Creating a Reading Culture - Hands on Literacy conference Nov 2012

Genazzano FCJ College

Creating a Reading Culture

Dr Susan La MarcaHead of Library & Information Services


READING

We all read ourselves and the world around us in order to glimpse what and where we are. We read to understand, or to begin to understand.

Manguel, A. (1996) A History of Reading.

London: Harper Collins. p. 7.


Children learn about literature from what the adults around them do about it.

(Zahnleiter, 1985, p. 187

THE ENABLING ADULT


Teacher-librarians typically place the right book in the right hands at the right time and encourage a lifelong love of reading. The role of the teacher librarian, connecting young people with books that interest them, has been underestimated.

Haycock, Dr Ken (2003) The Crisis of Canada's School Libraries: The Case for Reform and Re-Investment


The Enabling Adult


Teacher-librarians must work on building relationships as consciously as they work on building collections.

Hartzell, 1999

RELATIONSHIPS


CILIP (2002) Start with the Child: Report of the CILIP Working Group on Library Provision for Children and Young People (report ISBN 0 9543792 2 5). London:

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

…the relationship between school librarians and teachers has a significant impact on the quality of learning in schools. Better integration, mutual understanding and respect need to be developed.

CILIP (2002) Start with the Child: Report of the CILIP Working Group on Library Provision for

Children and Young People


The teacher-librarian has the specialised knowledge of reading material which classroom teachers may lack and can offer the guidance that teachers often do not.

Moloney, 2000, p. 102.

KNOWLEDGE


Readers are made by readers.

Chambers, 1991, p. 87


Reading is not a duty, and has

consequently no business to be

made disagreeable.

Augustine Birrell

AMBIENCE


Krashen, 2002, p 2

There is a great deal of evidenceshowing that children with moreaccess to books read more.

ENVIRONMENT


Doll, 1992, p 226

ENVIRONMENT

There is…evidence to indicate that children also seek to define and defend a territory for themselves.


There is no properly functioning individual whose mode of existence is not moderated or mediated (if not determined) by the social.

Misson, 1997, p 5


Choice



To be successful there should be:

–a large, varied collection of reading materials

–knowledgeable library staff who know both the collection and the students with whom the work

–adequate access to reading materials both during structured reading programs and out of school hours

– varied forms of reading materials in an array of reading ability levels


To be successful there should be:

–modeling by staff of positive attitudes towards reading and their students as readers

–whole school support for reading as a necessary part of life

–an encouraging, welcoming physical environment

–a sense of ownership by the students of their own reading development and their reading environment



What does this look like in practice?


R.eading

O.pen

A.ll

D.oors

Program


Responses to Text: Four Peaks Task

An image

A sound

A colour

A word


Responses to Text: Audio Files


Responses to Text: Photostory


Learning Management System


Reading Environment – Outdoors


Reading Environment


Reading Environment – Gallery space


CBCA enrichment reading program

Students as Judges


Book ClubsReading and discussing a common book

IASL bookmark project

Book week celebrations

SLAV Reader’s Cup

Reviewing

Favorites Lists

Book Selection

LITFEST – Song

Literary Afternoon Teas

Story reading in Prep to 4 library

National Year of Reading Competitions


Literary Afternoon Tea Events


National Year of Reading 2012


LITFEST

Story Tent


LITFEST


Senior Fiction Collection

‘Readers are made by Readers’


New Collections

•Big & Beautiful•Real Reads•Pop-Up books•Graphic Novels•Interfiled Audio•Overdrive


LISTS


Outward facing covers


PROVIDE

STIMULATE

DEMONSTRATE

RESPOND


Chambers, A. (1991) The Reading Environment, p. 92.

They provide books and time to read them and an attractive environment where people want to read. They stimulate a desire to become a thoughtful reader. They demonstrate by reading aloud and their own behaviour what a ‘good’ reader does. And they respond, and help others respond, to the individuality of everyone in the reading community they belong to.

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