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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
Some rights reserved, Powdersville High School
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 [email protected] @coxtl on TwitterBlog: www.e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com Kristen
Hearne
MoniqueGerman Librarian at Powdersville Middle
[email protected] @bibliogerman on Twitterhttp://thisshelfreserved.blogspot.com/
Librarian at Wren Middle [email protected] @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
• Image “apple core.” via Flickr, some rights reserved by xtnsgo
• Image “balance scale” winifredxoxo