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Small group exercise Have you now or
have you ever been a reluctant reader?
What is your reading autobiography?
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Who Are Reluctant Readers?
Literate non-readers
Illiterate literates
Nonreaders Aliterates
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Why They Aren’t Reading
By the time many students reach high school, they equate reading with ridicule, failure or exclusively school-related tasks.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Students are not excited by ideas. They prefer to experience life directly rather than through reading.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Many active adolescents are unable to sit still long enough to read for any prolonged period of time. .
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Why They Aren’t ReadingTeenagers are too
self-absorbed and preoccupied with themselves, their problems, families, sexual roles, etc., to make connections between their world and books.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Books are inadequate entertainment compared to other competing media such as television, video games and the Internet.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Persistent stress from home and school to read constantly is counter-productive for some adolescents.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Adolescents may grow up in non-reading homes void of reading material with no reading role models. There is no one to pass down the value of reading..
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Some adolescents may consider reading solitary and anti-social.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Reading is considered “uncool” and something adults do.
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Why They Aren’t Reading
Can’t find the good books
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Small group exercise #6
Ranking and missing reasons
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers
Cover - catchy, action-oriented, attractive, appealing, good "blurb"
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers
Print style - sufficiently large
for enjoyable reading
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers
Format - appropriate and appealing balance of text and white space
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers
Artwork/illustrations - enticing, realistic, demonstrated diversity
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers
Clear writing without long convoluted sentences of sophisticated vocabulary
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers
Acceptable literary quality and effectiveness of presentation
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction High interest
"hook" in first 10 pages
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Well-defined
characters and not too many of them
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Sufficient plot to
sustain interest
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When you write, do you think about the potential book's appeal to non-
readers?
R.L. Stine: Almost all of my books are designed for reluctant readers. When I wrote and edited educational magazines, I learned how to write for different reading levels. I try to keep my scary books at a 4th-grade reading and vocabulary level. In addition-- short books, fast-paced, lots of surprises and twists, cliff-hanger chapter endings to force them to go on to the next chapter, and plot-driven books with little description to slow down the action.
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Plot lines
developed through dialog and action rather than descriptive text
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Familiar themes
with emotional appeal for teenagers
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Power Up With PrintPower Up With Print
Young adults like fiction that: 1. Show YAs being independent from adults. 2. Reassure YAs they are "normal". 3. Present role models. 4. Demonstrate problem solving in action. 5. Allow to feel like winners/overcoming odds. 6. Display relationships of all sorts. 7. Capture intensity and uncertainty of their life. 8. Help develop of socially responsible behavior 9. Explore lives of other teenagers. .
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Believable
treatment (that does not preclude speculative fiction however)
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Single point of
view / not too many characters
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Qualities of Books for Reluctant Readers: Fiction Touches of
humor when appropriate
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Small group exercise Ranking and
missing reasons: what are the most important and what wasn’t discussed
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25 things to do to reach reluctant readers
tomorrow
1. A library card:
2. Booklists: 3. Booktalking :
4. Build relationships:
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25 things to do to reach reluctant readers
tomorrow
5. Celebrate Teen Read Week: 6. Contests: 7. Displays:
8. Follow-up:
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25 things to do to reach reluctant readers
tomorrow
9. Freedom and choice:
10. Get input:11. Get out of
the library:12. Get over
yourself:
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25 things to do to reach reluctant readers
tomorrow
13. Get them in the building :
14. Go the shelves:
15. High visibility merchandising:
16. Honesty:
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25 things to do to reach reluctant readers
tomorrow
17. Keep current :18. Listen: 19. Non-judgmental
attitude:20. Reader's advisory:
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25 things to do to reach reluctant readers
tomorrow
21.Samples: 22.Wave goodbye
to just fiction 23.Weed the
collection: 24.Zowie! Get
graphic
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Connecting Young Adults and LibrariesConnecting Young Adults and LibrariesPatrick JonesPatrick Jones
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