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NCSLMA 2013Sarah Frazier & Amy Heldreth

Harold E Winkler Middle School Concord, NC

Our Shared Philosophy

We will try anything, without apologies, to get a student to

read, learn, and grow.

Everything we do is for our kids.

The Catalyst

• Over-whelmed teachers• Frustrated students• Over-worked school librarian (or the popular

title of the day)

The Underwear Drawer

Our County’s Approach

• Reader/ Writer’s Workshop model L.7.1 (conventions demonstrated through jots and projects)

• Lucy Calkins Calendar• Five big sections which scaffold to

acheive RL.7.10 (reading more complex texts)

Section 1 – Launching Goals

Finding Just Right BooksHaving a Literary Conversation RI.7.2, SL.7.1Building Stamina & becoming a better readerMaking Connections SL.7.2Cite Textual Evidence RL.7.1, RI.7.1Big Ideas and Themes RI.7.2

Prezi at orientation

• http://prezi.com/dg2c88n57vpb/?utm_campaign=share&um_medium=copy

NC Wise Owl for book selection

Read alikes

Better Displays

More great displays

NC Wiseowl for Book Displays!

NC Wiseowl for Book Displays!

Destiny Lists

Destiny Lists

I don’t know what to read!

• The Ugly book hunt• The Fortune teller• The Name game• Read the rainbow• Read alike papers

Into the catalog

Have you checked your 650 and 655 tags lately?

A wise woman once said…

‘Meet the needs of your users.’Bea Kovacs

Cataloging Blasphemy

I use the 690 tag for the benefit of my students and 658 for the benefit of my teachers and my sanity.

OMG!

OMG! Kid only recommendations.Place the box beside the book return. Then place them on a special book cart or shelf.

Section 2 – Characters & Series• What influences characters? RL.7.3• How does a character change?

RL.7.3• What can a character’s

environment, actions, dialogue, and favorite things tell us? RL.7.3

• How does the character’s development contribute to the bigger ideas? (Inferring) RL.7.2

The Series Book

Playing in the records

It’s time to play in the 490 field

Campamifiz

Dear Capamifiz,

I am getting in trouble at school all the time. I have dyslexia and ADD and I just can’t seem to follow the rules. It’s not always my fault thought. I’m seeing monsters around every corner, monsters that I thought were only myths. My mom’s tried putting me in different private schools, but I keep getting kicked out. On top of all this, my dad is MIA. My mom says he’s a great guy, but I wouldn’t know it. Please help me figure out a way to just be a normal kid who doesn’t get in trouble. 

Yours Truly,Trouble Teen

But they were not coming…

Time for staff development

Section 3– Non-Fiction & Research

• Differences between Narrative and expository SL.7.2

• Subgenres• Text Aids• Hybrid Text• Detecting Bias RI.7.8, RI.7.9, SL.7.3

An attempt at multi-media

So that spawned…

Bias

http://www.umich.edu/~newsbias/index.html

Vs.

Text Aids

Section 4 – Complex Text (Historical Fiction) L.7.4

• Which parts are fact and which are fiction? RL.7.9

• How do we use historical clues?• What emotions does the author

want to elicit?• How do literary elements,

especially setting interact to shape the text? RL.7.3

Historical Fiction

To 12 year olds everything is history. Here are the clues we worked on:

Mode of transportationDressRole of minorities or femalesEntertainmentOccupationsTechnology

Historical Fiction Virtual Help Box

Dictionary – www.m-w.comThe Great Stink www.choleraandthethames.co.uk/cholera-in-london/the-great-stink/Girls and poverty in Victorian England www.theepicrat.com/2010/03/get-scoop-on-ys-lee.htmlLascars & the East India Company www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/lascar_lives_and_the_east_india_company.pageLimehouse www.portcities.org.uk/london/server/show/ConNarrative.127/chapterId/2613/Chinese-in-the-Port-of-London.html

Historical Fiction Eras

• Trapped between the Lash and the Gun by Whitmore

• Fallen Angels by Myers• Witch Child by Rees• Someone Named Eva by Wolf• Pink and Say (Civil War)

Section 5 – Poetry• What is figurative language?

RL.7.4• What is the difference between

literary devices and sound devices? L.7.5.A

• Why are words more important in poetry than in narratives? L.7.5

• What do we learn when we dig between the words? RL.7.5

The One book Amy uses

Let’s not forget

Lyrics to songs

Figurative Language

• Sound Devices or Literary Devices– Alliteration– Rhyme– Onomatopoeia– Rhythm– Assonance

- Personification- Simile- Metaphor- Allusion-Allegory-Idiom

Book Spine Poetry

Found Poems

Remember….

There is no magic book…

But there are cake mix teachers

Blogs (To view or send your teachers to)

Amy’s Favorite Picture books

Must have books – not picture

Scieszka - Guys Read Funny, Thriller, Sports Page, & Other Worlds

Amy’s Top books

Sarah’s Favorites