final reflection conroe
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Take Aways
What are the essentials?
#1 Educators as Models
• Kids need to see us read• Kids need to hear us talk about books
SO, what is your individual pledge/goal/resolution for the coming months?
#1 Educators as Models
Kids need to see us read
Kids need to hear us talk about books
#2 TIME
Set aside time daily to read
Find the edge or fringe times
Give kids time to read as well
Communicate to parents about time commitments
#3 CHOICE
Give kids choices
Choices can be narrowed or limited (but not by levels, lexiles, # of pages)
Work with librarians in puting together recommendations
#4 COMMUNITIES
Readers need to be part of a community of readers (or more than one)
Communities can be permanent or temporary
Community members TALK to one another
#5 DIVERSITY
No such thing as ONE SIZE FITS ALL
Race and ethnicity are not the only factors
Consider SES, gender, family structure, etc.
#6 CHANGING UP
Genres vs. Forms and formats
Using PB with older readers
Considering GNs as complex text, too
#7 ASSESSMENT
Needs to be authentic
Needs to be varied
Needs to avoid « right » answers
Black out poetry, remixing, spine poems, Peck’s Questions, etc.
#8 PLN
Online communities
Chats
#9 DISPLAYS
Book walls/doors
Literacy lockers
Bulletin boards
Displays
#10 FILLING IN
Reading widely
Booktalking variety
Challenging kids to do the same
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SO, what is your individual pledge/goal/resolution for the coming months?
On the index cards, write a personal goal(s) on one side and then on the reverse write a professional goal(s)
We will mail them to you later in the fall