SCHOLASTIC READING SUMMIT STUDENT-LED BOOK DISCUSSIONS ELA Common Core, Self-Directed Learning Skills, and 21st Century Skills

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SCHOLASTIC READING SUMMITSTUDENT-LED BOOK
DISCUSSIONSELA Common Core, Self-Directed
Learning Skills, and 21st Century Skills

• St. Paul, Minnesota
• June 27, 2013

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AGENDA

• Share Clusters of Books Address ELA CCSS 9
• Interact with Clusters of Books
• Experience Adding to Book Clusters

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FOCUS

• We have more students who can read and dont than
  we do readers who cannot read at all.
• Steven Layne. Igniting the Passion for Reading.
  P8.
• from To Read or Not to Read (2007) by the
  National Endowment for the Arts.

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ELA COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS

• INTEGRATION OF KNOWLEDGE AND IDEAS
• R.9 Analyze how two or more texts address similar
  themes or topics in order to build knowledge or
  to compare the approaches the authors take
• GRADE 1
• RL.1.9 Compare and contrast the adventures and
  experiences of CHARACTERS in STORIES
• GRADE 4
• RL.4.9 Compare and contrast the treatment of
  similar themes and topics and patterns of events
  in stories, myths, and traditional literature
  from different cultures
• GRADE 6
• RL.6.9 Compare and contrast TEXTS IN DIFFERENT
  FORMS OR GENRES in terms of their approaches to
  similar themes and topics

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BOOK CLUSTER EXAMPLESRL.1.9 Compare and contrast
the adventures and experiences of CHARACTERS in
STORIES

• GRADE 1 Book Cluster
• Pete the Cat The Wheels on the Bus based on the
  creation of James Dean
• Pete the Cat Rocking in My School Shoes by Eric
  Litwin Illustrated by James Dean
• Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons by Eric
  Litwin Illustrated by James Dean
• Petes Big Lunch by James Dean
• Scholastic Discover More Puppies and Kittens by
  Penelope Arlon and Tory Gordon-Harris

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PETE THE CATRL.1.9 Compare and contrast the
adventures and experiences of characters in
stories

• Pete the Cat Rocking In His School Shoes
• DIFFERENT
• The story is about the changing color of shoes

• Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
• DIFFERENT
• The story is about losing buttons

• SAME
• Both stories include the main character Pete

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OTHER EXAMPLES

• GRADE 6 Book Cluster
• THEME INTEGRATION, CIVIL RIGHTS
• Kizzie Ann Stamps by Jeri Watts
• Lions of Little Rock by Kristen Levine
• Countdown by Deborah Wiles
• Sit In How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
  by Andrea Davis Pinkney
• Who Was Rosa Parks? by Yona Zeldis McDonough
• What Was the March on Washington? by Kathleen
  Krull
• Rons Big Mission by Rose Blue and Corinne J.
  Naden
• 42 Adapted by Aaron Rosenberg
• Jackie Robinson American Hero by Sharon Robinson

• GRADE 4 Book Cluster
• THEME Hurricane Katrina
• Ninth Ward by Jewell Parker Rhodes
• I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 by Lauren
  Tarshis
• Buddy by M.H. Herlong
• Scholastic Discover More Disasters by David
  Burnie

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VIDEO EXAMPLEGrade 1 Explicit Instruction
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Grade 6RL.6.9. Compare and contrast texts in
different forms or genres in terms of their
approaches to similar themes and topics
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DIRECTIONSfor Expanded Reading

• Use Book Wizard to select other books that will
  complement the cluster of books you have reviewed
• www.scholastic.com/bookwizard/
• Look within your school library for additional
  resources
• What other ideas do you have to add to the
  cluster of books around the particular grade
  level theme you reviewed?

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EVERY CHILD A READER THAT READS MORE AND ENJOYS
READING