Digesting Books: Texts & Transformations
Form
Content
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desirability*
THE CHILD
& CHOICE
feasibility*
ACCESSIBLE?
viability*
AVAILABLE?
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2000
2018
eBooks
& digital reading?
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Paleolithic cave painting of bisons from the Altamira cave, Cantabria, Spain (replica), painted c. 20,000 years ago (Solutrean). [From Wikipedia]
Drawing as a predecessor to writing
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Graphic Versions
of Prose/Text Books
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First a graphic novel, then a text novel
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First a graphic novel, then a text novel
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Graphic novels?
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Young Reader Versions
of Adult Books
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One Book, One Community?
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One Book, One Community?
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One Book, One Community?
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Memoir through adult life
Memoir through adolescence
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Related
Fiction
(adult/YA)
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Related
Fiction
(adult/YA)
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Unrelated but relevant pairing
non-fiction (adult)
&
fiction (children)
Young Readers’ Editions?
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Large Print Editions
of Childrens/YA Lit
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Thank snakes we can read….
Readers Digest: https://www.rd.com/culture/spot-camouflaged-snakes/
2009
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Large Print Editions?
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eBooks / Audio Books
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Free student access during daytime hours
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Collections that are “assigned” to students appear in their Mailbox
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AUDIO BOOKS
Tasting Station
Sign in as a student to classroom: pww7754
Pick a student “name” and look at your mailbox
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Audio books - just listen
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LINK to Neev library catalog - with a list of some of the books that are available in EPIC as plain audio books (NOT as read-along ebooks)
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EBOOKS
Tasting Station
Sign in as a student to classroom: pww7754
Pick a student “name” and look at your mailbox
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eBooks - read yourself
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Read to Me: eBooks & Audio
There is an option to have words highlighted as they are spoken.
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You can catalog a link to an Epic Collection and put it in your school catalog, e.g., Destiny.
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Links to Epic Collections can also be embedded on school/library websites, e.g., see this Libguide by Nadine Bailey when she was at the Canadian International School in Singapore.
There you will also find other examples of stories made available and more accessible via technology.
5 minutes per station
Book Tasting
Graphic Novel versions
Large Print versions
Young Readers versions
eBooks vs. pBooks
Audio and/or Text
5 minutes per station
Book Tasting
Graphic Novel versions
Large Print versions
Young Readers versions
eBooks vs. pBooks
Audio and/or Text
Think about your students
Which affordances of each format/content combo do you see as most effective
to improve
choice & access?
Other
Transformations?
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2018
Re-tellings
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Translations
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Digesting Books: Texts & Transformations