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GETTING TWEENSCONNECTED TO BOOKS
AND READING
WITHDR. TERI LESESNE
Naked Reading1
WITH THE BOOKS ON THE TWO TRAIN
BYSOME ANONYMOUS STUDENTS
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To the woman, we think you’re a teacher,
On the platform for the 2 trainyou stand with a book in your handthe pages openWhich is how you enter the trainReading Sometimes you smile, or frownOnce you even criedon the trainwhen you were reading Nightand a man sitting across the aislesaid he cried too, when he read that bookand we thought,we want to read that bookso we did
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And then you were reading all those basketball books by Walter Dean Myersso we read those toospeeding along on the 2 trainone time you saw us reading Slamand you saidI love that bookand do you think Slam is going to make it
in highschool?We do, we think he’s going to make it
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Then you were reading some really hard stuffEpistemology of the Closet, Postmodern NarrativeTheory
and we tried those, but we think you have to have read
the books those authors have read, if you want to read
their books Our favorite is when you are reading poetryPicnic, Lightningand you lean back against the seatand smileand keep reading the same page again and againwe do that now and it’s really nice
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Last week you were reading The Life of Piand we rushed out to buy it
So we could be in the lifeboat adrift in the blue, blue seawith the boy, the Bengal Tiger, and you If we don’t see you next yearon the trainMaybe sometime we’ll bump into each other
on the platform You’ll know us becausewe’ll have books in our hands
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“People are so desperate to raise test scores that we could well end up with
a nation of kids who can pass tests but can neither read critically nor
enjoy the act of reading itself.”
P. DAVID PEARSONNEA TODAY, 2004
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Close your eyes (yes… close your eyes) and take a moment to
think back on…
• A HAPPY MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 10 YEARS OLD
• A SAD MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 11 YEARS OLD
• AN EMBARRASSING MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 12 YEARS OLD
• A GREAT MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 13 YEARS OLD
• A “TRAUMATIC” MEMORY FROM WHEN YOU WERE 14 YEARS OLD
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Now take a moment to share one of those memories with the person to your right or left….
How different were your memories from the person
next to you? They may have been very different or there
may have been some similarities.
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There is no one template for the tween. Some of this will
apply and some will not.
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So when I began to write a book about tweens and
reading….
A TITLESOME RESEARCH
A LATE NIGHT INSPIRATION
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The naked child14
The research?
Vickey Giles
Karen Sue Gibson
Replicated study from 20 years earlier
The questions?
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What could someone do to make you WANT to read
BEFORE/AFTER you read?
THE CONVERSE: WHAT COULD SOMEONE DO TO MAKE YOU HATE TO READ BEFORE/AFTER YOU
READ?
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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
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Great topic18
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HAVING A CLASSROOM LIBRARY
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?K-12
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Language play22
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
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Audio24
HAVING THE TEACHER TAKE YOU TO THE LIBRARY
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?K-12
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Two versions26
HAVING THE AUTHOR COME TO THE SCHOOL
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?6-12
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SEEING THE MOVIE OR TELEVISION PRODUCTION OF A BOOK.
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?29
Coming soon to a theater near you…30
BEING ALLOWED TO READ BOOKS WITH LOTS OF PICTURES IN THEM.
What could someone do to make you want to read BEFORE you
read?6-12
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Graphic Novels32
More GNs33
T-A-R-G-E-T
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Late night inspiration
T is for TRUST35
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A is for ACCESS40
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R is for RESPONSE43
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G is for GUIDANCE46
Humor Develops47
Basic, physical
Character and situation
Irony and Satire
Odd but true48
Foul plays49
Blogs and other stuff50
Just plain fun51
Politically incorrect52
Juvenile humor53
Food humor54
Young at heart55
Bathroom humor56
Episodic humor57
Funny poems58
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Audio humor60
Sophisticated humor61
It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of
course. But sometimes
if the person is very unpleasant
you can hardly stop yourself.62
Most schools have a system of loud bells
which startle the students and teachers
at regular intervals and remind them
that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.
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The expression “Those who can’t do, teach,”
is a curious one, because if you look at the world,
you’ll see that teachers aren’t particularly worse than anyone
else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as, “Nobody can do anything.”
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Playing with genres65
E is for ENTHUSIASM66
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T is for TWEEN APPEAL68
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Who dun it?
ReynieKateStickyConstance
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New series
JonahChip
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Autobiography72
Jaws73
Trivia that’s cool74
Math phobic?75
Anime meets nonfiction76
Web based text77
Call out boxes78
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