2014 Kansas Summer Institute for School Librarians
June 11-12
Dive into Literacy: Developing Resource Sets
An official KSDE event
Sponsored by
Kansas State Department of Education
School of Library and Information Management,
Emporia State University
Northeast Kansas Library System
State Library of Kansas
Kansas Association of School Librarians
AASL Affiliate Assembly Commendation Recipient 2012
Your packet
Housekeeping Details
Daily Schedule
RIGOROUS READING: 5 ACCESS
POINTS FOR COMPREHENDING
Essential Questions
COMPLEX TEXTS
Participating Authors, Teams, Sponsors
2014 Institute Resources
Learning Sets Process Model
Infogram and Article (Effective Use of First Principles of Instruction)
Various other content-related handouts
Institute Evaluation Form
NOTE: available on website
The Purpose
STUDENTS:
To enable students in today’s schools to achieve
high competencies in reading, understanding, and using
complex texts.
EDUCATORS:
To prepare educators to provide students with
a “balanced diet” of complex reading resources and activities that go
beyond required textbooks and include primary and secondary
sources of authority.
Reference: Dow, M. J. (Ed. and Author). (2013). School libraries matter: Views from the research. Santa
Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited.
The Premise
Teachers and school librarians can together as educational partners create robust environments where
reading, inquiry, questioning, creativity, and problem-solving abound and students experience academic
achievement and career and workplace success.
theory of school librarianship
School librarians are experts in content areas and pedagogy, particularly guided inquiry , an instructional
method concerned with perception, emotions, imagination, and how they relate to knowing,
understanding, and feeling about the world. They are experts in locating and retrieving information;
organization and classification of information; and evaluation and use of information.
School librarians are experts in understanding and communicating about human information behavior,
the human capacities that people have to need, seek, give, and use information in different contexts, and
in understanding the flow of information in society (information transfer cycles).
Essential Questions
1. How can educators including classroom teachers and school librarians achieve goals
of a comprehensive reading curriculum that improves students’ reading and use of
complex texts?
2. How can educators including classroom teachers and school librarians teach
rigorous reading and comprehension of complex texts?
First Principles of Instruction
Merrill, 2007
1. Learning is promoted when learners are engaged
in solving real-world problems.
2. Learning is promoted when existing knowledge
is activated as a foundation for new
knowledge.
3. Learning is promoted when new knowledge is
demonstrated to the learner.
4. Learning is promoted when new knowledge is
applied by the learner.
5. Learning is promoted when new knowledge is
integrated into the learner’s world.
INFOGRAM Created by Arlen Kimmerlman
President-elect, NJASL & School Librarian , CRHS (NJ)
Greater Philadelphia Area
Infogram Reference: Dow, M. J. (2013). Effective use
of first principles of instruction. School Library
Monthly, 29(8), p. 8-10.
Learning Resource Sets
(KSDE, 2013)
1. Establish purpose.
2. Gather resources.
3. Prioritize resources.
4. Plan student learning activities and
assessment of progress.
5. Plan culminating activity.
6. Teach.
KSDE LEARNING RESOURCE SETS
PROCESS MODEL
5 Access Points – Rigorous Reading
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Purpose and modeling
Close and scaffolded reading instruction
Collaborative conversations
An independent reading staircase
Demonstrating understanding and assessing performance
Reference
Frey, N., & Fisher, D. (2013). Rigorous reading: 5 access points for comprehending
complex texts. Thousand Oaks, CA: Crown: A Sage Company.
Definition of Terms
Primary Source
Secondary Source
Primary Sources and Secondary Sources are relative terms
typically determined through consideration of historical context.
Source Type
Description
Examples
Primary Source
Original
Rare
One-of-a-kind
A particular viewpoint
Research reports
Diary
Photograph
Correspondence
Works-of-art
Secondary Source
Builds on primary
sources
Histories
Bibliographies
Journal articles
Newspaper articles
Blogs
Created through the
analysis, synthesis, and
compilation of evidence,
research, and
foundational pieces of
information
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