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“Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. These windows are also sliding glass doors, and readers have only to walk through in imagination to become part of whatever world has been created and recreated by the author. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be
a mirror. Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection we can see our own lives and experiences as part of the larger human experience. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.”
-Rudine Sims Bishop
Diversity Wheels: Workplace
Diversity Wheels: Readers
How do we get
to know our readers and community in a deeper way?
@smokeylit & @sarakahmed
Identity Webs
@smokeylit - Upstanders
Identity Webs
8th grade: what my teachers saw.
Identity Webs
8th grade: what I saw.
How can we use
identity webs
to discover student reading identities?
Identity Webs
Written Conversations
Learners engage in a conversation, in writing, anchored and inspired by a specific text.
@tavia_clark
Written Conversations
Written Conversations
@christychowe
How can we use written conversations to discover student reading identities?
Written Conversations
Thumbprint Poems
Thumbprint Poems
bit.ly/2sgWw10
How can we use thumbprint poems
to discover student reading identities?
Thumbprint Poems
How can we use
extend our reach to involve families?
Reading Inventories
Virtual Suggestion Boxes
Social Media
Windows
What worlds does your community need to glimpse?
Mirrors
What aspects of your students identities do they most need to see validated and reflected?
Sliding Glass Doors
What possibilities do your students most need to believe in?
All The
Books!
Questions?
Thank You!
Link to this presentation: bit.ly/2NO5mPZ