1. LITERACY-BASED DISTRICT-WIDE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Aiken County Public School District January 15, 2016 LEADERS IN LITERACY CONFERENCE

2. Growing Critical Readers Through Individualized Strategies LEADERS IN LITERACY CONFERENCE

3. Essential Question: What’s the difference between being able to read, knowing how to read, and reading as a way of life? Learning Outcomes: The participants will be able to match individual comprehension strategies to individual readers. Brandee Green 4 th and 5 th Grade Aiken Elementary bgreen@acpsd.net Jennifer Minolfo 5 th Grade Aiken Elementary jminolfo@acpsd.net Amanda Auvenshine 3 rd Grade Aiken Elementary auvenshine@acpsd.net Welcome

4. The Why : Students today mistakenly think of reading as an assignment, as something you do at school. Students are missing the heart of reading. REAL READING has 2 overarching purposes that should be approached differently; yet we rarely differentiate these for our students the way we should. 1. Reading for pleasure and relaxation 2. Reading to learn and to analyze

5. Using Strategies Well Developed Skills Real World Readers Once students have developed skills, the strategies become automatic. Students then “outgrow” the need for strategies and become real world readers! It’s not about “doing” these strategies correctly, it’s really just about reaching reading GOALS! Each of these GOALS work TOGETHER TO MAKE REAL-WORLD READERS! The HOW : A Book Talk Model for Independent Reading

6. Implementing Book Talk in 3 rd Grade So what does this look like for 3rd grade Set the expectation Discuss how to find chapter books Model how to build stamina Set up your daily groups Practice the routine Make sure that students feel comfortable with reading to you

7. Implementing Book Talk in 3 rd Grade Data Collection - Evernote

8. Implementing Book Talk in 4 th Grade Data collection Ownership *Sample Data Notebook Link

9. Implementing Book Talk in 5 th Grade It looks similar to 4th and 5th grade with some variations. I use Edmodo where students are able to blog. By doing this we have established a community of readers.

11. Engagement It all starts with engagement! We tell our students to sit and read…some don’t know how. Model what real reading looks like. When do real readers read? Model being a reader in your life. Give students STRATEGIES to use to facilitate their engagement.

12. Engagement

18. Word Work How are we going to tackle words we come to when we are reading? What do students do when they come to an unfamiliar word? skip it freeze up read a nonsense word... and keep on reading What students should be doing... Decoding new words, examining word parts, noticing word parts, word Choice *Model this type of thinking.

25. Fluency Fluency really had two goals reading silently for comprehension reading out loud to an audience Six Dimensions of fluency Pausing, phrasing, stress, intonation, rate, integration So lets give students a choice on what they feel they need to work on with these different strategies.

32. Social Reading Kids are social creatures! Kids share what they love. Use thinking stems for discussions. Create reading communities. *Thinking Stems Chart

33. Social Reading

36. Grasping Plot and Setting Students should be able to: Name the big events in sequence Summarize the gist of the story Retell the story using details Name the character's feelings to explain their actions Use setting details in the summary or retelling

40. Really Get to Know Your Characters With these strategies, students will support their ideas with evidence, infer, determine importance, analyze perspective and more. The ultimate goal of these strategies is for our students to think of their characters as real people that just live in another world!

43. Theme Analysis If you can retell, understand plot and setting, dig into the characters, you are ready to analyze the themes and ideas in your story! Theme is one of the hardest skills for our students to understand. These strategies will help students use everything in the text to understand the hidden ideas and theme.

46. NONFICTION: Reading that is Focused on Learning!

47. The Why: Reading to learn should be at the heart of all instruction. Students are missing the heart of reading. REAL READING has 2 overarching purposes that should be approached differently; yet we rarely differentiate these for our students the way we should. 1. Reading for pleasure and relaxation 2. Reading to learn and to analyze

48. The How: Individualized Strategies that Require “Digging” into a text Using Strategies Well Developed Skills Real World Readers Once students have developed skills, the strategies become automatic. Students then “outgrow” the need for strategies and become real world readers! It’s not about “doing” these strategies correctly, it’s really just about reaching reading GOALS! Each of these GOALS work TOGETHER TO MAKE REAL-WORLD READERS!

49. Engagement How do teachers get their students excited about nonfiction? Get your students interested by using shared reading and read alouds.

52. Word Work Nonfiction is packed with vocabulary and it is vital for understanding. So how can we help our students learn to read and understand them? Front load Intensive instruction on context clues The three strategies for nonfiction word work are very similar to fiction they just go into more detail. You can even individualize these strategies for each student.

56. Digging IN! The heart of reading to learn is gaining knowledge. Use strategies that REQUIRE students to re- read. Re-reading alone facilitates the amount of knowledge gained. *Imagine how much more knowledge can be gained from a text if the re-reading is focused.

57. Digging IN!

62. Questions?

63. Essential Question: What’s the difference between being able to read, knowing how to read, and reading as a way of life? Learning Outcomes: The participants will be able to match individual comprehension strategies to individual readers. Brandee Green 4 th and 5 th Grade Aiken Elementary bgreen@acpsd.net Jennifer Minolfo 5 th Grade Aiken Elementary jminolfo@acpsd.net Amanda Auvenshine 3 rd Grade Aiken Elementary auvenshine@acpsd.net Thank You!