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Power point from the works for the LSU YA Lit Conference June 2, 2014TRANSCRIPT
Common Core and Best Practices
Making the MatchTeri S. Lesesne
(rhymes with insane)@professornana
Building community
Reading aloud
Offering choice in reading material
Authentic literature
Real response
What are some of our best (research-based)
practices?
The Research Base
Donalyn Miller Richard Allington Becoming a Nation of Readers NCTE and IRA Joint Statement on what
adolescent deserve ASCD Yankelovich Penny Little Kelly Gallagher
Community in the Classroom
Importance of community
Via Donalyn Miller
Community Leaders
Via Donalyn Miller
Teacher as reader
Access to books (literally and then on higher level)
Choice
Opportunities to talk about books and reading
Time to read
Building Community
Teacher as Reader
Newbery for 2014? Printz?
Access to Books
Access also means a range of books kids can and will understand
Range of genres
Range of forms and formats
Choice in Reading
Forms, formats, genres
Beyond book reports and dioramas
Peck’s Questions
Student as Leader of Discussion: DIR (Terry Ley)
Book Talk/Conferring
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Finding the Time
Edge time (Donalyn Miller) Fringe Time (me)
Priority time
Class time
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Edge Time
Reading on the fringes
Appointments
Bathroom books
Car
Purse or bookbag
Phone books eBooks and audiobooks
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Priority Time
If it is not a priority for us, how can we expect it to be a priority for them?
Take a moment to jot down one time you will set aside daily (just 5 minutes) to read.
Make this commitment real by adding it to your calendar.
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Class Time
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Finding Time to Read
Average person can
read 300 words per minute
In one week, that is
31,500 words
In one year, it is
1,512,000 words
Average book is
75,000 words
Can read +20 books a year with only 15 minutes a day
More than 1000 extra books in a lifetime
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Comprehension and Collaboration1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, andorally.3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas4. Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
How does community assist us with CCSS?
Hearing voices
Read alouds beyond primary grades
This read aloud brought to you by Mo Willems
“Once upon a time there were three dinosaurs: Papa Dinosaur, Mama Dinosaur, and some other Dinosaur who happened to be visiting from Norway.”
What does the opening sentence tell
readers? Setting
Main characters
Motif
Archetype
And…it’s going to be funny!
Plus it addresses this CCSS (anchor standard):
Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, well-chosen details,and well-structured event sequences
Brought to you by Charles Benoit
Opening lines
You’re surprised at all the blood.He looks at you, eyes wide, mouth droppingOpen, his face almost as white as his shirt.He’s surprised, too.
There’s not a lot of broken glass, though, just some tiny slivers around his feet and one big piece busted into sharp peaks like a spiking line graph, the blood washing down it like rain on a windshield.
In two paragraphs, what do we learn?
Simile and metaphor
Strong verbs
Use of second person
How details contribute to overall effect
CCSS Anchor Standards for Reading:
4. Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurativemeanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
5. Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text(e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
6. Assess how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
Closes achievement gap since students can
generally listen above their reading comprehension level.
Offers model of fluency and prosody.
Serves to assist with listening and speaking elements of CCSS.
Motivates K-12 to read and read more. (research)
Why read aloud?
Offering choices
Ensuring that choices reflect developmental needs of kids
Books as mirrors
Books as windows
Widening the curriculum to narrow
the gap
Extensive vs. Intensive
Extensive
Central text Shorter selections to
accompany central text Different genres,
forms, and formats
CCSS calls this model framework
Intensive(not to be confused with close reading)
Focus on one text Dissect it
Kids read more
Kids performed as well on tests at the end of the unit of study
Kids’ attitudes toward books and reading was higher
Research covers 1940s forward
Extensive research
Example of a Model Framework
Core text
Add to Core Text
Informational
Advances in cancer treatment
Cancer in teens Side effects of
cancer treatments Self help groups Biographies of
reclusive authors
Literary
Catcher in the Rye “Death Be not
Proud” (poem) Other Printz award
winners Short story
collections with YA authors
And now the MOVIE!
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas7. Integrate and evaluate content presented in diverse formats and media, including visually and quantitatively, as well as in words.*8. Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well asthe relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.9. Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
Range of Reading and Level of Text Complexity10. Read and comprehend complex literary and informational texts independently and proficiently.
How this aligns to CCSS
Note on range and content of student reading
To become college and career ready, students must grapple with works of exceptional craft and thought whose range extends across genres, cultures, and centuries. Such works offer profound insights into the human condition and serve as models for students’ own thinking and writing.
Through wide and deep reading of literature and literary nonfiction of steadily increasing sophistication, students gain a reservoir of literary and cultural knowledge, references,and images; the ability to evaluate intricate arguments; and the capacity to surmount the challenges posed by complex texts.
CCSS
Quantitative Measures
Lexile Reading level(s)
Qualitative Measures Levels of Meaning Narrative structure Language Conventionality and Clarity Knowledge Demands
What qualities are essential?
Reading levels
Syllables Sentences
Lexile Levels Syllables Sentences Semantics Syntax
All of these rate only how students perform on tests
Problems with Quantitative Analysis of
Books
Higher or Lower?
Guess Again!
4.8 790 4.0 680
Higher or Lower?
Hmmm….
5.7 920 5.7 960
Higher or Lower?
Guess again!
5.7 990 5.9 850
Higher or Lower
Guess again!
n/a 620 4.1 630
One More Time
Huh?
4.2 5.0
Qualitative measures complement quantitative measures:
Purpose Language conventionality and clarity Text structures Knowledge demands
Qualitative Measures
Narrative structure Shifts in time (flashback and foreshadowing) Point of view (multiple narrators, unreliable
narrator)
Language Figurative devices Irony Parody
Knowledge Demands Cultural intertextuality
Translation
Personal/Emotive
What is your gut reaction to the text?
Interpretive If you were one of the characters, what would you
have done differently?
Critical How does the author demonstrate her or his craft?
Evaluative What makes this a “good” or “bad” book?
Levels of Response
A better approach
Using the resources we have at our fingertips
&Not all these formulaic means
Where do we go to get ideas about what to
read?
How can we narrow it down from the 7500+ books published annually?
How can we determine which books for which kids?
How do we then provide proof of rigor?
Conventional Wisdom
Lists
Awards lists Newbery Printz
Starred Review lists
Teens Top Ten
Where to get recommendations?
BFYA QP Notables Orbis Pictus Sibert YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Morris Great Graphic Novels for Teens Stonewall
But also…
Narrative Structure
Simple vs. complex
Explicit vs. implicit
Chronological vs. non-linear
Qualitative
Narrative Structure
Language conventionality and clarity
Dialect Conversational Rich Vivid
Qualitative
Language Usage
Knowledge demands
Sophisticated themes
Experience and perspective (close reading
conflict)
Context
Social milieu
Qualitative
What we want are lifelong readers and
learners…
Because this is not the problem…
This is…