Matching the Right Book to the Reader

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How do you find the right books

for a class of readers?
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How do we match students

with books they are ready to read?

Matching a book to a child relies on:

  • 1. The student's reading proficiency and motivation
  • 2. Text difficulty and accessibility
  • 3. Your personal and professional knowledge about your students, the books and other reading material...
  • (Graves, 2007, p. 192)
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Check a student's fluency

  • wide reading-enjoyment, challenge
  • radio reading, choral reading and reader's theater

Ways to Check Fluency

  • repeated reading
  • partner reading
  • simultaneous reading
  • echo reading
  • use of commercial programs
  • tape (CD) assisted
  • a variety of programs

A textbook is not enough.

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Students need to be invested in the books they are reading.

Texts do not always sustain a reader.

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Not a single teacher has ever told us
how much their kids enjoy their textbook.
--Stephanie Harvey and Anne Goudvis (2007)

Nobody has ever come up to us clutching their textbook and raving about how they love it.

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What kind of books does an elementary or middle school student cling to...

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As teachers, we need to watch our students and their reading patterns.

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  • Do students read by choice?
  • Do they read when asked?
  • Do they enjoy reading? How do you know?
  • What books do they choose?

How do we help students choose good books?

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Conduct an informal reading inventory(IRA) -checking how a student reads to the teacher.

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Check the book and match it to the Lexile levels
(Fountas and Pinnell, 1999)

Use a readability formula such as the Fry Formula (Fry, 1977) assessing word difficulty and measure of syntax complexity.

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Measure their reading through direct observation and instead of a text...

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Why  not also use trade books to engage students?

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What can you do with a trade book that can't be done with a text book?

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Research has shown that students can benefit from the inclusion of trade books, but they must be of high quality (Morrow, Pressley, Smith, & Smith, Wigfield, & VonSecker, 2000; Fang &Wei, 2010).

To have any hope of kids investing fully in the subject matter, we have to start by evoking their curiosity and get them interested in the topic. Engaging the students can’t wait. If we wait for the fun stuff that might pop up later, the kids will have already jumped ship.”

—Harvey “Smokey” Daniels and Nancy Steineke

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Trade books—whether picture books, fiction, nonfiction, or poetry—have the potential to motivate students with intense involvement in a subject and the power to develop in-depth understanding in ways not imagined a few years ago..
Vacca and Vacca (2014) p. 345.

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Introducing Text Sets

A way to teach Concepts and not Texts
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When teachers make the transition from textbook only classrooms to multitext classrooms, the focus of study becomes concepts rather than the content of one particular book. I know of no one textbook that contains enough information to help a student become even mildly expert on any topic.
Gail Ivey (2002)

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Text sets are collections of resources from different genre, media, and levels of reading difficulty that are designed to be supportive of the learning of readers with a range of experiences and interests.

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A text set collection focuses on one concept or topic and can include multiple genres such as books, charts and maps, informational pamphlets, poetry and songs, photographs, non-fiction books, almanacs or encyclopedias.

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With text sets teachers can

gage reading at different levels.
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How do you choose the books?

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When there are so many...

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Look for award-winning

fiction and non-fiction at every level 
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Fountas and Pinnell

Good Books to look for when choosing elementary books for text sets

Debbie Diller

Also look at this for Literacy Stations
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Betsy Hearne, Choosing Books for Children

Noted Children's Librarian Powerful Reminders
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Jim Trelease

Read Aloud Handbook
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For Middle School Readers

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IGNITING A PASSION FOR READING

STEVE LAYNE
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Steve Layne's new book

IN DEFENSE OF READ-ALOUD
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Imagine

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A text set on the Titanic

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You could share a drawing

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a photo

a movie

ok maybe not this one

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In a history class, discuss how the sinking of the Titanic changed the way travel was viewed.

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You could also discuss authentic and inauthentic reports.

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Let's try it

Directions: Around the room are various texts based on your subject areas. With a partner (or two) discover the four points on your “Searching for a Possible Text Set.”

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What you are looking for:
1. Explore a concept.
2. Question an idea that you might explore with your future class.
3. Find a new perspective.
4. Seek a quote worth noting.

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What did you discover?

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The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.

Mark Van Doren, poet

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