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New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the Classroom

New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the Classroom. Linda Leonard Lamme University of Florida. Reading Research Support: Factors that Influence School Success. Reading at home Reading trade books Bridging the gap between home and school Time spent reading Book Access Book quality

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New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the Classroom

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  1. New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the Classroom Linda Leonard Lamme University of Florida

  2. Reading Research Support:Factors that Influence School Success • Reading at home • Reading trade books • Bridging the gap between home and school • Time spent reading • Book Access • Book quality • Opportunities for reader response

  3. Louise RosenblattTransactional Theory • Aesthetic Reading • Creates readers • Is enjoyable • Needs book choice • Efferent Reading • Learning information • Reading Response

  4. The Roles of Children’s Books in Reading Instruction • Aesthetic • Reading at home • Reading at school for pleasure • USSR - silent reading time • Reading workshop • Efferent • Information for content areas

  5. NOT for Reading Instruction • Makes reading books efferent • Negatively impacts enjoyment

  6. Two Forms of Oral Reading • Lap Reading • Demonstrates how print works • Facilitates learning how to read • Reading Aloud • Demonstrates enthusiasm for reading • Creates a literate classroom community • Demonstrates fluent reading

  7. Lap Reading • Buddy reading • Volunteer reading • Reading at home

  8. Reading Aloud Daily • 180 Days, 180 Good Books • All genres for literary exposure • Award-winning books • Rich language • Excellent art • Accurate information • Authentic stories • DON’T read aloud what kids will read on their own

  9. When Reading AloudRead and Talk about • The title page • the title, author, and illustrator • the publisher • The verso page • date of publication • the illustration media • the dedication • Author and Illustrator notes • Endpapers

  10. Home Reading • Why? Avid readers read at home • Books go home every night K-2 • Novels and Nonfiction 3-8 • Read every night • New books every week (or day) • Reader response in classroom

  11. Book Access • All students need access to books • School library media center: liberal policy on checkouts • Classroom nightly checkout • Book clubs? • Quality of books • Funds for books

  12. Book Publishing is Political • Baker and Taylor required? • Which publishers produce mostly • High quality literature? • Multicultural literature by minority authors? • Junk? Junk literature is like junk food • It rots the mind • It panders the emotions • It misinforms

  13. Authentic Literature • Is the author of the culture in the book • Is the author writing about personal experiences? • Is the topic well-researched with sources identified? • Did the illustrator conduct research? • Clues • Dedications • Author notes

  14. American Indian Books • Resources • Oyate.org • Doris Seale & Beverly Slapin • A Broken Flute • Through Indian Eyes • Offensive Topics • Thanksgiving • Westward Movement

  15. Good Native Books • Louise Erdrich: Birchbark House (Thorndike) • Joseph Bruchac: Winter People (Dial) • Cynthia Leitich Smith: Jingle Dancer (Morrow)

  16. Designated Months • Hispanic Heritage Month? NO! • Black History Month? NO! • Share these authors all year long!

  17. Pura BelpreNarrative Vola Vanales: Tequila Worm (Wendy Lamb)

  18. Carmen T. Bernier-Grand: Cesar. Si, Se Puede! Ill. David Diaz. (Marshall Cavendish) Pam Munoz Ryan: Becoming Naomi Leon (Scholastic)

  19. Pat Mora: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart (Alfred Knopf)

  20. Pura Belprefor Illustration • Lulu Delacre: Arrorro Mi Nino: Latino Lullabies and Gentle Games (Lee & Low)

  21. Rafael Lopez: My Name is Celia: The Life of Celia Cruz (bilingual, Rising Moon) David Diaz: Cesar:Si, Se Puede (Marshall Cavendish)

  22. African American Coretta Scott King: Writing Toni Morrison: Remember (Houghton Mifflin) Shiela Moses: The Legend of Buddy Bush (Margaret K. McElderry)

  23. Sharon Flake: Who Am I without Him? (Jump at the Sun/ Hyperion) Marilyn Nelson: Fortune’s Bones (Front Street)

  24. Coretta Scott King Illustration Kadir Nelson Ellington was Not a Street by Ntozake Shage (Simon & Schuster)

  25. Jerry Pinkney, God Bless the Child using the words of Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr. (Armistad) Leo and Diane Dillon, The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton (Alfred K. Knopf)

  26. Sydney Taylor Awardfor Jewish Content

  27. Erica Silverman for Sholom’s Treasure: How Sholom Aleichem Became a Writer. Farrar, Straus & Giroux • Borden, Louise for The Journey that Saved Curious George: The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H. A. Rey. Ill. Allan Drummond

  28. International LiteratureBatchelder Award Arthur A. Levine for An Innocent Soldier by Jusef Holub (German)

  29. Phaidon Press for Nicholas by Reney Goscinny, Ill. Jean-Jacque Dempe (French) • Bloomsbury for When I Was a Soldier by Valerie Zenatti (French)

  30. Walter Lorraine Books for Run, Boy, Run by Uri Olev (Hebrew) Richard Jackson for Daniel Half Human and the Good Nazi by David Chotjewitz (German)

  31. Notable Books for a Global SocietyChildren’s Literature and Reading SIG of IRAPublished in Dragon Lode Double Crossing by Eve Tal (Cinco Puntos)

  32. Kamishibai Manby Allen Say (Houghton Mifflin)

  33. Mama Panya’s Pancakes by Mary and Rich Chamberlin, Ill. Julia Cairns (Barefoot Books) (Houghton Mifflin)

  34. I’ll Plant You a Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman (Atheneum)

  35. Hidden Child by Isaac Melman (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) A Negro League Scrapbook by Carole Boston Weatherford (Boyds Mills Press)

  36. Sawdust Carpets Amelia Lau Carling (Groundwood) The School Is Not White Doreen Rappaport Ill Curtis James (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

  37. IBBY Hans Christian Anderson Award • Outstanding Authors • Margaret Mahy • Katharine Paterson • Virginia Hamilton • Outstanding Illustrators • Anthony Browne • Quentin Blake

  38. Giverny AwardScience and Illustration Daniel and His Walking Stick by Wendy McCormick Ill. Constance R. Bergum (Peachtree)

  39. Givery Award Science and Illustration Squirrel and John Muir by Emily Arnold McCully (Farrar Straus & Giroux)

  40. ALSC Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Medal Secrets of a Civil War Submarine: Solving the Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker (Carolrhoda)

  41. ALSC Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Medal Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler’s Shadow by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)

  42. NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books • The Tarantula Scientist Sy Montgomery Ill. Nic Bishop (Houghton Mifflin) • I See a Kookaburra! Steve Jenkins and Robin Page. (Houghton Mifflin)

  43. NCSS Notable Trade Books for Young People • A Woman for President by Kathleen Krull. Ill. By Jane Dyer (Walker) • Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam Ear Orphan became an American Boy by Andrea Warren, Farrar, Straus & Giroux

  44. Caldecott • Chris Raschka for • The Hello Goodbye Window • by Norton Jester (Hyperion) • Bryan Collier for Rosa by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt) • Jon Muth for Zen Shorts (Scholastic) • Marjorie Priceman for Hot Air: The Story of the First Hot Air Balloon (Atheneum) • Beckie Prange for Song of the Water Boatman by Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin)

  45. Newbery Medal • Criss Cross by Lynne Rae • Perkins (Greenwillow) • Whittington by Alan Armstrong • Ill. By S. D. Schindler • (Random House) • Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic) • Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson Ill by Hudson Talbot (Dial)

  46. Many Awards • Orbus Pictus Award from NCTE • Children’s Choices from IRA • Teachers’ Choices from NCTE • New Author Award from IRA • Notable Books for Language Arts from NCTE • Many others

  47. Literature is NOT a TextbookSo Don’t • Test children about what they read • Read just parts of books • Read books without illustrations intact • Require all children to read the same book

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