New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the Classroom

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New Books, New Visions for Literacy in the
Classroom

• Linda Leonard Lamme
• University of Florida

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Reading Research SupportFactors that Influence
School Success

• Reading at home
• Reading trade books
• Bridging the gap between home and school
• Time spent reading
• Book Access
• Book quality
• Opportunities for reader response

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Louise RosenblattTransactional Theory

• Aesthetic Reading
• Creates readers
• Is enjoyable
• Needs book choice
• Efferent Reading
• Learning information
• Reading Response

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The Roles of Childrens Books in Reading
Instruction

• Aesthetic
• Reading at home
• Reading at school for pleasure
• USSR - silent reading time
• Reading workshop
• Efferent
• Information for content areas

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NOT for Reading Instruction

• Makes reading books efferent
• Negatively impacts enjoyment

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Two Forms of Oral Reading

• Lap Reading
• Demonstrates how print works
• Facilitates learning how to read
• Reading Aloud
• Demonstrates enthusiasm for reading
• Creates a literate classroom community
• Demonstrates fluent reading

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Lap Reading

• Buddy reading
• Volunteer reading
• Reading at home

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Reading Aloud Daily

• 180 Days, 180 Good Books
• All genres for literary exposure
• Award-winning books
• Rich language
• Excellent art
• Accurate information
• Authentic stories
• DONT read aloud what kids will read on their own

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When Reading AloudRead and Talk about

• The title page
• the title, author, and illustrator
• the publisher
• The verso page
• date of publication
• the illustration media
• the dedication
• Author and Illustrator notes
• Endpapers

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Home Reading

• Why? Avid readers read at home
• Books go home every night K-2
• Novels and Nonfiction 3-8
• Read every night
• New books every week (or day)
• Reader response in classroom

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Book Access

• All students need access to books
• School library media center liberal policy on
  checkouts
• Classroom nightly checkout
• Book clubs?
• Quality of books
• Funds for books

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Book Publishing is Political

• Baker and Taylor required?
• Which publishers produce mostly
• High quality literature?
• Multicultural literature by minority authors?
• Junk? Junk literature is like junk food
• It rots the mind
• It panders the emotions
• It misinforms

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Authentic Literature

• Is the author of the culture in the book
• Is the author writing about personal experiences?
• Is the topic well-researched with sources
  identified?
• Did the illustrator conduct research?
• Clues
• Dedications
• Author notes

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American Indian Books

• Resources
• Oyate.org
• Doris Seale Beverly Slapin
• A Broken Flute
• Through Indian Eyes
• Offensive Topics
• Thanksgiving
• Westward Movement

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Good Native Books

• Louise Erdrich Birchbark House (Thorndike)
• Joseph Bruchac Winter People (Dial)
• Cynthia Leitich Smith Jingle Dancer (Morrow)

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Designated Months

• Hispanic Heritage Month? NO!
• Black History Month? NO!
• Share these authors all year long!

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Pura Belpre Narrative

• Vola Vanales
• Tequila Worm
• (Wendy Lamb)

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• Carmen T. Bernier-Grand
• Cesar. Si, Se Puede!
• Ill. David Diaz.
• (Marshall Cavendish)
• Pam Munoz Ryan Becoming Naomi Leon
  (Scholastic)

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• Pat Mora A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a
  Great Big Heart
• (Alfred Knopf)

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Pura Belprefor Illustration

• Lulu Delacre
• Arrorro Mi Nino
• Latino Lullabies
• and
• Gentle Games
• (Lee Low)

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• Rafael Lopez My Name is Celia The Life of Celia
  Cruz (bilingual, Rising Moon)
• David Diaz Cesar Si, Se Puede
• (Marshall Cavendish)

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African American Coretta Scott King Writing

• Toni Morrison
• Remember
• (Houghton
• Mifflin)
• Shiela Moses
• The Legend of Buddy Bush
• (Margaret K. McElderry)

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• Sharon Flake
• Who Am I without Him?
• (Jump at the Sun/
• Hyperion)
• Marilyn Nelson
• Fortunes Bones
• (Front Street)

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Coretta Scott King Illustration

• Kadir Nelson
• Ellington
• was Not a Street
• by Ntozake Shage
• (Simon Schuster)

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• Jerry Pinkney, God Bless the Child using the
  words of Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog, Jr.
  (Armistad)
• Leo and Diane Dillon, The People Could Fly by
  Virginia Hamilton (Alfred K. Knopf)

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Sydney Taylor Awardfor Jewish Content

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• Erica Silverman for Sholoms Treasure How Sholom
  Aleichem Became a Writer. Farrar, Straus Giroux
• Borden, Louise for The Journey that Saved Curious
  George The True Wartime Escape of Margret and H.
  A. Rey. Ill. Allan Drummond

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International LiteratureBatchelder Award

• Arthur A. Levine for
• An Innocent Soldier
• by Jusef Holub
• (German)

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• Phaidon Press for Nicholas by Reney Goscinny,
  Ill. Jean-Jacque Dempe (French)
• Bloomsbury for When I Was a Soldier
• by Valerie Zenatti (French)

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Walter Lorraine Books for Run, Boy, Run by Uri
Olev (Hebrew)

• Richard Jackson for Daniel
• Half Human and the Good Nazi
• by David Chotjewitz (German)

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Notable Books for a Global SocietyChildrens
Literature and Reading SIG of IRAPublished in
Dragon Lode

• Double Crossing
• by Eve Tal
• (Cinco Puntos)

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Kamishibai Man by Allen Say (Houghton Mifflin)
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• Mama Panyas Pancakes by Mary and Rich
  Chamberlin, Ill. Julia Cairns (Barefoot Books)

• (Houghton Mifflin)

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Ill Plant You a Lilac Tree by Laura Hillman
(Atheneum)
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• Hidden Child
• by Isaac Melman
• (Farrar, Straus Giroux)
• A Negro League Scrapbook by
• Carole Boston Weatherford
• (Boyds Mills Press)

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• Sawdust Carpets
• Amelia Lau Carling
• (Groundwood)
• The School Is Not White
• Doreen Rappaport
• Ill Curtis James
• (Jump at the Sun/Hyperion)

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IBBY Hans Christian Anderson Award

• Outstanding Authors
• Margaret Mahy
• Katharine Paterson
• Virginia Hamilton
• Outstanding Illustrators
• Anthony Browne
• Quentin Blake

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Giverny AwardScience and Illustration

• Daniel
• and His Walking Stick
• by Wendy McCormick
• Ill. Constance R. Bergum
• (Peachtree)

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Givery Award Science and Illustration
Squirrel and John Muir by Emily Arnold
McCully (Farrar Straus Giroux)
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ALSC Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Medal

• Secrets of a Civil War Submarine Solving the
  Mysteries of the H.L. Hunley by Sally M. Walker
  (Carolrhoda)

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ALSC Robert F. Siebert Informational Book Medal
Hitler Youth Growing Up in Hitlers Shadow by
Susan Campbell Bartoletti (Scholastic)
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NSTA Outstanding Science Trade Books

• The Tarantula Scientist
• Sy Montgomery Ill. Nic
• Bishop (Houghton Mifflin)
• I See a Kookaburra! Steve Jenkins and Robin Page.
  (Houghton Mifflin)

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NCSS Notable Trade Books for Young People

• A Woman
• for President
• by Kathleen Krull.
• Ill. By Jane Dyer
• (Walker)
• Escape from Saigon How a Vietnam Ear Orphan
  became an American Boy by Andrea Warren, Farrar,
  Straus Giroux

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Caldecott

• Chris Raschka for
• The Hello Goodbye Window
• by Norton Jester (Hyperion)
• Bryan Collier for Rosa
• by Nikki Giovanni (Henry Holt)
• Jon Muth for Zen Shorts (Scholastic)
• Marjorie Priceman for Hot Air The Story of the
  First Hot Air Balloon (Atheneum)
• Beckie Prange for Song of the Water Boatman by
  Joyce Sidman (Houghton Mifflin)

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Newbery Medal

• Criss Cross by Lynne Rae
• Perkins (Greenwillow)
• Whittington by Alan Armstrong
• Ill. By S. D. Schindler
• (Random House)
• Hitler Youth by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
  (Scholastic)
• Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson
• Ill by Hudson Talbot (Dial)

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Many Awards

• Orbus Pictus Award from NCTE
• Childrens Choices from IRA
• Teachers Choices from NCTE
• New Author Award from IRA
• Notable Books for Language Arts from NCTE
• Many others

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Literature is NOT a TextbookSo Dont

• Test children about what they read
• Read just parts of books
• Read books without illustrations intact
• Require all children to read the same book

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Instead

• Give students opportunities to share books
• Discuss favorite
• Authors
• Illustrators
• Genre
• Publishers

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Books with Excellent Writing

• Newbery Award Winners
• Coretta Scott King Award for Writing
• Pura Belpre Award for Writing
• Notable Books in Language Arts

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Authors

• Pat Mora Pam Munoz Ryan
• Julia Alvarez Angela Johnson
• Gary Soto E. L. Konigsburg
• Kate DiCamillo Christopher Paul Curtis
• Kevin Henkes Jerry Spinelli
• Karen Hesse Patricia Reilly Giff
• Linda Sue Park Avi
• Karen Cushman Louis Sachar
• Marilyn Nelson Lois Lowry

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Illustrators

• E. B. Lewis Kadir Nelson
• Christopher Myers Bryan Pinkney
• Leo and Diane Dillon Jerry Pinkney
• R. Gregory Christie Yuyi Morales
• Susan Guevera Joe Cepeda
• Enrique O. Sanchez Mo Willems
• David Weisner David Small
• Sims Tabak Molly Bang

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Genre

• Fantasy
• Folk Literature
• Informational Books (nonfiction)
• Historical fiction
• Poetry
• Realistic Fiction

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Invite students to

• Write like their favorite authors
• Draw like their favorite illustrators
• Share what they learn from their favorite
  informational books
• Read poetry from their favorite poets
• Become a literature community
• Celebrate books, authors, and illustrators

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Publishers to Note

• Atheneum
• Armistad

• Barefoot Books
• Bloomsbury

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Publishers to Note

• Boyds Mills Press
• Carolrhoda

• Cinco Puntos
• Marshall Cavendish

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Publishers to Note

• Childrens Book Press
• Dial

• Greenwillow
• Groundwood

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Publishers to Note

• Henry Holt
• Houghton Mifflin

• Farrar Straus Giroux
• Front Street

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Publishers to Note

• Richard Jackson
• Jump at the Sun/Hyperion

• Alfred Knopf
• Wendy Lamb

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Publishers to Note

• Walter Lorraine
• Morrow

• Lee and Low
• Arthur Levine

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Publishers to Note

• Random House
• Rising Moon (bilingual books)

• Peachtree
• Phaidon

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Publishers to Note

• Scholastic
• Simon and Schuster

• Thorndike

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Proactive Teachers

• Seek out books from minority presses
• Immerse students in the best, most recently
  published literature
• Find funding sources for large classroom
  libraries and home reading programs
• Provide students with a comprehensive array of
  multicultural, thought-provoking literature

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Proactive Teachers

• Refrain from testing students on books
• Study writers, artists, and publishers of books
• Provide award lists to public libraries to aid in
  book selection and purchase
• Provide award lists to school library media
  center librarians for book selection and purchase
• Pressure book clubs to increase their collection
  of award-winning books from more than just
  Caldecott and Newbery awards