1. Tamara Cox Monique German

3. Why Are We Talking About Novels? Nonfictio n Fiction to Nonfiction Shift Fiction

4. Why Are We Worried About Novels? Unbalanced emphasis on Lexile levels compared to student needs

5. What do the experts say? Stephen Krashen: The author of The Power of Reading insists that the research indicates that the problem is poverty, not a broken public education system. Donalyn Miller: “No matter what standards we adopt or tests we administer, the children who read the most will always outperform the children who don’t read much.” (Tweet August 21, 2012)

6. What About Independent Reading? It’s in there – but buried! Appendix A – page 8 “Students need opportunities to stretch their reading abilities but also to experience the satisfaction and pleasure of easy, fluent reading within them, both of which the Standards allow for. As noted above, such factors as students’ motivation, knowledge, and experiences must also come into play in text selection.”

7. What do these books have in common?

9. Link to full blog article: http://bit.ly/SXb8qphttp://bit.ly/SXb8qp Lexile Does Not Tell The Whole Story

10. Selecting Literature for the Common Core Classroom Source: Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Appendix AAppendix A

11. Emphasize Recreational Reading

12. High School All rights reserved, Powdersville High School, used by permission Some rights reserved, Powdersville High School, Powdersville High School

13. Help Students Find Their Niche http://www.emsisd.com/Page/12477 What’s My Genre Quiz – From Leigh Collazo, Ed Willkie Middle School Library Fort Worth, Texas Book Pass Genre Stickers And/or Genre Shelving

14. Share Novels with Teachers

15. http://www.flickr.com/photos/kristenhearne/sets/72157631002468978/ Best of Summer Reading

16. Connect Fiction to Nonfiction “The Whipping Boy” Use QR codes Connect historical fiction with curriculum content knowledge

17. Literary Nonfiction

18. Help Teachers Evaluate Classroom Novels Lexile 570 Lexile 700Lexile 830 Lexile 870 Lexile 970Lexile 760 Lexile 750 Lexile 700 Lexile 810

19. Tamara Cox Librarian at Palmetto Middle School coxt@anderson1.k12.sc.us @coxtl on Twitter Blog: www.e-literatelibrarian.blogspot.com Kristen Hearne Monique German Librarian at Powdersville Middle germanm@anderson1.k12.sc.us @bibliogerman on Twitter http://thisshelfreserved.blogspot.com/ Librarian at Wren Middle hearnek@anderson1.k12.sc.us hearnek@anderson1.k12.sc.us @KHearne on Twitter Blog: http://thelibrarianinthemiddle.blogspot.com/

20. Resources http://thecommoncore.wordpress.com/common-core- and-the-school-library-media-center/ http://thecommoncore.wordpress.com/common-core- and-the-school-library-media-center/ Donalyn’s article on Lexile: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/20 12/07/guess_ my_lexile.html http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/book_whisperer/20 12/07/guess_ my_lexile.html Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects, Appendix AAppendix A Image “apple core.” via Flickr, some rights reserved by xtnsgo Image “balance scale” winifredxoxo