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This lens celebrates reading and offers gentle suggestions for its improvement.
"Reading is the {ACTIVE} process of constructing meaning through the dynamic interaction among the reader's existing knowledge, the information suggested by the written language, and the context of the reading situation." Source: International Reading Association
What is on your Reading List
Your list of books to read or ... what is sitting on your bedside table right now
Share the books you love or recommend a book to avoid!
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tearam
Why Are School Buses Always Yellow by John Barell: Read my review at: http://4oops.edublogs.org/2008/04/29/order-this-book/ Posted April 29, 2008 |
Reading Is...
Five Essential Reading Components
There are Five Essential Reading Components: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension.
Sadly, the 1992 National Adult Literacy Survey (NALS), the most accurate portrait of English-language literacy in the United States, found that 40-44 million Americans, or approximately one quarter of the US population, are functionally illiterate, and another 50 million have marginal literacy skills. This means that almost half of our adult population has deficiencies in reading or computational skills. They are unable to read prescription medicine instructions, driver test questions, directional road signs, etc...
Strong Reading Is ACTIVE:
Active
Creative
Tied to our past, present, and future
Involving
Visually Stimulating
Exciting
The Most Important Thing
The Most Important Thing About Reading Is Our Mind is the Best Storyteller!
Purposeful Reading Comprehension Strategies
Set a Purpose for your Reading
Make a connection between the text and your life, your knowledge of the world or another text.Make predictions.
Stop and think about what you have read.
Ask yourself a question about what you've read and try to answer it.
Reflect in writing on what you have read.
Retell what you've read.
Reread.
Notice patterns in text structure.
Adjust your reading rate: slow down or speed up.
Source: Jefferson County Public Schools
Diversity in Reading
Read from your heritage and experience
Share your titles wih me and I will add them here.
Cuentos from My Childhood: Legends and Folktales of Northern New Mexico
Amazon Price: $11.86 (as of 10/07/2008)
The Day It Snowed Tortillas / El Dia Que Nevaron Tortillas, Folktales told in Spanish and English
Amazon Price: $10.36 (as of 10/07/2008)
Bless Me, Ultima
Amazon Price: $11.16 (as of 10/07/2008)
Photos to Read By
Books and Folks Who Love Them
These pictures can give us time to pause and inspire thoughts for journaling. NOTE: Your school filter may block these pictures.
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Squidoo to the Rescue!!!!
Ways that Squidoo Can Help Reading Instruction
- Find 3 or 4 pictures from Flickr that show a sequence (or take your own photos and upload them to your own Flickr account.) Use numbers as the caption and ask students to vote on the proper sequence.
- Find or take another Flickr picture and ask students to print or key a sentence for what happens before and what happened after the spotlight photo.
- Find or take another Flickr picture and ask atudents to recall what favorite book character or setting that picture reminds them of.
- Using Squidoo's list feature ask students to retell and dictate to you the current story you are reading using the 5 W's while you add their comments to your own Squidoo page.
- Using the text box module, type a passage from a story or non-fiction text. Display this text on a whiteboard or Smartboard using an InFocus projector. Ask students to circle the contextual clues that describe the main idea.
- Use the guestbook feature to have students in a distant classroom communicate with each other about the books/stories they are reading. This is especially good for schools that do not allow student email correspondence.
- Display some pictures showing action from Flickr (or upload your own picuters.) Ask students to compose one statement that is True about the picture(s) and one statement that is False. Students read their True/False statements to each other or the whole class and other students guess which are which.
- Use the text module to key a story passage. Students read this passage and use the timer feature of a computer or a class timer to measure their reading speed.
- Find pairs of Flickr pictures (or upload your own pictures) that illustrate opposites (hot/cold, day/night, calm/wind, walking/standing, etc...) Students name the opposites of each picture and then translate these words into another language using their own language skills or a translation feature such as the Google translator.
- Use the Amazon module to display the latest story book being read in class. Amazon allows visitors to click on the front cover and read an excerpt. This idea is especially appealing for parents who would like to order a home copy of what is being read in the classroom or who would like to order other books in the series, if offered.
Great Books from Amazon for Growing Readers
Mr. Lincoln's Way
Amazon Price: $11.55 (as of 10/07/2008)
The Barn
Amazon Price: $4.99 (as of 10/07/2008)
Through the Cracks
Amazon Price: $14.25 (as of 10/07/2008)
Great Books for Older Readers @ Amazon
The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)
Amazon Price: $10.88 (as of 10/07/2008)
Akeelah and the Bee
Amazon Price: $6.95 (as of 10/07/2008)
Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery (Final Four Mysteries)
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 10/07/2008)
Durango Street
Amazon Price: $5.99 (as of 10/07/2008)
The Wave
Amazon Price: $6.50 (as of 10/07/2008)
The Latest from Powell's Books
http://www.powells.com/
Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world with an extensive collection of out of print rare, and technical titles.
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If these photos were book jackets, what would be the title of each book?
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Insightful Reading Lenses on Squidoo
Children's Authors and Illustrators Headquarters
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Kimberly's Bookshelf
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My Favorite Books
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Resources for Remedial Reading
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Upcoming Titles and Plots
Future News in Reading
SU DOKU, the puzzle of numbers in boxes, is being turned into a mystery novel. In "The Sudoku Murder," out in May from Carroll & Graf publishers. Author Shelley Freydont writes about a world-famous puzzle expert found dead and fledgling sleuth Katie McDonald finds clues to the grisly homicide in a half-finished su doku puzzle found next to the corpse. Click to Read
Online Links that Support Reading
- The OOPS Reading Page
- Resources, Lesson Plans, Activities, and Ideas from talented reading professionals.
- A Reading Teacher's Blog
- A reading teacher's ideas about reading and books.
- Animal School
- Click on the purple box in the middle of the page to see the short movie.
- International Children's Digital Library
- Online books to help children understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online.
- Women Children's Book Illustrators
- The webmaster's purpose for creating this project is two-fold: wanting to learn more about those that came before and to rescue these accomplished women from obscurity.
- Simply Audiobooks
- Each month this website gives away one audiobook that anyone can download at no cost.
- Library Thing
- Wow! I love this website! An online, personalized-link, virtual library with book covers (click on cover view)! So cool! Our family's choices are at http://www.librarything.com/catalog/ramseyreads
New Quick Reader Poll
Your Opinion Is Data!
Reader Feedback
Share An Idea, A Strategy or A Favorite Book
Share your favorite quote about reading here.
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m_white
Hi, Helen. I really liked using the "When the Teacher Isn't Looking" book. When I first started teaching reading, I thought it was cheating to talk about a text before you read it. Glad I know better now! Posted January 27, 2007 |
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zuzanna
Helen, good luck with your lens! Here is my favorite reading quote (I think it is Squidoo-related): "A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people." It's by Will Rogers. Posted October 19, 2006 |
http://www.dropeverythingandread.com/
(National Drop Everything & Read Day is April 13, 2009)
