THE BOOK WHISPERER
PRESENTED BY DANIEL HENRY
MY MOTIVATION
MY MOTIVATION
DONALYN MILLER
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2FPiWIHX4s
DONALYN MILLER
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Child Reader
Bookkeeper, Hotel and Corporate Management
Great Plans for Reading Instruction
Wake Up Call “E.L. Konisberg’s The View From
Saturday”
ACTIVITY 1
TYPES OF READERS
• Developing : “Mathew Effect”
• Dormant: Read as a means to an end only
• Underground: Strong Readers but disconnected by
interest, content and subject area.
• Share out: With your partner, any solutions you have
found to encourage children to read. (5mins)
CONDITIONS FOR LEARNING
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Immersions: Swimming in the Written word
Demonstrations: Of Skills required for reading
Expectations: Set High, never a negative message
Responsibility: Must possess the ability to make
choices
Employment: Use, often in realistic situations
Approximations:
Response: Immediate feedback
Engagement: “see next slide”
ENGAGEMENT CONT.
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Has Value
Students perceive themselves as capable
Free of Anxiety and Stressors
Modeled by someone they like and want to
emulate
INITIAL SURVEY
• Interest assessment
• Activity: Turn to your right, or behind you if your on the
edge of a row, (5mins) Share your students’ current
literary interests.
INVASIVE READING
• Every available moment, throughout the day is
committed to reading.
HIGH EXPECTATIONS
• In all things, in every place around the school and
classroom
FREEDOM
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Introduction to the process
Honest Selection
Removal of “Reading ghosts from closet”
Right to abandon a boring book
FROM HIGH ART TO POP CULTURE
• Stay in the loop of what is relevant to your students
READ-ALOUDS, GENRE EVALUATION,
• to pique interest in a new genre
• To help children fully address their own tastes in
books
• To monitor class progress
READERS NOTEBOOK, SHARE OUT
PROGRESS MONITOR
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Tally List
Reading List
Books to Read List
Response Entries
THE READING ROLE MODEL, SELF
REFLECTIONS
• Mini book talks with students
• Teacher participant and coach
WALLPAPER!?
• Do our practices help us meet our goals, or is it
simply what we have always done?
TRADITIONAL PRACTICES
• Book Report
• Round Robin
• Extrinsic
• Bad
Book Talk
Book Commercial
Prepare and Practice
for Oral Reading
Intrinsic
Good
YOUR CLASSROOM LIBRARY
• Alphabetical Organized Plastic Bins by Genre, color coded to
books, (allows students to handle the maintenance and
operation of the procedure)
• Stamp label Each Book
• Teach proper caring and handling techniques
• Student Librarians
• Quality Books, students can get meritless books on their own
• Periodic Maintenance and Evaluation
• Contact Paper if worth more than a dollar
• Acquire through any means necessary
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Book swaps
Garage Sales
Donations
Teacher owned
DONALYN QUOTE
• “This is how I show my students that I love them – by
putting books in their hands, by noticing what they
are about, and finding books that tell them, “I
know. I know. I know how it is. I know who you are,
and even though we may never speak of it, read
this book, and know that I understand you.”
DONALYN MILLER
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http://www.slideshare.net/donalynm
http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/
https://twitter.com/donalynbooks
http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/2507
http://www.pinterest.com/donalynmiller/
http://www.slideshare.net/Donalynm/creating-aclassroom-where-readers-flourish-24933869