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Tamara Cox Monique German

Keeping

Lit @

the Core

Why Are We Talking About Novels??

Nonfiction

Fiction to Nonfiction Shift

4th Grade 8th Grade 12th Grade

50% 45% 30%

50% 55%70%

Fiction

Why Are We Worried About Novels?

Unbalanced emphasis on Lexile levels compared to student needs

What do the experts say?

Stephen Krashen: The author of The Power of Reading insists that the research indicates that the problem is poverty, not a broken public education system. Donalyn Miller: “No matter what standards we adopt or tests we administer, the children who read the most will always outperform the children who don’t read much.” (Tweet August 21, 2012)

What About Independent Reading?

It’s in there – but buried!

Appendix A – page 8“Students need opportunitiesto stretch their reading abilities but also to experience the satisfaction and pleasure of easy, fluent reading within them, both of which the Standards allow for. As noted above, such factors as students’ motivation, knowledge, and experiences must also come into play in text selection.”

What do these books have in common?

Link to full blog article: http://bit.ly/SXb8qp

Lexile Does Not Tell The Whole Story

Selecting Literature for the Common Core Classroom

Source: Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Appendix A

Emphasize Recreational Reading

High School

All rights reserved, Powdersville High School, used by permission

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Help Students Find Their Niche

http://www.emsisd.com/Page/12477

What’s My Genre Quiz –From Leigh Collazo, Ed Willkie Middle School LibraryFort Worth, Texas Book Pass

Genre Stickers And/orGenre Shelving

Share Novels with Teachers

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristenhearne/sets/72157631002468978/

Best of Summer Reading

Connect Fiction to Nonfiction

“The Whipping Boy”

Use QR codes

Connect historical fiction with curriculum content knowledge

Literary Nonfiction

Help Teachers Evaluate Classroom Novels

Lexile 570

Lexile 700 Lexile 830 Lexile 870

Lexile 970 Lexile 760 Lexile 750Lexile 700Lexile 810

Tamara CoxLibrarian at Palmetto Middle School coxt@anderson1.k12.sc.us @coxtl on TwitterBlog: www.e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com Kristen

Hearne

MoniqueGerman Librarian at Powdersville Middle

germanm@anderson1.k12.sc.us @bibliogerman on Twitterhttp://thisshelfreserved.blogspot.com/

Librarian at Wren Middle hearnek@anderson1.k12.sc.us @KHearne on TwitterBlog: http://thelibrarianinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

Resources

• http://thecommoncore.wordpress.com/common-core-and-the-school-library-media-center/

• Donalyn’s article on Lexile: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/2012/07/guess_ my_lexile.html

• Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Appendix A

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• Image “balance scale” winifredxoxo