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Motivating Young Readers in Your Classroom

Motivating Young Readers in Your Classroom. EDC423 Dr. Julie Coiro. Today’s Learning Objectives. Synthesize key ideas about motivation , classroom culture and literacy instruction Bookmarks, John Guthrie & CORI, Technology Identify the “ main idea ” vs. a “ big idea ”

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Motivating Young Readers in Your Classroom

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  1. Motivating Young Readersin Your Classroom EDC423 Dr. Julie Coiro

  2. Today’s Learning Objectives • Synthesize key ideas about motivation, classroom culture and literacy instruction • Bookmarks, John Guthrie & CORI, Technology • Identify the “main idea” vs. a “big idea” • Discuss ways to launch a book (pre-reading activity) to engage readers with the big idea (will carry over to next class)

  3. Housekeeping • Return Book Activity 2: Strategy Interview • Additional Resources on the wiki about designing your classroom community

  4. What is literacy motivation? • The reasons, purposes, and goals for reading and writing - • They are multidimensional (many levels and layers) and diverse (many reasons) • Do you like to read? Write? • Are you good at reading? Writing? • What do you read? What do you write? • Why do you read? Why do you write?

  5. Types of motivation Sweet & Guthrie, 1996 • Intrinsic motivations • Goals that are internal to the learner and guided by personal interests and private experiences (curiosity, involvement, social interaction, and challenge) • Extrinsic motivations • Goals that originate outside the learner (often guided by parents and/or teachers) - guided by points, stars, external rewards

  6. Eight distinct motivations for literacy (Sweet & Guthrie, 1996) • Involvement • Curiosity • Challenge • Social Interaction • Compliance motivation • Recognition • Competition • Work Avoidance INTRINSIC MOTIVATION Needed for Integrated instruction and self-directed learning EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION Needed for skill-building in a sequential curriculum

  7. Why is motivation important? Cornett, Ch. 6 • Intrinsically motivated readers are... • more proficient readers • more knowledgeable > higher achievers • purposeful and goal-directed • more likely to see learning as fun • willing to work hard • Motivating tasks, texts, teachers, and classroom contexts create motivated learners

  8. John Guthrie (Concept Oriented Reading Instruction) CORI MOTIVATING • Success • Thematic Reading • Choice • Relevance • Collaboration • Respect, safety, clarity, helpful • NOT MOTIVATING • Failure & no feedback • Fragmented topics • No control over choice • Hard to relate to • Only independent reading • Fear, unimportance, unwillingness to scaffold

  9. CORI In the Classroom (Grade 3 Weather Unit)

  10. My Bookmark for Chapter 6ABC…IC7Plus • Students need A, B, C’s …. • Achievement • Belonging • Control • Teachers provide IC7Plus… • Interesting topics • Choice, Control, Challenging Content, Collaboration & Community, Constructive Feedback (I see, I hear, I noticed) • Plustechnology (diverse multimedia texts)) I C 7 Plus

  11. Online Reading Locations to Motivate Young Readers There’s TONS of informational text at a reading level kids can enjoy!

  12. Identifying the Main Ideas and Big Idea and then..Launching a Book to Engage Readers with The Big Idea

  13. Motivating students with Big Ideas • Main Ideas: Summaries of key points in the text • Big Idea: An important truth or message about people and the world that is worth understanding • Linking books to big ideas emphasizes the RELEVANCE of reading for a purpose

  14. Main Idea vs. Big IdeaYou Try… • Main Idea: • Big Idea:

  15. Main Idea vs. Big Idea • Main Idea: Molly’s grandmother teaches her how to stay happy when her friends pick on her • Big Idea: Confidence and pride give you strength when things get hard • Extend, Connect, and Engage >>

  16. Main ideas – Author’s Craft

  17. What quick technique is used to draw readers in? “I know there’s a way to get the honey from comb into the jar, but I just can’t figure it out. But professional beekeepers like Dave Smith can fill a jar like this and a hundred others in no time at all!

  18. How would you launch these books with the big idea in mind?

  19. A motivating book launch should include: • Activating background knowledge • Introducing relevant vocabulary • Connecting to children’s lives • Setting a purpose related to the big idea

  20. Big Ideas and Preparing to Read • Talk about the main idea and record your ideas. • Talk about the big idea and record your ideas. • Think about both to create a launch for your text. • Write your launch ideas and prepare to share in class next time.

  21. Homework • Prepare for Book Launch (2-3 mins each) • Read Chapter 4: Assessing Learners to Plan and Differentiate Instruction • Using the Five Factors (learner, task, text, context, and teaching) for Assessment • What is Assessment for Learning and how does it relate to differentiated instruction? • ** PARTICULAR

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