creating a reading culture - hands on literacy conference nov 2012
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Explores what factors impact on the creation of a reading cultureTRANSCRIPT
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Creating a Reading Culture
Dr Susan La MarcaHead of Library & Information Services
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READING
We all read ourselves and the world around us in order to glimpse what and where we are. We read to understand, or to begin to understand.
Manguel, A. (1996) A History of Reading.
London: Harper Collins. p. 7.
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Children learn about literature from what the adults around them do about it.
(Zahnleiter, 1985, p. 187
THE ENABLING ADULT
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Teacher-librarians typically place the right book in the right hands at the right time and encourage a lifelong love of reading. The role of the teacher librarian, connecting young people with books that interest them, has been underestimated.
Haycock, Dr Ken (2003) The Crisis of Canada's School Libraries: The Case for Reform and Re-Investment
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The Enabling Adult
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Teacher-librarians must work on building relationships as consciously as they work on building collections.
Hartzell, 1999
RELATIONSHIPS
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CILIP (2002) Start with the Child: Report of the CILIP Working Group on Library Provision for Children and Young People (report ISBN 0 9543792 2 5). London:
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
…the relationship between school librarians and teachers has a significant impact on the quality of learning in schools. Better integration, mutual understanding and respect need to be developed.
CILIP (2002) Start with the Child: Report of the CILIP Working Group on Library Provision for
Children and Young People
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The teacher-librarian has the specialised knowledge of reading material which classroom teachers may lack and can offer the guidance that teachers often do not.
Moloney, 2000, p. 102.
KNOWLEDGE
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Readers are made by readers.
Chambers, 1991, p. 87
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Reading is not a duty, and has
consequently no business to be
made disagreeable.
Augustine Birrell
AMBIENCE
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Krashen, 2002, p 2
There is a great deal of evidenceshowing that children with moreaccess to books read more.
ENVIRONMENT
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Doll, 1992, p 226
ENVIRONMENT
There is…evidence to indicate that children also seek to define and defend a territory for themselves.
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There is no properly functioning individual whose mode of existence is not moderated or mediated (if not determined) by the social.
Misson, 1997, p 5
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Choice
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Creating a Reading Culture
To be successful there should be:
–a large, varied collection of reading materials
–knowledgeable library staff who know both the collection and the students with whom the work
–adequate access to reading materials both during structured reading programs and out of school hours
– varied forms of reading materials in an array of reading ability levels
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To be successful there should be:
–modeling by staff of positive attitudes towards reading and their students as readers
–whole school support for reading as a necessary part of life
–an encouraging, welcoming physical environment
–a sense of ownership by the students of their own reading development and their reading environment
Creating a Reading Culture
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What does this look like in practice?
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R.eading
O.pen
A.ll
D.oors
Program
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Responses to Text: Four Peaks Task
An image
A sound
A colour
A word
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Responses to Text: Audio Files
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Responses to Text: Photostory
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Learning Management System
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Reading Environment – Outdoors
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Reading Environment
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Reading Environment – Gallery space
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CBCA enrichment reading program
Students as Judges
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Book ClubsReading and discussing a common book
IASL bookmark project
Book week celebrations
SLAV Reader’s Cup
Reviewing
Favorites Lists
Book Selection
LITFEST – Song
Literary Afternoon Teas
Story reading in Prep to 4 library
National Year of Reading Competitions
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Literary Afternoon Tea Events
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Literary Afternoon Tea Events
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Literary Afternoon Tea Events
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National Year of Reading 2012
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National Year of Reading 2012
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LITFEST
Story Tent
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LITFEST
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Senior Fiction Collection
‘Readers are made by Readers’
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New Collections
•Big & Beautiful•Real Reads•Pop-Up books•Graphic Novels•Interfiled Audio•Overdrive
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LISTS
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Outward facing covers
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PROVIDE
STIMULATE
DEMONSTRATE
RESPOND
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Chambers, A. (1991) The Reading Environment, p. 92.
They provide books and time to read them and an attractive environment where people want to read. They stimulate a desire to become a thoughtful reader. They demonstrate by reading aloud and their own behaviour what a ‘good’ reader does. And they respond, and help others respond, to the individuality of everyone in the reading community they belong to.