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A1: I survey my Ss to find out their interests. I take a new survey each marking period b/c their interests change all the time. Also, I read to them and we talk about books they like or don't like. #preservicelit#ReadersAreLeaders
A1: The best way to learn about our readers is to let them read and read often. Lean into the process to listen, observe, take notes and confer. #preservicelit
A1: Learn from a variety of perspectives: listen to reading, talk about books, share responses in a reading community, ask questions and listen to students. #preservicelit
Good morning, I am Katie Connell and I am a graduate student UAlbany studying education and literacy #UAELTL655. This is my first #PreserviceLit and I’m excited to be here!
Good morn, #preservicelit I'm Suzanne and I'm a teacher educator at Kansas State University. As a classroom teacher and reading teacher, I've taught K-12. @DrLoriLevin@sherbev
The culture is so important! I was able to hear @donalynbooks speak at LFA and was reminded just how important this work is: time, access, choice and community! #preservicelit
A1: Talk to your readers, find out what their interests are when they read, what they read, and how much they read. Listen to them and observe their actions while reading. #preservicelit
A1: Take a look at this @Scholastic Top Teaching Blog on how Alycia Zimmerman gets to know her students. I love the reading confessionals and show and tell ideas! #preservicelithttps://t.co/HRxOn1qd8E
A1 Having conversations with our students and making sure to truly listen to what they have to say is a great start! Making sure to have conversations about what they want to talk about is important! #preservicelit
A1: communication! Around things not just about academics..talking about what they like and don’t like in a relaxed, informal way to build a relationship. Learning about them as a person will help us learn about them as a reader! #preservicelit
A1: I agree! Sharing books that we have enjoyed helps increase our students' interest in what other books or types of books exist out there #preservicelit
A1. With our youngest readers, you have to listen in 1-1 as they read real books to get to know your readers. Your classroom must have a library of readable books! #preservicelit
A1 Having conversations with our students and making sure to truly listen to what they have to say is a great start! Making sure to have conversations about what they want to talk about is important! #preservicelit
A2: By reading & talking with our Ss, we can learn about their thinking processes. Once we know how they are thinking while their are reading, we can dive in to help them visualize, question, etc. to grow however they need. #preservicelit#ReadersAreLeaders
A1: Talk to your readers, find out what their interests are when they read, what they read, and how much they read. Listen to them and observe their actions while reading. #preservicelit
A2: I had the wonderful opportunity to listen to @donalynbooks at #LFA18 this week. She reminds us we must learn about students' reading life along with the skills and strategies they bring to reading. We must think about both kinds of information. #preservicelit
I couldn't have said it better, Erin. We must know our students as people to make any sort of academic connection. Relationships are at the heart of teaching. #preservicelit
A few of my favorites are A Wrinkle in Time and anything by Roald Dahl. Older titles, but the classics need young reader attention too :) #preservicelit
A1: Some teachers I know create a "What I'm reading board" and the students and teacher can post the titles of the books they are reading. #preservicelit
A2: How students feel about reading, book choices, preferred ways to think and respond, their purpose for reading and their personal goals as readers. #preservicelit
A1 I think starting out that observing is so important. Watch what your students pick out on their own and learn their interests. Then we can aid in picking out books for them, and have conversations about their experiences. An open, comfortable relationship is key #PreserviceLit
We want to know how our students best learn individually and in groups, what their interests are, and how they are able to keep up with their reading at home #preservicelit
A1: We need to be able to tell when they are frustrated or moving through a text to easily. This way we can provide them support or a different text to make sure they are on the right path #preservicelit
Read aloud give us important spaces to read books that are more challenging than they can read aloud for important and complex thinking. #preservicelit
A2. Again with young readers, you must know their level of reading processing to help match them to books, but also must know what types of books might spark an interest, make them laugh, or connect to an emotion #preservicelit
A2 I'm also thinking that we definitely need to know where our students excel in reading and where they have room for improvement. We want to make sure our instructional decisions are informed #preservicelit
A2 We should know about their backgrounds and reading life in years prior. I think it would also be helpful to know about their interests and what engages them in reading. #preservicelit
A2: We need to recognize that scores on comprehension, fluency etc. are dependent on student interest, background knowledge and experience, and genre. When a child scores high or low on a "passage" it shouldn't label them for all instruction. It's more complex. #preservicelit
A2: How much time they spend reading in school and at home. The levels of books they are reading and if the books may be too hard or too easy for them. #preservicelit
Yes! It is more than knowing reading skills, but knowing practices and interests as well. We must also attend to their reading identities. #preservicelit
A3: By conferencing with our Ss we can experience the book as they are experiencing it. Also, strong writers develop out of strong conversations. Discussing a book is very important. #ReadersAreLeaders#preservicelit
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One way to get to know your readers is by getting to know them more than just academically! Forming that positive relationship with students will help you know their interests and help you find texts that will spark their engagement and motivation to want read! #preservicelit
A3: Conferring with readers gives us a joyful one-to-one space to talk as fellow readers. We can learn, connect and teach responsively with each individual student. #preservicelit
A3: They see that you are taking interest in them and what they are reading. They may be more motivated to read more so that they can talk to you about what they are reading. Which will improve their reading skills, this is very important. #preservicelit
A3 Conferring with students gives us time to form a special relationship with our students as readers as they see us as readers as well. We allow ourselves that extra bit of time to know our students one-on-one and to make sure we are catering to each child's needs #preservicelit
A3: Conferring is the best way to get an individualized snap shot of whatvreaders need. Our next steps are what really lead to development. #preservicelit
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A3: This time is a great opportunity to know which books our students are enjoying and which they don’t have much interest in. We can also check their progress on how well they are reading and move them to more challenging books #preservicelit
“complex” being the key word! So many try to make literacy simple. Our teaching would certainly be easier if it were simple, but it is a complex task requiring complex teaching decisions and complex assessment. Nothing simple about it. #preservicelit
A2: We need to recognize that scores on comprehension, fluency etc. are dependent on student interest, background knowledge and experience, and genre. When a child scores high or low on a "passage" it shouldn't label them for all instruction. It's more complex. #preservicelit
The ONLY way to TRULY know anyone (and anything authentically meaningful about them) is to ask! Connecting with a student through real conversations that have/give purpose to the students' is what creates positive rapport & lasting relationships #preservicelit
A4: To help Ss choose books, I think it goes back to everything we've said today... get to know your Ss as readers, listen to them, talk with them, let them chose, and let them exit a book they don't like. #preservicelit#ReadersAreLeaders
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A4: As a teacher, I love sharing my reading journey with my Ss. I also, keep my library current so my Ss have options from classics, "oldies but goodies" from my own collection, and of course the newest releases. #KeepYourLibraryCurrent#preservicelit
A4: Above all, we must first ensure our classroom libraries are full of diverse books across genres and interests so students can see themselves as readers. #preservicelit
A4 To help our students choose the 'right' books for them, we have to get to know and keep up with our students as readers. We have to know their interests and what works for them to help support them in choosing the just-right-books for them #preservicelit
A4: Give book talks often. Bring the whole school into book talking: teachers, special teachers, principals, students and even parents and community members. Make reading irresistible. #preservicelit
A4: As a teacher, I love sharing my reading journey with my Ss. I also, keep my library current so my Ss have options from classics, "oldies but goodies" from my own collection, and of course the newest releases. #KeepYourLibraryCurrent#preservicelit
A4: first find out their interests and get them in the door through those texts. Follow it up with suggestions that stretch them a bit. Not frustrating but a bit of a challenge either as a new genre or a bit more complex. The accomplishment is motivating #preservicelit
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A3 By conferring with readers we will see comprehension, language and vocabulary they might've learned. We can also help students see things from a new perspectives. It's important to see if students are truly progressing or if the text is not appropriate for them. #preservicelit
Modeling the process is so important. It is also why teachers need to be wide readers so we can not unintentionally limiting students' choices. #preservicelit
A4: We can give them time in the library to find a text or provide a few titles we think they might like. We should help guide them, but ultimately, we need to make sure they chose the book THEY want to read! #preservicelit
A4 we support readers in choosing books by knowing them. We want to choose books that not only are at the correct level, but that interest them as well #PreserviceLit
A4 Providing strategies such as IPICK a book to help students figure out if the book interests them and is challenging, but not too challenging. Also, having a classroom library full of different books on various topics is essential. #preservicelit
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A4: We can read the same books that our students are reading. When we show our interest in the books, they will follow suit. We should also try to sales pitch our books to our students to get them reading amazing books and get them hooked! #preservicelit
Yes, We are having an activity in my children's lit class in a few weeks during which students bring in books they may not love but their students might! I've never done that before, but I'm excited about conversation during that class! #preservicelit
A4: first find out their interests and get them in the door through those texts. Follow it up with suggestions that stretch them a bit. Not frustrating but a bit of a challenge either as a new genre or a bit more complex. The accomplishment is motivating #preservicelit
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A4: I just had my #preservicelit students complete non-fiction book trailers. I want them to practice making one and then have their own student create trailers. They are fun! https://t.co/RRh4enH3nB
Thank you to all #preservicelit educators chatting today! Let’s keep the rich conversation alive and slow chat throughout the month. The archive of our chat will be posted soon!
A4: This goes back to listening to them and observing their interests. We can help choose books that we know they are interested in and help them find the book level that will challenge them and by having book sharing in the classroom. #preservicelit
I just had my #preservicelit students create non-fiction book trailers. I wanted them to know how to create trailers and encourage their own students to create them (QR codes on books?). The trailers are fun! https://t.co/dHNIHY0HDd
A4 Having a diversity of texts is so crucial! Having a variety of texts will support having students read for fun! Books that spark their interest is a good way to start, and you will know this by forming that relationship with each and every student. #preservicelit
A3 I always also encourage my students to share if they don't like a book I bring to share with them. Too often I think students think that if a teacher reads the book they have to love it. #preservicelit
I agree, I think the best way to get to know our readers is to ask questions and listen! Showing that you care about what they say shows them that they matter to you! #preservicelit
Very true! We want students to find books they are interested in, connect to, and motivate them. If we focus on reading level we narrow students' choices. I have had so many students fall in love with series or books that weren't necessarily their level. #preservicelit
#preservicelit This “liquid chalkboard” is hanging in the hallway if the Education Dept. Professors, Adjuncts, Admin.Assistants, GAs add what they’ve read, are currently reading, and want to read. I have a separate board for our young scholars- it will be ready soon. Stay Tuned.
It is at the college. I am encouraging my pre-service interns to consider this as their bulletin board they need to create. Several have taken me up on it. I also have a different one my intern created in K. I'll find it and share.#preservicelit
#preservicelit I read in kindergarten every week (my bestie’s classroom.) And the kids vote to decide if they want to add any of the books I read to their “faves” on the bulletin board in the hallway. My intern created the billeting board during her internship.
I LOVE the connections you still have to the classroom. I have a new goal for myself: a read aloud in a classroom each week to stay connected and spread the love of reading. I bet I could find a few teachers who would be up for this. Thanks for the inspiration! #preservicelit
#preservicelit Here are a few examples of the reading bds my preservice interns make for their internship classroom. It is based on the interests of the children. Most of them are interactive- Ss pull the book form the bd-Velcro- and trade itnin for the board. QR codes....🔜
In Reading Recovery, even the university professors have to teach children and I have taken that to heart.I’m volunteering this semester once a week to read with children. I feel like we must stay sharp in our own skills if we are leading others. #preservicelit
#preservicelit QR codes are added to the board or the books. When they click on them the book is read to them. My interns record themselves reading them. It is a fun project and the young readers love it! @AffinitoLit
I think it is so important Susan and try to find spaces to make that happen. That is why I love our practicums: to keep that strong connection to teaching and learning. We must always model being lead learners. #preservicelit
