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Why adolescents don't do assigned reading
6. In high school, did you complete all assigned readings? Why or why not?
Did you use strategies similar to students in the video to disguise not doing the reading? Explain techniques you used and why you used these.
Radio Broadcaster in Sudan (2010)/President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
7. Which story did you hear? What radio reading techniques did the actor use to keep your attention and make the story interesting?
8. YOU Radio Read!
Email Sharon an audio file OR a video of you Radio Reading several pages of a PICTURE BOOK from one of these choices. Amazon offers free pages of picture books. Choose from titles you find in these categories:
https://www.amazon.com/Best-Childrens-Picture-Books/s?k=Best+Childrens+Picture+Books
https://www.amazon.com/New-Picture-Books/s?k=New+Picture+Books
9. Do you LISTEN to podcasts of stories or news or information instead of reading these?
What do you listen to? Why do you LISTEN instead of READ?
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Workshop 1 No Word Picture Books: Readers Become Writers |
Choose ONE book.
Click the Book Title to view books on Amazon.
Click Read Sample under the book cover to see free pages.
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Tuesday by David Wiesner
Tuesday Video on Amazon from the |
Fossil by Bill Thomson If you wish to learn more about the book, Fossil by Bill Thomson |
Anno's Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno Mitsumasa Anno is a famous Japanese creative thinker, builder, artist, mathematician, writer of picture books. |
6. Compose your own DIALOGUE and DESCRIPTION for 2-3 pages of one of the NO WORD picture books above.
Dialogue is what characters say or think. Description tells the story.
Here is an example.
The Chatbot in the Backpack
Jaya zipped open her backpack and pulled out a shiny new tablet.
It blinked to life and said, “Hello! I’m Zip! What would you like to talk about today?”
Jaya jumped. “Whoa! You talk?”
“Yes! I’m a chatbot,” said the voice. “I can answer questions, tell jokes, and even help with homework!”
Jaya smiled. “Okay, chatbot. What’s 12 plus 15?”
Zip thought for a second. “That’s 27!” it said proudly.
Just then, Jaya’s friend Theo peeked over her shoulder.
“Who are you talking to?” Theo asked.
“My new chatbot! It’s inside this tablet,” said Jaya. “It talks like a person!”
Theo grinned. “Let’s ask it something fun!”
Story composed by Estella Explainer AI (2025) |
Pentatonic Scale 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
Bobby McFerrin teaches the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
TEMPTATIONS sing My Girl -- all pentatonic scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eepLY8J4E6c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGpUscFY9RA
songs that use the Pentatonic scale: 2.5 min showing big hit songs and artists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMO-Ku60Hsk
sheet music w/Louis Armstrong performing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izSK_fFv4tM
2006 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Bruce Springsteen and friends
https://www.betsyleebaileymusic.com/my-musical-musings/pentatonic-scale-and-folk-songs
Folk songs built on the Pentatonic Scaler
"ThePentatonic Scale uses the scale degrees"do, re, mi, sol, la." It can start on any note, but an easy way to work out the pentatonic scale is to play on the five black notes of the piano. If you can play a tune using only the black notes, then the tune you are playing is pentatonic."
Questions are not always about getting kids to answer — they're about getting kids to think.
Thanks to @woodard_julie for this sketchnote. You can find more of Julie Woodard’s work at WoodStock Images.
Large Vocabulary Knowledge Assists Learning |
Having a large vocabulary to use and recognize is an asset for school learning.
Some students start school disadvantaged and remain disadvantaged because of vocabulary knowledge.
Reading aloud in all grade levels, telling stories, listening to music teaches new vocabulary and immerses students in conversations to help them understand and describe ideas.
First Lady Michelle Obama reads Cat in the Hat by Dr. Seuss
Listen to the podcast OR read the transcript Closing the Word Gap Between Rich and Poor
Here is a transcript of the podcast
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Identify information from "Closing the Word Gap Between Rich and Poor" explaining why learning lots of vocabulary before entering kindergarten is important to learning for a lifetime.
Bullet point four reasons why having a large vocabulary before entering kindergarten is important to young learners.
Would you have thought of vocabulary as key to school learning success? Why or why not?
What course(s) in college have introduced the most new vocabulary words for you to learn?
Of these strategies, which ones do you use when you see or hear new words whose meaning or definition you may not know?
a. use the text around the word(s) to understand the meaning
b. use a paper or online dictionary to define the word(s)
c. ask someone or ask Siri for the meaning
d. ignore the word(s)
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Books brought by a bookmobile to the migrant camp opened a child to life's possibilities
Did a bookmobile come to your neighborhood in the summer? If you were a kid without books and transportation living on a reservation, in a rural setting, in an inner-city neighborhood without a library, in foster care, or in prison, what might a bookmobile do for you?
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Second Virtual Workshop
USING KID-FRIENDLY LANGUAGE
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Opener:
- How many pages have you read this past week for your University classes?
- What is the most challenging reading that you have had to do?
- Why is that material challenging to you and what strategies do you use to overcome those challenges?
Recalling the Reading Comprehension Video from FAT City just watched, reading is making meaning from text, but when readers lack context, they struggle to make meaning from what they are reading.
Activity 1
Analyze Dwight D. Eisenhower's response to the Soviet Union's launching of Sputnik (1957) and the nation's increased commitment to space exploration and science in education.
NASA Photograph
Hidden Figures Movie Trailer
'Hidden Figures': How Black Women Did the Math That Put Men on the Moon, NPR Podcast (September 25, 2016)
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Third Virtual Workshop
TECHNOLOGY TOOLS TO SUPPORT READING
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| Online Tools for Interactive Vocabulary Learning |
Dictionaries
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Handheld Dictionary and Thesaurus from Franklin Electronics (many different models available)
Younger Students' Resources
Older Students' Resources
Thesaurus and Grammar Checkers
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Word Hippo- Comprehensive Thesaurus for Synonyms and Antonyms
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Reverso Speller - Spell checker, grammar checker, and translators
Math and Science Resources
Wordless books offer a unique creative reading experience that requires “reader” participation. Informed by their life experiences, young readers observe and interpret the illustrations to create their own stories. These narratives have the flexibility to change with every reading because we are reading pictures, not words. The stories can be told as a descriptive account or from the point of view of different characters.
Wordless books reflect the creativity and imagination of the readers who translate their stories. Multiple readers can also take turns adding narration, voices, or sound effects to each page.
FOSSIL can be read as a description of the illustrations, or told from the viewpoint of either the boy or the dog. Or for even more challenging narrative possibilities, the story can be told from the perspective of secondary characters like the dragonfly, pteranodon, or fossils themselves.
Wordless books invite the creativity and imagination of the readers.
Different readers create their own narration, voices, or sound effects to each page.
Readers write dialogue--the talk of the characters-- and description--words talking about what is happening on the page.
Workshop 3 Engaging Readers Through Surprise |
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View Poet's Novel Turns Young Sports Lovers into Book Lovers
2015 Newberry Medal Award Winner choice,
The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander, poet and author.
12. Would you have predicted that a book of poetry about basketball--communicating ideas and emotions and new vocabulary--would attract adolescent boys as readers?
13. Would a book of poetry telling stories have attracted YOU as a teen reader? Why? Why not?
14. A class of middle school students is WRITING with Kwame Alexander AS INSTRUCTOR.
What surprises you about the young writers, their writing and the class?
READING OPENS WORLDS
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/classroom/
https://www.onenote.com/learningtools Immersive Reader we all have free in our Microsoft 365 download from UMASS
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