group
Cover
Title
Author
Blurb
Review
Setting up my TBR Stack/Shelf
Book clubs: formal. FTF, temporary
Student book clubs
Teacher book clubs
Librarian book clubs
Twitter chats: informal, online, temporary
Author visits: Skype, FTF, bookstores
School Communities
Take a few minutes and brainstorm with
others at the table some of the
communities you could form in your
school, district, and beyond
Your Communities
A is for ACCESS
Physical
Intellectual
Moral
Emotional
Access Points
At home
In the classroom
In the school library
At hand
PHYSICAL ACCESS
Not just levels and lexiles
Level of abstraction required
Literary elements such as flashback,
symbolism, foreshadowing
Themes
Intellectual
What do these books have in
common?
Reading Levels
Fahrenheit 451: 3.5 to 5.2
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: 5.2-6.5
Speak: 4.5
She walked into my office on legs as long
as one of those long-legged birds that
you see in Florida - the pink ones, not the
white ones - except that she was
standing on both of them, not just one of
them, like those birds, the pink ones, and
she wasn't wearing pink, but I knew right
away that she was trouble, which those
birds usually aren't.
Access
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."
Access
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.
Access
Kohlberg
Preconventional
Conventional
Post-conventional
Moral
EQ
Maturity
Response
Triggers
Emotional
Intellectual
R is for Response (Rosenblatt)
Not just one type
Interpretive
Personal
Critical
Evaluative
Personal/Emotive
WHAT IS YOUR “GUT” TELLING
YOU?
Interpretive
If I were the main character…
Critical
Analyze and dissect
Evaluative
Is it GOOD or BAD?
Teaching Kids to Evaluate
Reading
Read reviews
Create blurbs for their favorite books
Make shelf talkers
Do book commercials/ads
Words to avoid
Cute
Funny, sad
What words would you add?
E is for Engagement
What engagement is NOT
What engagement IS
How can we tell?
What it is and is not
What it IS and is NOT
What it involves
CHOICE
INTEREST