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Challenging Elementary School Readers with the SEM-R Dr. Brian Housand East Carolina University
Techie Educator Gifted Researcher
www.gifted.uconn.edu The National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented
If I were abook character, I would be… (insert your answer here)
Sally Reis Joyful Reading & the SEM - R
The SEM-R An enrichment-based reading program that seeks to increase reading achievement for all students while also addressing the pressing needs of talented readers.
Three Goals of SEM-R To increase enjoyment in reading To improve reading fluency, comprehension, and increase reading achievement To encourage students to pursue challenging independent reading
What do you need toknow to implement the SEM-R? Write your answer on a post-it… Be as specific as possible.
aliteracynoun: the quality or state of being able to read but uninterested in doing so
The 3 Voices of Aliteracy (Beers, 1996) No Time! No Interest! No WAY!
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.”-- Mark Twain
Percent of 13-year olds who are daily readers: 1/3 Less than
Among 17-year-olds, Percentage of Non-Readers: 19%
If you don’t read much,you really don’t know much. DANGER YOU ARE DANGEROUS! --Jim Trelease
Percentage of Time Spent Reading in School Study by John Goodlad in A Place Called School
On average, Americans ages 15 to 24 spend almost 2 hours Per day watching TV
"I didn't actually read the book, but I did play the video game loosely based on it."
Joyful Reading - Pg. 9 Components of the SEM-R Framework Increasing degree of student selection
Phase 1 • Exposure - Book Hooks: • High interest read alouds and higher order questions
BOOK HOOKS
Basic Book Hook • Jacket • Author information • Back cover • Illustration • Publication Information
Developing a Question • Help your students see themselves as investigators collecting evidence: • Ask open-ended questions. • Tie answers back to the text. • Modeling is a Must! • Consider creative, offbeat ideas a bonus.
Text Level ‘But though he’s helped me make sense of what’s happened, and has earned my loyalty, the entire business is so extraordinarily secretive and complicated that I’ve long been convinced I will never learn anything about my past.’
Text Level ‘The first place that I can well remember was a large, pleasant meadow. Over the hedge on one side we looked into a plowed field, and on the other, the gate to our mater’s house.’
The students have broadened their reading choices due to the fact that they have been introduced to all the genres, and many nonfiction and fiction books, that they may have never picked up.
Table Talk I know the purpose of the SEM-R is to engage kids in reading appropriately challenging material, but how do I do that within Phase 1 with so many reluctant and remedial readers?
Complexity of Ideas and Content The student, said the teacher, is crazy. The student said the teacher is crazy.
Complexity of Ideas and Content ‘Before fun was invented, people joined bell-ringing clubs. As a member at Boston’s Old North Church, Paul spent hours practicing in the belfry tower.’
Given to the most distinguished children’s informational book published in the preceding year. Text Level ‘After sitting atop a virtual bomb and traveling nearly half a million miles; after battling 1202 alarms, low fuel, and frozen fuel slugs; after walking on an airless rock; . . .’
Text Level ‘That year at Perkins had also given Helen a glimpse of her own future. She had learned about another deaf-blind boy named Tommy Stringer. Five-year-old Tommy had lived in a poor house and …’
Text Level ‘But though he’s helped me make sense of what’s happened, and has earned my loyalty, the entire business is so extraordinarily secretive and complicated that I’ve long been convinced I will never learn anything about my past.’
