2015 NTPRS session presentation by Mike Peto: feel free to share this document for non-commercial use, but please do not modify it.

Basic understandings This presentation is designed to be downloaded; you can read my hidden notes there are a lot of links embedded and you can read my hidden notes (the spoken part during the presentation). Find it on my blog: mrpeto.wordpress.com

Basic understandings FVR SSR Silent Sustained Reading Light Reading Recreational Reading Pleasure Reading

Basic understandings Student choice Minimal or no assessment Permission to abandon the book

Why FVR? “No matter what intervention strategies you employ to support developing readers or what enrichment projects you provide to your most gifted ones, none of it is going to affect the reading achievement of all of the students in your classroom the way hours and hours of time spent reading will.” Donalyn Miller The Book Whisperer, page 167

A strong FVR program Click here to go to Amazon.com to buy a copy of this book

A strong FVR program Access Appeal Conducive Environment Encouragement Staff Training Non-Accountability Follow-up Activities Distributed Time to Read

Building the library

A big classroom library is not necessarily a good library

Building the library A big classroom library is not necessarily a good library

Building the library Essential truth: Easy reading is pleasure reading Kelly H. said, “I like this book because I can understand it on my own” Majority of my classroom library consists of books written by TPRS authors 70%

Building the library A mix of children´s encyclopedias, sports biographies, Judy Moody, Captain Underpants, Diary of a Wimpy Boy, popular fantasy books, magazines...but sometimes high student interest trumps reading level Kyle D. said, “I want to read about baseball”

Building the library A mix of children´s encyclopedias, sports biographies, Judy Moody, Captain Underpants, Diary of a Wimpy Boy, popular fantasy books, magazines...but sometimes high student interest trumps reading level When buying books written for kids in the target language, prioritize EASY TO READ

Building the library These are better than... Cognates!...these. Click on book to go to Amazon page

Building the library These are better than......these. Click on book to go to Amazon page Easy to read!

Building the library WARNING – May contain inappropriate scenes – not all were written for school Click on book to go to Amazon page Buy the whole series!!! These are my most popular “authentic lit” purchases for heritage speakers

Building the library TPRS authors are the best choices for your FVR library!!! Click on photo to go to the author’s page and purchase their books Independent TPRS authors (Spanish) Meg Villanueva Mike Peto Christine Tiday JJ Hill, Marissa Smith, Roberta Price Mira Canion Michael Miller

Building the library 20 min Independent TPRS authors (Chinese) Click on photo to go to the author’s page and purchase their books TPRS authors are the best choices for your FVR library!!! Haiyun LuTerry Waltz

Building the library TPRS authors are the best choices for your FVR library!!! Independent TPRS authors (Latin) Bob Patrick will be releasing a novella titled "Itinera Petri" (The Journeys of Peter), the first of a series. It is aimed at Intermediate low readers. It limits itself to the 50 Most Important Verbs (a list that a collaborative effort of Latin CI teachers created a couple of years ago).

Building the library TPRS authors are the best choices for your FVR library!!! Click on pic to go to the publisher’s page and purchase their books

Building the library Three ways to be frugal: Use public libraries to test-drive books, especially non-TPRS novels. I routinely borrow books for two weeks just to see if kids like them. You may be surprised what works or does not work. Plan FVR purchases with a colleague, both buy different books and switch libraries midyear. Your kids will have access to twice the amount of books. Tell your principal that you want to become Department Chair so that you can use the stipend to buy books for the classroom library.

Building the library Children´s books, the kind designed to be read aloud to a five year old, are NOT good FVR books

First days of FVR Teach students to browse

First days of FVR Click here to download a copy of this Browsing Sheet in Spanish Title Do you want to read the book? What is the book about? My name is I want perhaps no

EncouragementEncouragement

Hands down, the students who read the most are the best at every part of school– reading, writing, researching, content-specific knowledge, all of it. - Stephen Krashen Click here to download Bryce Hedstrom´s presentation on Light Reading that has more encouraging quotes to read to kids

Encouragement Click here to download Krashen’s 81 Generalizations We acquire languages most effectively through pleasure reading

While reading A classroom environment that is conducive to reading

While reading

The biggest distractor in the classroom during Free Voluntary Reading is a teacher who does not read. Please tweet this!

While reading The teacher MUST READ along with students

After reading What do you do after reading?

After reading Click here to download a blank version of this reading journal in Spanish

After reading Does it work?

A strong FVR program Access Appeal Conducive Environment Encouragement Staff Training Non-Accountability Follow-up Activities Distributed Time to Read a little each day, not a lot once a week informal chats nothing graded I read prof. lit. I quote Krashen before reading, I talk to them about their reading silent room, I read with them comprehensible & interesting books, I ask about magazines all books provided in class Uh-ho! I only let kids take books home WHEN THEY ASK. I want them to be READERS, not just to read in class.

A modest proposal Please start thinking of yourselves as authors. Tell me when you self-publish on createspace.com and I will advertise your book on my website Submit your own short TPRS novel or collection of short stories to my FVR collective and get copies of everyone else´s novels: Learn to make your own class novels at the NTPRS 2015 session “Expanding the Classroom Library”, TODAY at 1:45 pm in room 3