Part III: Making the Match

1. Reading Aloud

2. Booktalking

3. Motivating Readers

Reading Aloud

• Jim Trelease: New Read Aloud Handbook• Becoming a Nation of Readers• Mem Fox: Reading Magic

“The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book and the person reading…It’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.”

Three P’s of Reading Aloud

Three P’s of Reading Aloud

•Preview–Language–Appropriateness

•Practice–Eye Contact–Pronunciation

•Personalize–Performance–Emotion / reactions

Beginning• Start of the Year

• Start of Class

• Audiobooks

Keeping it Fresh• Read and Tease

• Introductions

• Whole Class

• Read and Think

• Ratings

• No tests or quizzes on read alouds

• Let them listen comfortably

• Have students summarize verbally the next day or discuss

• Refer to readingin journals

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Booktalking

• “Nomads of the library” - NGB!

• Personal invitation, not a book report or critique

• Test drive oradvertisement

AudienceAudience

• Curricular Goals?

• Ability?

• Interests?

Connect and Read

• Theme or agenda:–What would I do…–Variation on a story–If I were a _______

• Read it–Vouch for content–Appropriate choices

Plan and Plan• Take notes• Flipping while talking to find

a character name = “I didn’t like it as much as I said I did”

• Timing –5-10 min. = 2-3 books–>30 min. = 5-10 books

Things to remember…

• Segue• Bookend strong ones• Long, then short• Notes • Time check

Do’s

• Notes• Variety of genre• Hooks• Attention – shock or humor• Vary length and

content – no “Reading Rainbow” finishes

Don’ts

• Don’t do a book you didn’t read(or enjoy)

• Don’t oversell• Don’t LECTURE • Don’t blow the plot• Don’t use a canned talk

After the talking,

they (try to) find their own!!

Some still need help–Use Media Specialist

–Have a cart of high-interest books

–Become the YA “expert”

–Know how to find booklists

–Know the surefire authors

–Compare TV/Movies

Book pass–Teacher selects titles

–Kids spend a minute or two with each book

–Pull book out of rotation if they find one to read

–Folder – title, author, genre, thumbs-up

USSR, DEAR, SSR–Uninterrupted and silent–Comfortable –Regularly scheduled–Everyone reads–GRADE IT–Some reaction/

processing–Benefits?

DIR – Directed Individualized Reading

–Time in class–Kids recommend books

– teachers read them–Student-led conference–Select from a list–Read with them in

class

Books on Tape–Circulate/Check out–Reluctant readers –Follow along with book (make

sure you get unabridged)–Have kids draw what they

hear (inference – Prairie Home and Guy Noir)

Peck’s Questions–Good , thoughtful

questions

–Book report alternative

–Have kids answer the two they think are the most important

–Handout

–Summary and critical component

–100-200 words

–Practicing succinct writing

–Tool to teach bibliography

–Student recommendations

Annotations/Card Catalog

Reading autobiography–Our lives as readers

–Positive and negative experiences

–Thorough without rambling

–Models in Making the Match

Let’s help the kids

move from this…

To this…