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A Community of Readers

• Increase professional voice and choice
• Build collective knowledge
• Engage everyone in joyful learning
• Demonstrate promising literacy practices

A Community of Readers

• Create buy-in for a schoolwide initiative
• Develop shared beliefs about literacy
• Build capacity for teaching readers in our classrooms

Activity: Collective Biography

Can we truly teach someone to read?

Goals for Study Groups

• Model an effective literacy strategy
• Use resources to engage in professional conversations about characteristics of high-quality reading instruction

Goals for Study Groups

• Introduce innovative tools and methods for applying new understandings
• Encourage each other to try and apply promising practices during literacy instruction

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Characteristics of a Community

• "Individuals within a group exhibiting care and concern for another as they share their work and/or become an audience for members who are sharing" (Dana & Yendol-Hoppey, 2008).

Characteristics of a Community

• "Individuals expressing a feeling of belonging to the group and the work" (Dana & Yendol-Hoppey, 2008, p. 147).

Characteristics of a Community

• "Sharing sessions ought to promote a reminder of critical importance of PLC work and teachers' engagement in inquiry,..."

Characteristics of a Community

• "...and promote a feeling that PLC members are proud to be a part of the work that the group completed" (Dana & Yendol-Hoppey, 2008, p. 147).

Activity: Self-Selected Study Groups

How to Closely Read

• Select one or more articles to read and respond to with pen in hand.
• Make connections with the text: other texts, other people, the world.
• Ask questions about what you noticed - especially "how" and "why".

Questions for Discussion

• Reflect on your students' lived experiences. What topics or themes can support their development as empowered readers and writers?

Questions for Reflection

• What strategies do you currently use to extend students' literature discussions? How might you implement book clubs and different ways to respond to support students in constructing personal and purposeful meaning from texts?

Questions for Reflection

• What do you notice about our discussions? How might you encourage students to consider difference perspectives, question assumptions, and challenge the status quo?