Read Across the Standards with Read Across America Room N122 For Elementary & K-8 Librarians Session 2 - 9:50 – 11:15 Session :35 – 1:45 Session 4 – 1:50 – 3:00 PRESENTER – KIMBERLY SANDERSON

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Place You’ll Go… When You Read” PRESENTER – KIMBERLY SANDERSON

Norms Be present and engaged Be respectful of differences in perspective while challenging each other productively and respectively Monitor “air time” Make the most of the time we have Stay focused on students

Objectives Know: Literacy is every educator’s obligation. Every librarian has the potential to impact literacy through instruction, resources and support. Shelby County Schools has developed a Comprehensive Literacy Improvement Plan (CLIP) to accelerate literacy learning. Understand: Learned strategies can be integrated across content areas to increase student literacy. Development and implementation of high-quality programs encourage student reading and enhance literacy instruction across all grades and subjects. Digital resources are additional tools that can be used to impact student literacy. Do: Analyze literacy assessments to determine the instructional needs of their students Design activities or lessons that support Common Core Standards in literacy Obtain grants to provide high quality resources to increase literacy Provide multiple opportunities to engage in authentic literacy activities

Literacy “Look-Fors”-Content Area Literacy Clearly identified/observed literacy and language objectives for each content area lesson Research-based literacy strategies and practices implemented in lessons Students read content-specific text and respond, with evidence, to text-based questions. Students respond to text in ways that are meaningful, analytical, and authentic to the content area

POETRY (Genres) Choral Reading

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read”

These samples are simple looking but you can use them as prompts for older students to write at a higher level.

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read”

What was the land of the Lorax like before the Onceler arrived? Did it seem like someplace you'd like to live? What parts of your own environment would you be sad to see go? What kind of person is the Once-ler? Why won't he listen to the Lorax? The Lorax says to the Once-ler, “You are crazy with greed.” Why does the Lorax say that? Do you agree or disagree? Why does the Lorax speak for the trees? Why is it important to speak up for others? Have you ever spoken up for someone else? Has someone else ever spoken up for you? How does the Once-ler’s Thneed business hurt the land of the Lorax? What happens to the Swomee-swans, the Brown Bar-ba-loots, and the Humming-fish? How could things have been different if the Once-ler listened to the Lorax? What do you think the boy hearing the story will do with the Truffula seed that the Once-ler tosses to him? What would you do if you were the boy? Do you think the Lorax and his friends will come back if new Truffula Trees grow? Where do you think they have been? The Once-ler says, “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." What does the Once-ler mean? Can one person make a difference? Can you? What are some things you can do to better your own environment? How does the Once-ler feel about what his Thneed business did to the Lorax and friends? Dr. Seuss used bright colors on some pages of the book and dull colors on others. Did you notice this? Why do you think he did that? Why is THE LORAX called a cautionary tale? These are some prompts that older students can really expand.

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read” Word Searches can be used for vocabulary growth as well as a writing activity that requires students to use words on word search to write a story.

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read” Create a Venn Diagram Rhyming Words

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read” Rhyming Words Writing Displays

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read”

Dr. Seuss quotes can be used as writing/journal prompts. They can also be used as classroom decorations. Older students can also research the origin of the quotes.

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read” Recipes can be used for Writing prompts, Research, and Math activities.

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read” Students can plan a birthday party for Dr. Seuss. The age and abilities of the students can determine how detailed the plans will be. It can include shopping lists, budgets, guest list, creating an invitation. It can include… Shopping lists Budgets Guest list Creating an invitation Making decorations Games

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read” Math Activities can be made as hard or as easy as the students ability level. This activity could be use for Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division. Students can then write word problems to go along with the number problem.

2015 READ ACROSS AMERICA “Oh the Places You’ll Go… When You Read”

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-am. You do not like them, so you say. "Have you tried 24 blueberry pancakes with 48 dollops of dream whip on top of 32 green eggs and 16 ham chunks altogether," I asked. If you round these to the nearest ten and add these together, how many things would you be eating? The more things that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. If you read 25 pages in 45 minutes on Monday, 25 pages in 42 minutes on Tuesday, and 25 pages in 41 minutes on Wednesday, what is the total time in hours that you read in all 3 days? Dr. SEUSS WORD PROBLEMS Congratulations! Today is your day! You're off to Great Places traveling at 60 miles per hour. You're off and away! How many miles would you have traveled if it took you 5 hours and 30 minutes to get where you're going? The Cat in the Hat wanted to show the kids tricks. He could hold up 12 cups, 2 bottles of milk, 3 pink cakes, 1 dozen books, 1 goldfish on a purple rake. He could hold 2 toy ships and 2 dozen toy men, and with his tail he could hold a red fan. How many items were The Cat in the Hat holding all together before he fell? Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! "Maybe Christmas," he thought, "doesn't come from a store." But our presents do. At Wal-Mart I spent $ and at Toys R Us I spent $ How much more did I spend at Toys R Us? "Cause you never can tell what goes on down below! This pool might be bigger than you or I know!" If the pool is 16 feet wide and 24 feet long, what is the total perimeter in feet?