Welcome to LS 585

Introductions

Who are you?

Where are you?

What are you?

How are you?

WifeMother and Grandmother

TeacherProfessor

WriterReader

Motorcyclist

Wife to Henry

Cali

Natalie

Scout and Rocky

Author

Reading LaddersHeinemann

Required Text and Readings

Assignments

Reading autobiography

Textbook discussions

Annotated Bibliography

Social Networking

Reflective Essay

Contact me

lis_tsl@shsu.edudoctorl@shsu.edu

See me blog

LS5385blog.blogspot.com

Some related items of interest:

TExES

Portfolio

Scholarships

Wiki

Expectations for LS Students

This is a graduate class and will take a great deal of time and effort.

You are expected to be able to use Blackboard.

If you encounter difficulties, contact me.

You need to check email and Bb during the week.

You need to meet deadlines.

You need to be professional in your communications.

Things to Keep in Mind

Do’s and Do not’s

Do Check email regularly Ask questions Check grades Become familiar with

Bb and its features

Do not Ask for verification of

receipt of assignments Send assignments any

place but Bb Fail to come to class Turn in work late

A quick tour….

•Know the kids

•Know the books

•Know the strategies

Knowing the Kids

•Culture

•Developmental aspects

•Gender Differences

•Reluctant vs. Avid

WHAT ARE THE VARIOUS ASPECTS OF YA CULTURE?

POP CULTURE

RELATIONSHIPS

SCHOOL

HOME

Knowing the Readers

Educational Psychology

Pavlov

Skinner

Piaget, take 1

Piaget, take 2

Gender Differences

Girls Want…

Female main character Intimate setting Internal character development Short time frame

Girl oriented covers

Guys want…

Male main character Exotic settings Long time spans External character development

Guy Oriented Covers

SOME OTHER FACTORS

1. When I check out a book, I'd rather get a: Paperback 304 = 14% Hardback 512 = 24% It doesn't matter 1345 = 62%

•Don’t forget the oldies but goodies•Learn how to narrow from the newbies

•Read outside of your own comfort zone

Other never fail titles

Watsons Go to Birmingham, 1963 Drive By or Party Girl-Lynne Ewing Harris and Me or Schernoff Discoveries Forged by Fire or Tears of a Tiger Monster

Secrets of the Librarian

Review journals School Library Journal Horn Book Book List VOYA

Reading outside the comfort zone

Book talk that is purposeful and personal

Efferent----------------Aesthetic

Carry away information at one end Reading for the sheer enjoyment/satisfaction at

the other end Many places in between

Read to thembySteven Layne

Read to them.

Before the time is gone and stillness fills the room again. Read to them.

What if it were meant to be that you were the one, the only one, who could unlock the doors and share the magic with them? What is others have been daunted by such scheduling demands, district objectives, or one hundred other

obstacles?

Read to them.

Be confident Charlotte has been able to teach them about friendship and Horton about self worth. Be sure the Skin Horse has been able to deliver his message.

Read to them.

Let them meet Tigger, Homer Price, Aslan, and Corduroy; take them to Oz, Prydain and Camazotz. Show them a Truffalo Tree.

Read to them.

Laugh with them at Soup and Rob, and cry with them when the Queen of Terabithia is forever lost. Allow the Meeker family to turn loyalty, injustice, and war into something much more than a vocabulary lesson.

What if you were the one, the only one, with the chance to do it?

What if this is the critical year for even one child?

Read to them.

Before the time, before the chance, is gone.