Exploding Some Myths

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Exploding Some Myths Getting on T-A-R-G-E-T
with Reading

• Teri S. Lesesne
• Sam Houston State University

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To the woman (we think youre a teacher) with the
books on the 2 train

• By some anonymous students

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Read it online _at_ Stenhouse.com
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Myths of Reading
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Myth 1

• Kids must read only good books and not be
  permitted a chance to read popular books.

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Myth 2

• Readability levels (lexiles, reading levels,
  etc.) are a good way of matching kids to books

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4.4
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5.5
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IL 3-6 grade
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Some Readability Levels

• Fallen Angels and Make Way for Ducklings
• 4.2
• Live of Pi, Huckleberry Finn, Secret Life of Bees
• 5.0

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What about lexiles?

• Cannot lexile poetry
• Cannot lexile drama
• Lexiles are as flawed as reading levels
• Here are some examples

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5th grade level 730 lexile
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Myth 3

• Kids will learn on their own to distinguish
  between good literature and bad literature.

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Myth 4

• Once kids are independent readers, we do not need
  to use strategies such as reading aloud and
  paired and shared reading.
• Giles and Gibbs research K-12
• Having a teacher read aloud
• Lesesne research
• audiobooks

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Great in Audio

• Gregor and the Warmbloods
• Fantasy audio helps with pronunciation
• Nightjohn
• Dialect
• Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing
• Sentence structure and vocabulary

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Myth 5

• One size fits all
• Canned reading programs
• Grade level lists
• Required reading lists
• The canon

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T A R G E T-ingReaders
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T is for TRUST
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A is for ACCESS
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R is for RESPONSE
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G is for GUIDANCE
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Reading Ladders

• Taking readers from where they ARE to where we
  would like them to BE one step at a time

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Logan, Benedict, Professor Wordsworth
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E is for ENTHUSIASM
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T is for TEEN APPEAL
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BabyMouse!
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• Reading
• Reading aloud
• Booktalking

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Reading
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Littlest Fastidious Thin Eldest John
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Murray Nikki Sheriff Gates
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Liesel WW II Munich Death
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Reading Aloud
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Booktalking
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Read to thembySteven Layne

• Read to them.
• Before the time is gone and stillness fills the
  room again. Read to them.

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What if it were meant to be that you were the
one, the only one, who could unlock the doors and
share the magic with them? What is others have
been daunted by such scheduling demands, district
objectives, or one hundred other obstacles?
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Read to them. Be confident Charlotte has been
able to teach them about friendship and Horton
about self worth. Be sure the Skin Horse has
been able to deliver his message.
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Read to them. Let them meet Tigger, Homer Price,
Aslan, and Corduroy take them to Oz, Prydain
and Camazotz. Show them a Truffalo Tree.
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Read to them. Laugh with them at Soup and Rob,
and cry with them when the Queen of Terabithia is
forever lost. Allow the Meeker family to turn
loyalty, injustice, and war into something much
more than a vocabulary lesson.
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What if you were the one, the only one, with the
chance to do it? What if this is the critical
year for even one child? Read to them. Before
the time, before the chance, is gone.
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