Book Chats

Published on Nov 02, 2016

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Book Chats

Valuing spoken journies

"Between 1996 and 2006, the average level of literacy required for all occupations rose by 14%. Both dropouts and high school graduates demonstrate significantly worse reading skills than they did 10 years ago." --Kelly Gallagher, 2009.

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Why are we not encouraging more choice reading?

Why are we not sharing more reading out loud?

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I believe each of my students must craft an individual life of challenge, whim, curiosity, and hunger, and I've discovered that it is not too late in high school to lead a nonreader to reading. It's it never too late. --Penny Kittle, Book Love, 2013

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We need teachers to become leaders--leaders who know literacy!--Steven Layne, 2015,p. 11.

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If the only thing a teacher (or student) shares is from a textbook, how are you going to get students excited about reading? --Jim Release

"The teacher needs to think about why he or she is using the book and connect it to the curriculum, to have purpose, to think about how you will introduce it to the students, " Research Albright says,...

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"You don't want to just pick up a book, read it, and then close it and more on." --Lettie K. Albright.

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Reading aloud was identified as the "single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading." (p. 23, 1985, Becoming a Nation of Readers).

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Although it is dated research, consistently reading aloud improves reading. Which begs the question...

How much reading aloud will you do with your future students?

Kevin Cordi

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