“INSPIRING ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL READERS AND WRITERS USING CHILDREN’S LITERATURE” Penn State Harrisburg KDP CONVOCATION Dallas, Texas “These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.” Gilbert Highet

Let’s BRAINSTORM What kinds of books and strategies can you use in your classroom to inspire reading and writing?

Exploring How Exemplary Texts Improve Reading and Writing Model the Writing Process Use in Set inductions Create own class books Teaching Cause and Effect.

Exemplary Texts Lesson Ideas Using Exemplary Texts to Teach English Concepts Picture book about Langston Hughes poem “My People”. GENRE: Poetry Poem based off Martin Luther King’s “I Have A Dream Speech”. GENRE : Poetry This book is a collection of Langston Hughes poems. GENRE: Poetry “A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. (George R.R. Martin) Kindergarten to 2 nd Grade 2 nd Grade to 5 th Grade Grades 6, 7, & 8

Exemplary Texts Lesson Ideas Using Exemplary Texts to Teach Social Studies Concepts This is a book that teaches multiple perspectives on Japanese internment, and elements of letter writing”. GENRE: Non-Fiction This is a book that describes aspects of the camps from the point of view from the children. GENRE: Non-Fiction “It is from numberless acts of courage that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.” Robert F. Kennedy

Using Exemplary Texts to Teach Comprehension Skills and Concepts Exemplary Texts Lesson Ideas “I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns”. (Malala Yousafzai) Picture book about teaching animal, moods, exercise, and inference. Genre: Picture Book Picture book about the relationship between father and son, and role reversal. GENRE: Folklore K. 2 nd

Research-Based Strategies Literature As a Catalyst for Writing Reading as a way to acquire vocabulary Notebooks are sources Authors as mentors Literature Genres as writing models “For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.” Eudora Welty

Thanks for Attending Our Workshop ! 8 We Will Also Be at 1.Book Making in the Writing Classroom (Saturday, 2:00 – 3:30) 1.Weaving Poetry Throughout The Curriculum (Saturday, 2:00 – 3:30) 1.Successful Classroom Management, Successful Classroom (Saturday 2:00 – 3:30) ENJOY THE REST OF CONVO !