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Title: Learning Disabilities and the K-12 Reluctant Reader: Motivating Johnny to Read


1
Learning Disabilities and the K-12 Reluctant
Reader Motivating Johnny to Read
  • Mary M. Silgals, MLIS

2
Who are these reluctant readers?
Children who are intelligent and interested in
reading, but don't read well
3
Who are these reluctant readers?
Children who seem to have no interest, and since
they do not read regularly, are falling, or at
risk of falling, behind
4
Who are these reluctant readers?
The I do not like to read child who reads
well but has little interest in reading and will
often tell you so
5
Majority of our students
Children who are dealing with specific learning
problems that impede their ability, and
willingness, to read
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The Big Question
  • How should teachers, librarians, and parents
    respond to students who have little motivation to
    read and who therefore do not ask for guidance?

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The Answer
  • Know the students, know the books, and seek
    creative ways to connect the two.

8
Strategies
  1. Get to know your reader
  2. Select materials that excite
  3. Involve parents
  4. Choose creative activities

9
1. Know Your Readers
  • Know their reading levels/interest levels
  • Talk to the student (handout questionnaire)
  • Look at the student reading scores
  • Talk to previous teachers
  • Review library check-outs if available
  • Review RC or AR records if available

10
Know your reader
  • Know their frustration level Sample the book
    with them for readability
  • 5 finger test Read a page without missing 5
    words. Read a page and summarize it.
  • Goldilocks Rule Not too easy,
  • not too hard,
  • but just right
  • Know their staying power
  • - thin book vs. thick book
  • - Harry Potter vs. ?

11
Know your teen readers
  • Teen survey
  • Find out what movies the students watch, and lead
    them to books that deal with similar themes or
    topics.
  • Based on the Book web site 1,200 titles

12
Answer to I dont know what I like to read
  • Introduce them to the genres
  • SCASL State lists such as the Book Award
    Nominees (See handouts)

13
Discus What Should I Read Next?
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2. Give them a choice!
  • Series
  • For many children, collecting, borrowing and
    reading series books is cool.
  • Recognizing an author and his/her style

15
Comic Books/Graphic Novels
  • Educators call them sub-literature
  • Reluctant readers call them Favorites
  • See list of recommended titles on handout
  • Sunday Newspaper Comics is a good place to start
  • Check out the designated level

16
Audio Books
  • The road to becoming a reader begins with
    listening to stories read aloud
  • YALSA Selected Audio Books
  • ALA Notable Childrens Recordings

17
Assistive technology
  • Reading Penshttp//www.quick-pen.com/readingpen-b
    asic.shtml
  • Kurzweil Reading and Writinghttp//www.kurzweiled
    u.com/files/K300020V1020Datasheet.ƒ.pdf
  • TextHelp Read and Write Goldhttp//www.texthelp.c
    om/webfiles/US20RWG81WinFlyerFinal_030807.pdf

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Give them a choice!
  • Non-fiction vs. fiction
  • Nonfiction is generally visual thus it can help
    reluctant readers make the connection between an
    idea and the written word
  • DK Non-Fiction

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Give them a choice!
  • Magazines Scholastic choices for the reluctant
    reader
  • Beyond the subscriptions
  • Skateboarding
  • Fishing
  • Surfing
  • Classic cars/Hot rods
  • Golfing (Not the standard football, basketball,
    baseball coverage)

20
Give them a choice!
  • Heaven forbid you give them a classic to read!!!!
  • Adapted classics
  • Pearson Globe

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Give them a choice!
  • Poetry, plays, prose, chat-style books, short
    stories, essays -- give them a book that they
    didnt know counted as a book.
  • Drop your prejudices!! Chicken soup for the soul
    (Short Stories) or Chicken soup for the Librarian
    who is tired of Chicken soup.

22
Give them a choice!
  • Banned books - Participate in the ALA banned book
    week. This year was September 29October 6, 2007
  • Number one banned book in 2005 was the Bible
    (OCLC Online Computer Library Center )
  • Huckleberry Finn
  • Don Quixote
  • Koran
  • Tom Sawyer
  • Arabian Knights
  • Gullivers Travels
  • Canterbury Tales
  • Scarlet Letter
  • Leaves of Grass

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Give them something different!
  • Reading A-Z (interactive books on websites
    subscription/samples free) http//www.readinga-z.c
    om/newfiles/preview.html
  • Headsprout www.headsprout.com (subscription)
  • Book Adventure www.bookadventure.org (free)
    Create reading lists and earn prizes/points after
    taking a quiz. (Sylvan)
  • I-Pod Books - http//etext.lib.virginia.edu/ebooks
    / Free downloadable 2,100 books for Microsoft
    reader or Palm reader
  • Project Gutenberg - http//www.gutenberg.org/wiki/
    Main_Page
  • See handouts

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High Interest/Low Level Books
  • See Handouts

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3. Parental involvement
  • By Joyce Melton Pagés, Ed.D. (Handout)
  • 1.  Set-up a family library or a children's
    library. 
  • 2.  Give children's books as gifts.   
  • 3.  Establish a family silent reading time.  
  • 4. Visit the library and check-out books on a
    regular basis.  Go to bookstore and library story
    times. Library Card!
  • 5.  Read to your children

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Parental involvement
  • 6.  Help your child find books related to his/her
    interests and hobbies.
  • 7.  Subscribe to a children's magazine (in your
    child's name)
  • 8.  Help your child locate books with characters
  • that are his/her age or in his/her grade in
    school. 
  • 9.  Allow children to choose their own
  • books. 
  • 10.  Have your child keep
  • a record of his/her reading. 

27
Parental Involvement
  • Special occasions and gift giving
  • Bean bag chair
  • Boxed book set of a series
  • Bookmark that reflects childs interest
  • Word of the day calendar
  • Fun reading lamp (flashlight)
  • Activity books

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4. Choose Creative Activities
  • Back to the question What do you like to read?
  • Conduct a student survey
  • Introduce books from all the different genres
  • When all else fails Incentive programs
  • What to read next? Discus database

29
Teachers involvement
  • READ the books! Booktalk!
  • Dont get stuck in the 60s!
  • Try something new!
  • Podcasts
  • Writing reviews
  • Amazon
  • Teen read web site
  • School paper
  • School web site or discussion board
  • Book Clubs

30
Teacher involvement
  • Poetry
  • Read aloud and audio
  • Variables
  • Three Little Pigs
  • Cinderella
  • Little Red Riding Hood

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Topics young students love
  • See Handout

32
Choose Creative Activities
  • Participate in a D.E.A.R. Day

33
Puppets
  • Let the puppet read. Its the puppets mistake
    if it mispronounces a word.

34
Author Visits
  • Talk to local authors.
  • Visit their book signings
  • Often they will appear free.

Julie McLaughlin, author, and Ann Marie McKay,
illustrator, visited lower school students to
present their newest collaboration, Mr. Gator's
Up the Creek.
K-5 students gathered in the library to hear
Christi Sanford talk about the process by which a
book is written and published. She read her
three books about Legare, the Lowcountry Lizard.
35
Flat Stanley
36
Incentives
  • Baseball cap with badges
  • Posters with students photo
  • Pencils
  • Wrist bands
  • Check out incentive catalogs

37
Strategies
  1. Get to know your reader
  2. Select materials that excite
  3. Involve parents
  4. Choose creative activities
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