Creating and sustaining readers is challenging in today's world where test scores are emphasized over developing a love of reading. Some key strategies discussed for public libraries include providing choice in materials, maintaining engaging displays and sections for tweens, hosting author visits, and promoting summer reading programs to prevent summer learning loss. Building trust with young readers and providing guidance and enthusiasm are important for targeting readers and sustaining lifelong reading habits.
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1. Creating and Sustaining Readers
Teri S. Lesesne
Sam Houston State University
Department of Library Science
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3. Here is the real problem…
People are so desperate to raise test
scores that we could well end up with a
nation full of kids who can pass tests but
can neither read critically nor enjoy the
act of reading itself.
P. David Pearson
February 2003
4. Some Important Notes
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9. The research?
Vickey Giles, 2006
Karen Sue Gibson, 2003
Replicating Livaudais, 1982
10. The questions?
What could someone do BEFORE you
read to make you WANT/HATE to read?
What could someone do AFTER you
read to make you WANT/HATE to read?
14. • a happy memory from when you were 10 years old
• a sad memory from when you were 11 years old
•an embarrassing memory from when you were 12
years old
• a great memory from when you were 13 years old
•a “traumatic” memory from when you were 14 years
old
15. How different were your memories
from the person next to you? They
may have been very different or
there may have been some
similarities.
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17. Defining Tweens
Tweens is a fluid definition meaning
that different cognitive, emotional, and
social developments happen at different
rates in different adolescents. Some 10
year olds may have begun physically
developing while others may not see
these changes until they are 13.
Anderson, 2007
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19. Some Physical Basics
Tweens and early teens are being
bombarded by hormones and begin to
develop reproductively (i.e. breasts,
pubic hair, etc.)*
Many experience a growth surge. Guys
get taller, and girls get rounder.
Many experience a hormonal
rollercoaster – becoming moody and
seemingly different over night.
Pruitt, 1999
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21. Some Psychological Basics
Their reasoning capabilities rise to new
levels of complexity.
The adolescent is learning how to
handle adult responsibilities.
By age 12, he or she will be able to think
about possibilities, consider hypotheses,
think ahead, consider the thought
process, and think beyond conventional
limits.
Pruitt, 1999
22. More Psychological Basics
Increased ability to use abstract verbal
concepts.
Increased ability to engage in abstract
thought to engage in issues like politics,
religion and morality.
During the middle school years, moral
development continues to evolve as the
adolescent becomes more aware the
relationship between the individual and
society.
Pruitt, 1999
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24. Social Development Basics
Expected increase in freedom
Move away from family toward peers
Likely to have best friends of the similar
social and ethnic backgrounds.
In 7th grade, the above holds true PLUS
they want friends with similar attitudes
and values.
Peer approval and acceptance grows
more important.
Pruitt, 1999
25. Social Development Basics
Rely on friends for everything from
companionship to understanding.
In middle school, the more a child is
pressured by peers, the greater the
chance he or she will go along or join in.
Pruitt, 1999
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27.
28. Anderson, S. (2007). Serving young teens and „tweens. Westport, CT:
Libraries Unlimited.
American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. (1999). Your
adolescent: Emotional, behavioral, and cognitive development from early
adolescence through the teen years. New York: Harper Collins.
Zuckerman, D. (2001). When little girls become women: Early onset of
puberty in girls. The Ribbon, 6(1).
29. So…
List at least 2 ways you believe tweens
and teens are different.
How do these differences, then, affect
what you will do in terms of meeting
those differences?
34. CREATING AND SUSTAINING
http://professornana.
livejournal.com/
http://tinyurl.com/
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SEE THE MOVIE BASED HAVE THEM CREATE
ON THE BOOK BOOK TRAILERS
37. The questions?
What could someone do BEFORE you
read to make you WANT/HATE to read?
What could someone do AFTER you
read to make you WANT/HATE to read?
38. What could someone do to make you want
to read BEFORE you read?
K-12
Being allowed to choose any book
you want to read
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40. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
K-12
Having a classroom library
41. How does this translate to the
public library?
Displays
Separate section for tweens
Carts or trucks or stacks reserved for
tweens
Ideas?
46. What could someone do to
make you want to read
BEFORE you read?
K-12
Having the teacher take you to the
library
47. PL Translation?
Visit the school with library card
applications.
Invite the class to come to the library on
a field trip.
Host a teacher night and present all you
can provide for them.
Do the same for parents.
49. Translation for PL?
SRP
Research shows slump during summer can
be ameliorated by kids reading books over
vacation.
Need circ stats that show how kids are
accessing PL.
50. What could someone do to make
you want to read BEFORE you
read?
6-12
Meeting the author
64. 5th grade
Rank Boys Girls Both Level
1 WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY 5.2
2 WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY
3 WIMPY WIMPY WIMPY
4 HA TCHET NUMBER NUMBER 4.5
5.9 STARS STARS
5 NUMBER TWILIGHT HATCHET
STARS 5.7
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65. 6TH GRADE
RANK BOYS GIRLS BOTH LEVEL
1 WIMPY TWILIGHT WIMPY
2 WIMPY NEW MOON WIMPY
3 WIMPY ECLIPSE TWILIGHT
4 HATCHET WIMPY WIMPY
5 NUMBER BREAKING HATCHET
STARS DAWN
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66. 7TH GRADE
RANK BOYS GIRLS BOTH LEVEL
1 OUTSIDERS TWILIGHT TWILIGHT
2 WIMPY NEW MOON NEW MOON
3 WIMPY ELCIPSE ECLIPSE
4 GIVER BREAKING BREAKING
DAWN DAWN
5 TWILIGHT OUTSIDERS OUTSIDERS
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67. 8TH GRADE
RANK BOYS GIRLS BOTH LEVEL
1 OUTSIDERS TWILIGHT TWILIGHT
2 GIVER NEW MOON NEW MOON
3 TWILIGHT ECLIPSE ECLIPSE
4 NEW MOON BREAKING BREAKING
DAWN DAWN
5 WIMPY OUTSIDERS OUTSIDERS
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121. NEW RULES
You have the right to read the last
chapter first.
You have the right to read the last
chapter first and then put the book back
on the shelf.
You have the right to refuse to read any
book where you don't like the picture of
the author.
122. NEW RULES
You have the right to ignore all critics.
You have the right to read the book spine
of the person sitting next to you, even on a
plane. And if you can't make it out, you
have the right to ASK.
You have the right to stop reading a book
whenever you decide it's not worth the
effort, or that you simply don't like it.
You have the right to refuse to read any
book anyone else picks out for you. Even if
it's a birthday present.
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123. NEW RULES
You have the right to ignore all of these
rules and do whatever you please as
long as it's civil.
When you find that you're dawdling on
your way back to a book, ditch it.
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124. Finally…
You have the right to read a book and not
take a test or create a diorama or write a
report or do ANYthing.
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