Motivating Young Readers in Your Classroom

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Motivating Young Readersin Your Classroom

• EDC423
• Dr. Julie Coiro

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Todays Learning Objectives

• Synthesize key ideas about motivation, classroom
  culture and literacy instruction
• Bookmarks, John Guthrie CORI, Technology
• Identify the main idea vs. a big idea
• Discuss ways to launch a book (pre-reading
  activity) to engage readers with the big idea
  (will carry over to next class)

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Housekeeping

• Return Book Activity 2 Strategy Interview
• Additional Resources on the wiki about designing
  your classroom community

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Think-Aloud Inferring Example

• Model (give multiple examples ask questions
  later) Define (give explicit definition) and
  give a purpose/use for
• Bear was dressed in his finest coat and vest. He
  was wearing his best derby hat and his shiniest
  shoes.
• Im inferring that Bear is trying to impress
  people and be the best he can be, because I am
  reading words like finest and best and
  thinking that this means something special is
  coming.

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What is literacy motivation?

• The reasons, purposes, and goals for reading and
  writing -
• They are multidimensional (many levels and
  layers) and diverse (many reasons)
• Do you like to read? Write?
• Are you good at reading? Writing?
• What do you read? What do you write?
• Why do you read? Why do you write?

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Types of motivation
Sweet Guthrie, 1996

• Intrinsic motivations
• Goals that are internal to the learner and guided
  by personal interests and private experiences
  (curiosity, involvement, social interaction, and
  challenge)
• Extrinsic motivations
• Goals that originate outside the learner (often
  guided by parents and/or teachers) - guided by
  points, stars, external rewards

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Eight distinct motivations for literacy (Sweet
Guthrie, 1996)

• Involvement
• Curiosity
• Challenge
• Social Interaction
• Compliance motivation
• Recognition
• Competition
• Work Avoidance

INTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Needed for Integrated instruction and
self-directed learning
EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION
Needed for skill-building in a sequential
curriculum
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Why is motivation important?
Cornett, Ch. 6

• Intrinsically motivated readers are...
• more proficient readers
• more knowledgeable gt higher achievers
• purposeful and goal-directed
• more likely to see learning as fun
• willing to work hard
• Motivating tasks, texts, teachers, and classroom
  contexts create motivated learners

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John Guthrie (Concept Oriented Reading
Instruction) CORI

• MOTIVATING
• Success
• Thematic Reading
• Choice
• Relevance
• Collaboration
• Respect, safety, clarity, helpful

• NOT MOTIVATING
• Failure no feedback
• Fragmented topics
• No control over choice
• Hard to relate to
• Only independent reading
• Fear, unimportance, unwillingness to scaffold

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CORI In the Classroom (Grade 3 Weather Unit)
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John Guthrie, Univ. of Maryland
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My Bookmark for Chapter 6ABCIC7Plus

• Students need A, B, Cs .
• Achievement
• Belonging
• Control
• Teachers provide IC7Plus
• Interesting topics
• Choice, Control, Challenging Content,
  Collaboration Community, Constructive Feedback
  (I see, I hear, I noticed)
• Plus technology (diverse multimedia texts))

I C 7 Plus
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Online Reading Locations to Motivate Young
Readers

• Theres TONS of informational text at a reading
  level kids can enjoy!

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Identifying the Main Ideas and Big Idea and
then..Launching a Book to Engage Readers with
The Big Idea
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Motivating students with Big Ideas

• Main Ideas Summaries of key points in the text
• Big Idea An important truth or message about
  people and the world that is worth understanding
• Linking books to big ideas emphasizes the
  RELEVANCE of reading for a purpose

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Main Idea vs. Big IdeaYou Try

• Main Idea
• Big Idea

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Main Idea vs. Big Idea

• Main Idea Mollys grandmother teaches her how to
  stay happy when her friends pick on her
• Big Idea Confidence and pride give you strength
  when things get hard
• Extend, Connect, and Engage gtgt

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Main ideas Authors Craft
Grandma says Helped me to
Walk proudly Shrimpo
Smile teeth Baby teeth
Sing out clear Honk Quack
Believe in yourself Beautiful snowflake
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Main Idea vs. Big IdeaYou Try

• Main Idea
• Big Idea
• Extend, Connect, Engage gtgt

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Teachers Modeling Big Ideas
Gr. 3 Each Little Bird That Sings What do your
conversations say about you?
Gr. 4 Trumpet of the Swan How does an
important learning experience affect a persons
life?
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What quick technique is used to draw readers in?
I know theres a way to get the honey from comb
into the jar, but I just cant figure it out. But
professional beekeepers like Dave Smith can fill
a jar like this and a hundred others in no time
at all!
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Launching A Book To Engage Readers with The Big
Idea
In a neighborhood, you can getto know people who
aredifferent than you and end up being great
friends.
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Students Crafting Big Ideas
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How would you launch these books with the big
idea in mind?
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A motivating book launch should include

• Activating background knowledge
• Introducing relevant vocabulary
• Connecting to childrens lives
• Setting a purpose related to the big idea

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Big Ideas and Preparing to Read

• Talk about the main idea and record your ideas.
• Talk about the big idea and record your ideas.
• Think about both to create a launch for your
  text.
• Write your launch ideas and prepare to share in
  class next time.

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Homework

• Prepare for Book Launch (2-3 mins each)
• Read Chapter 4 Assessing Learners to Plan and
  Differentiate Instruction
• Using the Five Factors (learner, task, text,
  context, and teaching) for Assessment
• What is Assessment for Learning and how does it
  relate to differentiated instruction?
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