What a lovely Saturday morning at #BookCampPD I am Meredith Johnson, your moderator and I am thrilled to welcome our guest authors @AnnieTWard and @Stephharvey49 who wrote "From Striving to Thriving." Please welcome them and introduce yourself.
#BookCampPD 🙋‍♀️Kasey, Literacy Coach supporting Keller ISD, we have a group of dedicated teachers reading this summer, our last chapter is next week, teachers have been transformed!
Q1. What aspect of the book, "From Striving to Thriving" do you think was most helpful in increasing your knowledge about growing confident, capable readers? What aspect do you want to share with your team once school begins? #BookCampPD
Q1. What aspect of the book, "From Striving to Thriving" do you think was most helpful in increasing your knowledge about growing confident, capable readers? What aspect do you want to share with your team once school begins? #BookCampPD
A1. Table the Labels spoke to me. These five steps may sound easy but some of them require huge change (growth mindset) in language and interacting with students. #BookCampPD
#BookCampPD 🙋‍♀️Kasey, Literacy Coach supporting Keller ISD, we have a group of dedicated teachers reading this summer, our last chapter is next week, teachers have been transformed!
A1 Collaborating with @stephharvey49 on #FromStrivingtoThriving crystallized for me the vital importance of closing the knowing-doing gap around volume by ensuring that every reader has abundant access, choice, and time to read each and every day! #BookCampPD
#BookCampPD A1 Overall redefining struggling readers as Striving readers, we truly will never see or think of them the same way! The new lens along with the immediate applicable tools is a game changer for serving our readers and transforming them to thrives!
A1. I think tabling the labels is perhaps the most important theme in the book. If we don’t believe in all kids, in the end nothing else really matters #bookcamppd
A1. Table the Labels spoke to me. These five steps may sound easy but some of them require huge change (growth mindset) in language and interacting with students. #BookCampPD
A1: Change the book change the reader - every interaction a reader has impacts the fabric of their reading lives and as teachers, we have countless opportunities to influence that fabric #bookcamppd
A2. Not spending too much time on one strategy. Demonstrate how to use the strategy outside of the text before showing them how to use it while reading. pg 175 #BookCampPD
ELL shouldn’t be a label either! Just because Ss are learning a language, or growing as readers, labeling just stigmatizes them and it’s very difficult to get out of that hole #BookCampPD
The most helpful: Part II Teaching. It really gave me insight that I was doing a lot of things right when it comes to readers, but there were still great tools to make me a better https://t.co/g0Et7P5KFi share: the ways to advocate! #fromstrivingtothriving#bookcamppd
A2 To the extent possible, let's focus our teaching on high-utility strategies for the text(s) kids are actually reading. E.g., teach how to navigate heads and subheads when they're reading NF. (Let's not give kids flippers when they're going mountain climbing.) #BookCampPD
A2: background knowledge is important... many books assume prior knowledge or the quick ability to make detailed inferences. Also, for ELLs, point out colloquial English, slang, words in different dialects, etc. #BookCampPD
A2 Teaching science, I use a lot of close reading strategies to try to reach all my learners. I also have a great classroom library, if I do say so myself. :) #bookcamppd#choicematters
The newest research on comprehension instruction shares that knowledge building is the next frontier I Reading teaching and that taking action is an important goal of reading teaching. Cervetti and Pearson #bookcamppd
A2: Instruction should be purposeful & highly-intentional => the strategies we are arming readers with need to match the text and each individual reader! #bookcamppd
Step #4 is very important! If we really take the time to know our students as individuals, than we’ll realize that no label is necessary to intentionally support him/her #BookCampPD
#bookcamppd Like all things, “how are labels used?” Kids need to receive services & be identified, but how can we keep the focus on the kid & not the labels?
A2 Comprehension strategies are the striving reader’s super power. They help to hurdle the background knowledge gap and strivers are more likely to meet unfamiliar words and ideas when reading
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#BookCampPD A2 Another thought is to be cautious of strategy overkill! I think in this case less is more, just enough access points, self monitoring strategies, sprinkled with some comprehension strategies they can apply independently and proficiently across any text.
Q3Dick Allington shared, "We fill struggling readers days w/ tasks that require little reading. If we want to foster reading development, then we must design lessons that provide opportunities for them to actually read." What can we do so students reach out for books? #BookCampPD
A2: Good morning #BookCampPD ! on my way to Cape for family vaca. We have to explicitly teach Ss all of the strategies & teach them that some work better in certain parts/kinds of text than others. Give them lots of practice to share what strategy they used & why it helped.
I have vivd memories of being in the "Little Duck Dance" reading group in 1st grade - everyone receiving the same instruction on the same pages and just wanting to read ANYTHING else! Choice matters! #bookcamppd
A2 Teaching science, I use a lot of close reading strategies to try to reach all my learners. I also have a great classroom library, if I do say so myself. :) #bookcamppd#choicematters
A3 Audit classroom library collections to ensure all readers have legitimate choices. On pp 89-92 of #FromStrivingtoThriving we show data from my district revealing collections were skewed very high, leaving many of our striving readers in de facto book deserts. #BookCampPD
A3 We need to make books available to Ss! A wide range of genre, authors, diversity, characters...it's a huge responsibility to recommend books for kids who are striving but SO WORTH IT! #BookCampPD
A2: The one-strategy for all doesn’t work!
Conference for a couple of minutes while Ss are reading and annotate what strategy they need.
Best thing is proving plenty of opportunities for Ss to READ — and read diverse text!! #BookCampPD
A2 They need time to read and texts that engage them. Ss need more space to experience being a reader. Strategies need to be authentically used in order to truly learn how to use them. #BookCampPD
A3 Text choice matters enormously. @Stephharvey presents kids with several irresistible choices in which to apply the strategies she's modeled. #BookCampPD
ELL shouldn’t be a label either! Just because Ss are learning a language, or growing as readers, labeling just stigmatizes them and it’s very difficult to get out of that hole #BookCampPD
A3: We can design lessons that connect students to topics that matter to them. The wonder wall or wonder journals can help guide us as teachers! #bookcamppd#fromstrivingtothriving
#BookCampPD A3 Immerse them! Book displays, book talks, book stacks, if you like-then you’ll like-, get them hooked on a series, know their interests and use book ladders to widen their choices and abilities. Ensure they see themselves in the books on your shelf!
A3: we have to share that we are readers, too. We have to allow Ss to share their interests & help them to select books that will grow their interest. We have to read aloud A LOT. We have to have BIG classrm libraries w/ diverse characters, topics and genres. #BookCampPD
Q4. As you think about beginning another year with striving readers, what would you like to learn more about to help guide them, that Annie and Stephanie might be able to steer you toward a resource that would help? #BookCampPD
A2: Getting to know your students and observing their reading. Using the miscue analysis form from the text. Building trust with students before you work to transform them. #bookcamppd#fromstrivingtothriving
A3: I was fortunate to collaborate with our librarian when purchasing new titles for our school library. Purchased current and diverse titles which will appeal to all Ss but especially striving readers. #BookCampPD
Help Ss find texts that matter to them - socially relevant and meaningful. Check out this Ss reading memoir, which reflected on her year as a reader and highlights the books that focused on different persepctives! https://t.co/6UzrcFBAC9#bookcamppd
A3: herein lies the problem. Guaranteed I'll get in trouble if kids read for 30 mins straight in a 45 min period. But reading for 10 mins and doing group work and sharing out doesn't always work. As a kid we had DEAR time. If I do that now I'll be rated ineffective. #BookCampPD
Q3Dick Allington shared, "We fill struggling readers days w/ tasks that require little reading. If we want to foster reading development, then we must design lessons that provide opportunities for them to actually read." What can we do so students reach out for books? #BookCampPD
A2 #bookcamppd true but what is happening now is that to many activities are called strategies. A small package of strategies are essential for strivers or they will have difficulty making sense when the text gets tough.
#BookCampPD A2 Another thought is to be cautious of strategy overkill! I think in this case less is more, just enough access points, self monitoring strategies, sprinkled with some comprehension strategies they can apply independently and proficiently across any text.
It is wonderful having the online opportunity to learn with our guest authors @Stephharvey49 and @AnnieTWard
The thoughtful tweets from all of you participating are greatly appreciated!
#BookCampPD#PLN YOU ROCK!
Thank you!!! Literacy leaders need to make books -quality, diverse, and engaging books a priority in the budget. Texts are our most important instructional tool. If we want lifelong readers we need to put books in the budget!! #BookCampPD
Yes! I learned the hard way that it is VERY important to involve others when selecting books. The Native American coordinator was key when selecting books. #BookCampPD
We don't let kids read for extended periods of time - especially in high school - because it doesn't look like instruction. But we must finish X book in 4 weeks. By reading it for 10-15 mins a day. This is mind boggling to me. #BookCampPD
A4 I'd like to see all content Ts working on strategies w/in their disciplines. How do you get Ts to shift mindset that we are all reading teachers no matter grade lvl or content? #BookCampPD
Exactly! I read a LOT of #kidlit so I can personally recommend a book or series to a student. It also helps me build relationships w/ them. #BookCampPD
A3: we have to share that we are readers, too. We have to allow Ss to share their interests & help them to select books that will grow their interest. We have to read aloud A LOT. We have to have BIG classrm libraries w/ diverse characters, topics and genres. #BookCampPD
Next Saturday, Rachelle Dene Poth, @Rdene915 will be our guest moderator! Please join us to discuss being professionally driven. No worries if you haven't read the book, learning with each other is what matters!! #BookCampPD
