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Enticing Reluctant Readers (Including ELLs) to Read. Presenter: Frances Gabor, PhD ESOL Dept. Chair/Independent Studies Teacher New Dominion Alternative Center. New Dominion Alternative Center Independent Studies :. Reader’s Notebook. DEAR : D rop E verything A nd R ead. Read Aloud.
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Enticing Reluctant Readers (Including ELLs) to Read Presenter: Frances Gabor, PhD ESOL Dept. Chair/Independent Studies Teacher New Dominion Alternative Center
New Dominion Alternative CenterIndependent Studies: • Reader’s Notebook DEAR: Drop Everything And Read • Read Aloud • Literacy Activities
How do youHOOK a reluctant reader? PERSONAL TIME CONNECTION SHARE ACCEPTANCE CHOICE CHALLENGE CONVERSATION FUN ACCOUNTABILITY
Personal OWN IT! • INDIVIDULATI CHOICE PERSONAL
Time • Time DEAR: Drop Everything And Read • DEAR PROCEDURE • Sit down quietly at assigned seat • Take out your DEAR BOOK • (If you do not have your DEAR book, get a magazine) • READ QUIETLY until directed to stop • (about 10 min) • Record the page you are on in your READER’s NOTEBOOK: Reading Log • Wait quietly for day’s instructions
Acceptance Individual Background Knowledge Interest To improve reading = READ!
LEXILE LEVELS Grade Reader Measures, Mid-Year 25th percentile to 75th percentile (IQR) 1 Up to 300L 2 330L to 700L 4 445L to 810L 5 565L to 910L 6 665L to 1000L 7 735L to 1065L 8 805L to 1100L 9 855L to 1165L 10 905L to 1195L 11 and 12 940L to 1210L
Choice Use www.lexile.comto find lexile of a book
Conversation Personal “Special Time” Share Acceptance Choice Connection
Challenge & Accountability • Reader’s Notebook • Reading Log • Reading Conferences • Reading Response • Other: Mini Lessons, Vocabulary, etc. • Two students want or read the same book • Recommendations by others • Immediate 10 min DEAR= prize for raffle (winter holiday) • Banned Books challenge: “Can’t read”
Other & FUN • Achieve3000 • At lexile level, search topics of choice • Non-fiction good for background knowledge (all students, ELLs especially) • Prizes, recognition and incentives (Achieve3000 badges, points, prizes; whole school announcements & prizes; classroom recognition, points & grade) • All students required daily • Importance is amount and improvement ONLY • Read Aloud • No Stress • Example of good reading, asking questions/clarifying information • Make it real- “See it”, “Hear it”, “Touch it”, “Taste it”, “Feel it” • Hunger Games (before movie): Action packed, fast moving, upcoming movie, connect with own life/history/politics/geography • Had a lottery • Locate on a districts on a map • Make up, costumes, actors, “beauty/show” (make up, clothes, tatoos, money) • Reality shows (what’s real or for the audience?) • Video clips as they came out • Before We Were Free: Geography, violent history, based on truth, Latino culture, Spanish language, video clips/historical research/food & drink, personal accounts • Researched and presented 1960 US and Dominican Republic culture, politics • Google earth • Trujillo and Mirabal Sisters • Drank Guava Juice • Learning Spanish vocabulary (cognates, prefix/suffix/Latin roots? • I lived there, my kids went to the school, my husband worked at the embassy; 3 students with DR family, 1/3 of population Latino • Independent Literacy Activities • Banned/Challenged Books-- September • Author Study-- Brochure • Book Share– ANY WAY! Game, Video, Art, Drama, Diorama
References • Thank you to Cedar Point E.S. for the template of their Reader’s Notebook from which this one was created • Allison, Nancy. Middle School Readers: Helping Them Read Widely, Helping Them Read Well. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2009. Print.