Stories and Strategies for Any Age: Improving Engagement through Children's Books and Read Alouds
Strategy or Activity: Total Physical Response - Stories in Motion
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Stories and Strategies for Any Age: Improving Engagement through Children's Books and Read Alouds
Q: What in the world does engagement really mean?
A: It’s complex, multidimensional, messy and out of your control….sometimes.
Student engagement is a function of both the individual and the construct. It varies in intensity and duration.
Behavioral Engagement
focusing on participation in academic, social, and co-curricular activities
Emotional Engagement
focusing on the extent and nature of positive and negative reactions to teachers, classmates, academics, and school
Cognitive Engagement
focusing on students’ level of investment in learning
Point 1 - Clarity
No Flipgrids - No Nearpod - No Jamboard - No New Websites
No Breakout Rooms - Nothing Google (except this presentation)
Not reading entire book.
Yes to the Chat Box - Yes to Virtual Hand Raise to Share
Engagement in books, reading, takeaways and thinking.
Point 2 - Possible Fail
Point 3
A Love of Books
Why do Writers Write?
Why do Writers Write?
https://writingcooperative.com/7-reasons-why-writers-write-and-you-should-too-900262b455b
https://www.nownovel.com/blog/why-write-books-10-authors/
So teachers have ‘the perfect book’ to use when they are teaching about….
Start with an Emotional Connection
Engagement - How do we really know?
TEACHER-DIRECTED LEARNING
STUDENT-DIRECTED LEARNING
Edutopia: https://www.edutopia.org/blog/student-engagement-definition-ben-johnson
Sprinkling in a bit of Research
Reading aloud is the foundation for literacy development. It is the single most important activity for reading success.
(Bredekamp, Copple, & Neuman, 2000).
Let’s Get Started
Strategy or Activity: Keep the Count
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Titles:
There is a Bird on Your Head! by Mo Willems
Punctuation Takes a Vacation by Robin Pulver
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Strategy or Activity: What is so funny?
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Titles:
Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin
Dog Breath by Dav Pilkey
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Strategy or Activity: Wordless or Near Wordless Books - Ask What Questions
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Titles:
Journey or Quest by Aaron Becker
Tuesday by David Wiesner
Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
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Reading aloud is the foundation for literacy development. It is the single most important activity for reading success.
(Bredekamp, Copple, & Neuman, 2000).
It provides children with a demonstration of phrased, fluent reading (Fountas & Pinnell, 1996).
Strategy or Activity: Say the phrase - Unmute and Mute
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Titles:
A Little at a Time by David Adler
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Strategy or Activity: Pause and Draw or Window Pane
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Titles:
The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds
One by Kathryn Otoshi
It Might Be an Apple by Shinsuke Yoshitake
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Strategy or Activity: I Spy - Repeated Phrase in a Book
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Titles:
I Spy by Lucy Micklethwait
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Strategy or Activity: Total Physical Response - Stories in Motion
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A 1984 study by Thomas Sticht showed that a child's reading level doesn't catch up to their listening level until around 8th grade.
Strategy or Activity: Picture First - Fiction or Informational Text
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Titles:
Talented Animals by Keith Pigdon
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Strategy or Activity: What’s the Sequence? Order of Events - Sketch the Scene
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Titles:
Flower Garden by Eve Bunting*
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Listening to others read develops key understanding and skills, such as an appreciation for how a story is written and familiarity with book conventions, such as "once upon a time" and "happily ever after" (Bredekamp et al., 2000).
Strategy or Activity: The Simultaneous Reply or I-2-3 Show!
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Titles:
One of Those Days by Amy Krouse Rosenthal
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Strategy or Activity: Foldable Graphic Organizer
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Titles:
Skunks by Rose Lewis
This is the Tree by Miriam Moss
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Children can listen on a higher language level than they can read, so reading aloud makes complex ideas more accessible and exposes children to vocabulary and language patterns that are not part of everyday speech. This, in turn, helps them understand the structure of books when they read independently (Fountas & Pinnell, 1996).
Strategy or Activity: How would you say this phrase?
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Titles:
Crow Call by Lois Lowry
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“Daddy,” I ask shyly, “were you scared in the war?”
He looks ahead, up the hill, and after a moment he says, “Yes, I was scared.”
Strategy or Activity: Hidden Word
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Titles:
Have You Seen My New Blue Socks by Eve Bunting
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It reveals the rewards of reading, and develops the listener's interest in books and desire to be a reader (Mooney, 1990).
Strategy or Activity: Zoom In! - Close Reading
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Titles:
The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Journey or Quest by Aaron Becker
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Strategy or Activity: Bring a Friend or Go and Ask
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Titles:
Knuffle Bunny by Mo Willems
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Strategy or Activity: In Your Room
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Titles:
Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown
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Research shows effective read alouds to be those where students are actively involved in the story and story telling rather than simply listening (Dickinson, 2001). It increases Vocabulary (Hargrave & Senechal, 2000), Comprehension (Van de Broek, 2001) and Concept Development (Wasik & Bond, 2001)
Strategy or Activity: Pick Compelling Stories - Discuss - Up, Down, Both
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Titles:
Name Jar by Yangsook Choi
Each Kindness by Jacqueline Woodson*
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Paper Bag Princess by Robert Munsch
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“The read aloud is like the Swiss Army knife of literacy; it has multiple uses at every age and in every content area.” ASCD, Why Every Class Needs Read Alouds, Laura Varlas.
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Influences
Lisa Stone
Joy Verbon
ASFM Teachers and Admin Team
https://www.prodigygame.com/in-en/blog/student-engagement-strategies/
Edutopia
Cult of Pedagogy podcast
Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey
Children’s Literature Class
Damn Good Authors!
Stories and Strategies for Any Age: Improving Engagement through Children's Books and Read Alouds
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