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Building Book Love in a Time of Common Core State Standards
Presented by Sarah Avallone, 7th Grade Teacher, Northbrook Jr. High
Mindi Rench, Literacy Coach, Northbrook Jr. HighFind this presentation online at http://slideshare.net/mindi_r
Who informs and inspires our thinking?
Penny KittleBook Love
Donalyn MillerThe Book Whisperer
Research/Info
“I’ve Got Research, Yes I Do” by Donalyn Miller http://bookwhisperer.com/2015/02/08/ive-got-research-yes-i-do-ive-got-research-how-about-you/
“Every Child, Every Day” by Richard Allington http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/mar12/vol69/num06/Every-Child,-Every-Day.aspx
“Leisure Reading: A Joint Statement” http://www.literacyworldwide.org/docs/default-source/where-we-stand/leisure-reading-position-statement.pdf
But what about CCSS??
There are 3 measures of text complexity, as defined in the CCSS, appendix A.
Reader and Task is the base of the triangle for a reason.
What About Rigor?
Rigor does not equal hard.Rigor is not the same for each child.The thinking we ask students to do about the books they read raises the rigor even of “below level books”.
Build Reading Stamina & Book Love
Choice
Time
Read Aloud
Reading Rate & Reflections
LRC Partnerships
Conferring
Advertise Books
Choice
Buy-in
Power
Motivation
Time
Class time needs to be structured in a way that supports, offers, and encourages time for independent reading
Reading Workshop structure:
focus lesson
group practice
independent time
reflection
Read Alouds
#classroombookaday
Reading Rates & Reflections
Individualized and book specific
Student and teachers notice rate changes/trends
Trimester reflections provide time for students to see their growth as readers.
What students say about reading rate goals:
“I know my target for the week.”
“It helps me keep up with my reading.”
“It makes me read way more than I usually would do.”
LRC Partnerships
Get your students to the library!
Our LRC Gets Big Business
Average monthly circulation last school year was 1300 books!
In September of this year, our library circulated over 1800 books.
Students can check out any book in the LRC.
Books Our Kids Love
So far this year:
Drama
The Fault in Our Stars
Sisters
Legend
Weird but True: Ripped From the Headlines
Last year:
Legend
A Long Walk to Water
The False Prince
Unstoppable
One for the Murphys
Conferring
Frequent check-ins
Individualized goals that are self-selected
Encouragement
Google doc reading logs and conferring tab for both participants
Advertise Books
You are the model and have to be a reader!
“What are you reading?” signs
Book talks: whole class, book trailers, individual book recommendations, and book stacks for students
Book passes - speed book dating
Display books with covers out in classroom libraries
But my district requires a basal. Now what?
You can still incorporate independent reading. Find time - even if it’s ten minutes - to give kids time to read books of their choice. Show kids how to find reading minutes - reading while waiting in lines or for assemblies to start. We’ve had kids read while walking from class to class!
Questions?
Contact us!
Sarah Avallone, 7th Grade [email protected]
on Twitter: @savallone
Mindi Rench, Literacy [email protected]
on Twitter: @mindi_r
