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Using Literature across the Curriculum in Grades 7-12Thursday, June 4, 2015
Beth MaddiganEducation [email protected]://www.slideshare.net/bethmaddigan
Education Library& Commons
Reading in Junior High & High SchoolED 5000 List of School Activities that Encouraged Reading
Notes:1. “Choose a
contemporary fiction novel” CHOICE is important
2. USS should read SSS = Sustained Silent Reading
3. Forbidden City = example of a novel shared with students that had a deep personal connection for the teacher
Reading in Junior High & High SchoolED 5000 List of Internship Activities that Encouraged Reading
Reading Research
You’ve come a long way, Baby!
Young People Need:
• time• heroes• books
and…
ChoiceRoss, C. (1997). Reading the covers off Nancy Drew: What readers say about series books. Emergency Librarian, 24(5), 19.
Reading engagement trumps socioeconomic status http://www.oecd.org/edu/school/programmeforinternationalstudentassessmentpisa/33690904.pdf
School Libraries matterhttp://www.peopleforeducation.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/School-Libraries-2006.pdf
http://montreal.ctvnews.ca/lester-b-pearson-board-lays-off-18-librarians-1.2395738
Content Area Literacy https://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/literacynumeracy/inspire/research/contentLiteracy.pdf
NL Curriculum Connectionshttp://stor.mun.ca/handle/123456789/36862
http://www.mycapstonelibrary.com
Classroom toolshttp://guides.library.mun.ca/literature_education
Kids InfobitsCanadian Reference CentreNovelistTeachingBooks.net
Booktalking Dos and Don’ts
• Do share YOUR impressions • Do find your hook• Don’t recap the plot • Don’t give away the ending
Who am I?
Fred L. Worth wrote Super Trivia and other trivia books in the 1970s and inserted a single false fact to protect himself from copyright infringement.
Chris Haney & Scott Abbott designed the game Trivial Pursuit and used Mr. Worth’s books “for reference”.
Copyright forgeries, fakes, red herrings, fictions & “paper towns”
Myrna Mountweazel Lillian Virginia Mountweazel
Absolutely True Diary of a Part-time IndianBy Sherman Alexiehttp://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/sherman-alexiehttp://www.teachingbooks.net/qlf9vqe
Bridge, anyone?
Books demoed today:Totally Joe by James HoweAnastasia Krupnik by Lois LowryThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Giver by Lois LowryThe Living by Matt De la PenaPaper Towns by John GreenAbsolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman AlexieThe Cardturner by Louis Sachar
