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From: Laurel Balkema <balkemal>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 17:31:27 -0500
Sorry for having three messages show up yesterday. Your system returned the first two saying they were not deliverable, so I resent it. Laurel Balkema
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: CCBC-Net Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 (Out of the Office)
(Philip Crawford)
2. Struggling Readers: new comic series (Laurel Balkema)
3. Struggling Readers: new comic series (Laurel Balkema)
4. Struggling Readers: new comic series (Laurel Balkema)
5. Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (Kendal Kasuboski)
6. struggling readers (debrae123 at comcast.net)
7. Re: Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (sully at sully-writer.com)
8. Re: Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (AWR30 at aol.com)
9. Holocaust (Ruth I. Gordon)
10. Re: Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (Farnlacher, Stephanie)
11. Re: struggling readers (James Elliott)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:01:00 -0500 From: "Philip Crawford" <pcrawford at ejhs.k12.vt.us> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] CCBC-Net Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 (Out of the
Office) To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s551d519.095 at MAIL1.ejhs.k12.vt.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I will out of the office on November 8th -10th presenting at the ISMLA Conference. I will be back in the library on Monday, November, 13th.
Thanks,
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:47:48 -0500 From: "Laurel Balkema" <balkemal at gvsu.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Struggling Readers: new comic series To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s5521873.064 at gvsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
One of our local children's book authors, Sue Stauffacher (Donuthead, Donutheart, Harry Sue, and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders), has created a series of comics designed for late and reluctant readers that is available free for download from her website www.suestauffacher.com. This was part of a Dyer Ives grant she received along with Dr. Barbara Schneider, English Education Professor here at GVSU, to try to assess the reading interests and needs of the local Grand Rapids Public School students, grades 4 through 12..
"So enter Wireman, a very sophisticated comic series in storyline and graphics, yet very simple in language. In fact, any child who completes the first four issues will learn the 100 most common words in the English language, a common adult literacy strategy. These words comprise 50% of all that's written. I know that comics will work with at-risk readers of all ages. They are the perfect medium, guiding the struggling reader along with pictures, while the illustrations add a complexity to the story that appeals to an older child's intelligence. But traditional comics are mostly created for 17-25 year old males and are full of sex and gore and complex language. What we need is a new kind of comic that will suit our literacy purpose, hooking kids who now want to read because they can't get enough of the story line."
Sue is currently working on issues three and four, repackaging the first four issues with new covers and making the entire first volume available for sale (summer 2007). If, after reading issues one and two, you want to give feedback, or think your patrons would be interested in the wireman series either for library purchase or free download, just email Sue at sue at suestauffacher.com and she will let you know when issues 1-4 are available.
K. Laurel Balkema, Senior Reference Librarian Children's, & Young Adult Literature Collections Arts and Humanities Liaison Team Grand Valley State University Library One Campus Drive ALLENDALE MI 49401-9403 e:mail: balkemal at gvsu.edu phone: (616) 331-2631 fax: (616) 331-2895
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:55:53 -0500 From: "Laurel Balkema" <balkemal at gvsu.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Struggling Readers: new comic series To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s5521a55.031 at gvsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
One of our local children's book authors, Sue Stauffacher (Donuthead, Donutheart, Harry Sue, and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders), has created a series of comics designed for late and reluctant readers that is available free for download from her website www.suestauffacher.com. This was part of a Dyer Ives grant she received along with Dr. Barbara Schneider, English Education Professor here at GVSU, to try to assess the reading interests and needs of the local Grand Rapids Public School students, grades 4 through 12..
"So enter Wireman, a very sophisticated comic series in storyline and graphics, yet very simple in language. In fact, any child who completes the first four issues will learn the 100 most common words in the English language, a common adult literacy strategy. These words comprise 50% of all that's written. I know that comics will work with at-risk readers of all ages. They are the perfect medium, guiding the struggling reader along with pictures, while the illustrations add a complexity to the story that appeals to an older child's intelligence. But traditional comics are mostly created for 17-25 year old males and are full of sex and gore and complex language. What we need is a new kind of comic that will suit our literacy purpose, hooking kids who now want to read because they can't get enough of the story line."
Sue is currently working on issues three and four, repackaging the first four issues with new covers and making the entire first volume available for sale (summer 2007). If, after reading issues one and two, you want to give feedback, or think your patrons would be interested in the wireman series either for library purchase or free download, just email Sue at sue at suestauffacher.com and she will let you know when issues 1-4 are available.
K. Laurel Balkema, Senior Reference Librarian Children's, & Young Adult Literature Collections Arts and Humanities Liaison Team Grand Valley State University Library One Campus Drive ALLENDALE MI 49401-9403 e:mail: balkemal at gvsu.edu phone: (616) 331-2631 fax: (616) 331-2895
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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:13:28 -0500 From: "Laurel Balkema" <balkemal at gvsu.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Struggling Readers: new comic series To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s5521e64.019 at gvsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
One of our local children's book authors, Sue Stauffacher (Donuthead, Donutheart, Harry Sue, and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders), has created a series of comics designed for late and reluctant readers that is available free for download from her website www.suestauffacher.com. This was part of a Dyer Ives grant she received along with Dr. Barbara Schneider, English Education Professor here at GVSU, to try to assess the reading interests and needs of the local Grand Rapids Public School students, grades 4 through 12..
"So enter Wireman, a very sophisticated comic series in storyline and graphics, yet very simple in language. In fact, any child who completes the first four issues will learn the 100 most common words in the English language, a common adult literacy strategy. These words comprise 50% of all that's written. I know that comics will work with at-risk readers of all ages. They are the perfect medium, guiding the struggling reader along with pictures, while the illustrations add a complexity to the story that appeals to an older child's intelligence. But traditional comics are mostly created for 17-25 year old males and are full of lust, gore, and complex language. What we need is a new kind of comic that will suit our literacy purpose, hooking kids who now want to read because they can't get enough of the story line."
Sue is currently working on issues three and four, repackaging the first four issues with new covers and making the entire first volume available for sale (summer 2007). If, after reading issues one and two, you want to give feedback, or think your patrons would be interested in the wireman series either for library purchase or free download, just email Sue at sue at suestauffacher.com and she will let you know when issues 1-4 are available.
K. Laurel Balkema, Senior Reference Librarian Children's, & Young Adult Literature Collections Arts and Humanities Liaison Team Grand Valley State University Library One Campus Drive ALLENDALE MI 49401-9403 e:mail: balkemal at gvsu.edu phone: (616) 331-2631 fax: (616) 331-2895
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:30:19 -0600 From: Kendal Kasuboski <kasubk18 at uwosh.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <f49fb1e231b0d.45525a7b at uwosh.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Hello, I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders.? I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II.? After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project.? Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers?? Any feedback would be a great help!? Thanks!
Kendal University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Student Teacher
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Netters,
Please excuse this late entry on the strand of struggling readers, but I just read a comment that is the same question I ask year after year. Why do we have so many struggling readers in middle school? Last weekend at the TASL Convention, Tennessee Association of School Librarians, I asked several speakers this same question. Dr. Stephen Krashen, Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, felt like students do not have enough books in their home at a young age. This could be true for some. Our area is rural, but for the most part we are middle class working families. Next I talked with author, storyteller, and librarian, Walter M. Mayes. He seemed surprised that I had so many students reading on the second, third, or fourth grade level in the sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Mayes suggested I form a group of Middle School Students that could read to elementary students regularly.
Why do school systems wait until third grade to test students for reading problems? Why can't they be tested at Christmas time in the first grade? Then spend the rest of the year with a concentrated study of the element of reading that is causing the problem. My daughter had trouble reading in first grade and the school system I work for would not test her. My husband and I took her to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and had her tested. She is slightly graphic dyslectic, yet has a high IQ. For the next five summers we had her tutored in a particular reading program that concentrated on her problem. Slowly we began to see improvements. She is now in the seventh grade, reading above reading level and doing fine. Some of her friends have not fared so well. They were placed in a special education class in second or third grade and have not improved. WHY?
In the twenty-five years that I have taught middle school the same problem arises and for some reason it always amuses me? Parents come in and say what can you do for my child that is in the seventh grade and can't read? Sometime I will contact a parent and see how aware parents are of their child's reading ability. Of course we start several different tactics: books on tape, high low books, books on personal reading interest, and more time at school and home for reading. Is it not true that students brains learn to read faster from the age of five to nine than any other time? What are parents waiting for? What are school systems waiting for? Teachers know by Christmas who is having trouble and some of the time they may even know what the problem is, but our hands are tied to a curriculum with a pace where everyone must stay together. Wouldn't is be easier and cheaper to nip this problem before it gets started? The simple difference in control, peer pressure and attitude has to make teaching someone to read easier. Often when we peel back the layers of a stude nt wit h depression or unruly behavior we find they can't read well enough to follow the level of study. I know nothing about teaching the lower grades and maybe their is something I have missed.
love to hear your thoughts on this subject, Debra Evetts Librarian Greenbrier Middle School Greenbrier, TN evettsd at k12tn.net
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Message: 7 Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:23:25 -0700 From: sully at sully-writer.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: Kendal Kasuboski <kasubk18 at uwosh.edu> Cc: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID:
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If you are looking for Holocaust novels, I recommend any of the several Carol Matas has written on the subject.
Ed Sullivan
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-John Lennon-
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII
> From: Kendal Kasuboski <kasubk18 at uwosh.edu>
> Date: Wed, November 08, 2006 11:30 pm
> To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu
>
> Hello,
> I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders. I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II. After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project. Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers? Any feedback would be a great help! Thanks!
>
> Kendal
> University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
> Student Teacher
>
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Message: 8 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 07:45:39 EST From: AWR30 at aol.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: kasubk18 at uwosh.edu, ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <232.115a3dfb.32847cf3 at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
In a message dated 11/8/2006 11:31:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, kasubk18 at uwosh.edu writes:
Hello, I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders. I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II. After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project. Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers? Any feedback would be a great help! Thanks!
Kendal
Here are three exceptional books that deal with the topic on a very personal level.
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy (This one is written in free verse poetry) Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
Enjoy,
Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum
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Message: 9 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 07:55:08 -0800 From: "Ruth I. Gordon" <druthgo at sonic.net> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Holocaust To: CCBC Net <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <F32AB39C-9219-4550-8CB8-AC524408F73E at sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
Try: Emil and Karl
Anne Frank gives a denouement to Emil... and its publishing history is fascinating.
Big Grandma
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Message: 10 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:55:48 -0600 From: "Farnlacher, Stephanie" <SFarnlacher at hoover.k12.al.us> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: <CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID:
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Kendal,
I have just begun a graduate literature study on the topic of the affects of war on children, and believe I can send you a decent list of books - fiction, nonfiction, biography, and picture books - to review (I will compile and send it to you off-list tomorrow). However, I wanted to mention several to consider:
Shattered: Stories of Children and War (edited by Jennifer Armstrong) - A collaboration of short stories written by popular children and YA authors, they cover different wars, including WWII. The stories have very different perspectives on war - there is one story about a conscientious objector and another about two children who prefer war over peace because it allows them to live in luxurious abandoned houses and loot stores for food - during peacetime they have no shelter and no food. When I read it I found the stories so interesting that I wished they were longer. I can see many uses for this book, including using just one story as a read aloud, or assigning different stories to groups to read, discuss, and present. It also helps those who have difficulty reading a whole book.
The Shadow Children (Steven Schnur): I just started it last night, but it was Horn Book starred with the following review: "Etienne, a French boy, notices groups of ragged children near his grandfather's farm. Grandfather insists that the boy is imagining things; later, he reluctantly reveals a dark secret. During the war, the villagers had sheltered hundreds of Jewish children, but when the Nazis came, the townspeople were fearful for their own safety and only stood and watched as the children were taken away. The ghosts of these children have haunted the village ever since. A thought-provoking story of unredeemed guilt, ideal for class discussions."
Run, Boy, Run (and other works by Uri Orlev): A great book based on a true story of a Jewish boy trying to survive on his own during WWII. Uri Orlev is a Holocaust survivor, and it shows in the authenticity of his books. Another of his books, The Island on Bird Street, is considered to be semi-autobiographical.
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Kendal Kasuboski Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:30 PM To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII
Hello, I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders.? I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II.? After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project.? Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers?? Any feedback would be a great help!? Thanks!
Kendal University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Student Teacher
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Message: 11 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:31:19 -0400 From: "James Elliott" <J_C_Elliott at msn.com> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] struggling readers To: <debrae123 at comcast.net>, "LM_NET" <LM_NET at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> Cc: CCBC Net <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <BAY101-DAV3819D6A658CCE9C232F5EAFF00 at phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I can only relate my own experience with the public education system. My son has reading problems. We didn't know it until he had to change schools in first grade (re-zoning. He went to Kindergarten in one school, first grade a different school).
The teacher had about 35 students, 10 of which were from the other school. She just assumed that all of these student would do poorly since they were not used to new schools style. As a result, we were told my son was restless and wouldn't apply himself. When we asked about a possible learning problems, she dismissed this "He's just not used to my style. I recommend he be held back".
We took him on our own dime to be tested, and found out that yes, he had a learning disability, and immediately withdrew him from that school, and thanks to the McKay scholarship for children with learning disabilities, were able to put him in a private school dedicated to helping children with these problems. In a few years he was not only up to level, but reading above grade. Success! He's now in a regular school for 6th grade.
But I wonder about the other children who were not diagnosed, who went through her class, and beyond, with the notation "lazy, doesn't apply self to work" instead of being able to get real help. Then, when they get up to Middle School, the problem becomes more noticeable. That may NOT be the case in your situation, but something to think about.
Jim Elliott Tallahassee, Fl
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> Netters,
>
> Please excuse this late entry on the strand of struggling readers, but I
just read a comment that is the same question I ask year after year. Why do we have so many struggling readers in middle school? Last weekend at the TASL Convention, Tennessee Association of School Librarians, I asked several speakers this same question. Dr. Stephen Krashen, Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, felt like students do not have enough books in their home at a young age. This could be true for some. Our area is rural, but for the most part we are middle class working families. Next I talked with author, storyteller, and librarian, Walter M. Mayes. He seemed surprised that I had so many students reading on the second, third, or fourth grade level in the sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Mayes suggested I form a group of Middle School Students that could read to elementary students regularly.
>
> Why do school systems wait until third grade to test students for reading
problems? Why can't they be tested at Christmas time in the first grade? Then spend the rest of the year with a concentrated study of the element of reading that is causing the problem. My daughter had trouble reading in first grade and the school system I work for would not test her. My husband and I took her to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and had her tested. She is slightly graphic dyslectic, yet has a high IQ. For the next five summers we had her tutored in a particular reading program that concentrated on her problem. Slowly we began to see improvements. She is now in the seventh grade, reading above reading level and doing fine. Some of her friends have not fared so well. They were placed in a special education class in second or third grade and have not improved. WHY?
>
> In the twenty-five years that I have taught middle school the same problem
arises and for some
> reason it always amuses me? Parents come in and say what can you do for
my child that is in the seventh grade and can't read? Sometime I will contact a parent and see how aware parents are of their child's reading ability. Of course we start several different tactics: books on tape, high low books, books on personal reading interest, and more time at school and home for reading. Is it not true that students brains learn to read faster from the age of five to nine than any other time? What are parents waiting for? What are school systems waiting for? Teachers know by Christmas who is having trouble and some of the time they may even know what the problem is, but our hands are tied to a curriculum with a pace where everyone must stay together. Wouldn't is be easier and cheaper to nip this problem before it gets started? The simple difference in control, peer pressure and attitude has to make teaching someone to read easier. Often when we peel back the layers of a stude
> nt wit
> h depression or unruly behavior we find they can't read well enough to
follow the level of study. I know nothing about teaching the lower grades and maybe their is something I have missed.
>
> love to hear your thoughts on this subject,
> Debra Evetts
> Librarian
> Greenbrier Middle School
> Greenbrier, TN
> evettsd at k12tn.net
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Sorry for having three messages show up yesterday. Your system returned the first two saying they were not deliverable, so I resent it. Laurel Balkema
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Today's Topics:
1. Re: CCBC-Net Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 (Out of the Office)
(Philip Crawford)
2. Struggling Readers: new comic series (Laurel Balkema)
3. Struggling Readers: new comic series (Laurel Balkema)
4. Struggling Readers: new comic series (Laurel Balkema)
5. Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (Kendal Kasuboski)
6. struggling readers (debrae123 at comcast.net)
7. Re: Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (sully at sully-writer.com)
8. Re: Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (AWR30 at aol.com)
9. Holocaust (Ruth I. Gordon)
10. Re: Literature on Anne Frank & WWII (Farnlacher, Stephanie)
11. Re: struggling readers (James Elliott)
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Message: 1 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 13:01:00 -0500 From: "Philip Crawford" <pcrawford at ejhs.k12.vt.us> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] CCBC-Net Digest, Vol 16, Issue 8 (Out of the
Office) To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s551d519.095 at MAIL1.ejhs.k12.vt.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
I will out of the office on November 8th -10th presenting at the ISMLA Conference. I will be back in the library on Monday, November, 13th.
Thanks,
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Message: 2 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:47:48 -0500 From: "Laurel Balkema" <balkemal at gvsu.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Struggling Readers: new comic series To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s5521873.064 at gvsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
One of our local children's book authors, Sue Stauffacher (Donuthead, Donutheart, Harry Sue, and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders), has created a series of comics designed for late and reluctant readers that is available free for download from her website www.suestauffacher.com. This was part of a Dyer Ives grant she received along with Dr. Barbara Schneider, English Education Professor here at GVSU, to try to assess the reading interests and needs of the local Grand Rapids Public School students, grades 4 through 12..
"So enter Wireman, a very sophisticated comic series in storyline and graphics, yet very simple in language. In fact, any child who completes the first four issues will learn the 100 most common words in the English language, a common adult literacy strategy. These words comprise 50% of all that's written. I know that comics will work with at-risk readers of all ages. They are the perfect medium, guiding the struggling reader along with pictures, while the illustrations add a complexity to the story that appeals to an older child's intelligence. But traditional comics are mostly created for 17-25 year old males and are full of sex and gore and complex language. What we need is a new kind of comic that will suit our literacy purpose, hooking kids who now want to read because they can't get enough of the story line."
Sue is currently working on issues three and four, repackaging the first four issues with new covers and making the entire first volume available for sale (summer 2007). If, after reading issues one and two, you want to give feedback, or think your patrons would be interested in the wireman series either for library purchase or free download, just email Sue at sue at suestauffacher.com and she will let you know when issues 1-4 are available.
K. Laurel Balkema, Senior Reference Librarian Children's, & Young Adult Literature Collections Arts and Humanities Liaison Team Grand Valley State University Library One Campus Drive ALLENDALE MI 49401-9403 e:mail: balkemal at gvsu.edu phone: (616) 331-2631 fax: (616) 331-2895
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Message: 3 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 17:55:53 -0500 From: "Laurel Balkema" <balkemal at gvsu.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Struggling Readers: new comic series To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s5521a55.031 at gvsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
One of our local children's book authors, Sue Stauffacher (Donuthead, Donutheart, Harry Sue, and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders), has created a series of comics designed for late and reluctant readers that is available free for download from her website www.suestauffacher.com. This was part of a Dyer Ives grant she received along with Dr. Barbara Schneider, English Education Professor here at GVSU, to try to assess the reading interests and needs of the local Grand Rapids Public School students, grades 4 through 12..
"So enter Wireman, a very sophisticated comic series in storyline and graphics, yet very simple in language. In fact, any child who completes the first four issues will learn the 100 most common words in the English language, a common adult literacy strategy. These words comprise 50% of all that's written. I know that comics will work with at-risk readers of all ages. They are the perfect medium, guiding the struggling reader along with pictures, while the illustrations add a complexity to the story that appeals to an older child's intelligence. But traditional comics are mostly created for 17-25 year old males and are full of sex and gore and complex language. What we need is a new kind of comic that will suit our literacy purpose, hooking kids who now want to read because they can't get enough of the story line."
Sue is currently working on issues three and four, repackaging the first four issues with new covers and making the entire first volume available for sale (summer 2007). If, after reading issues one and two, you want to give feedback, or think your patrons would be interested in the wireman series either for library purchase or free download, just email Sue at sue at suestauffacher.com and she will let you know when issues 1-4 are available.
K. Laurel Balkema, Senior Reference Librarian Children's, & Young Adult Literature Collections Arts and Humanities Liaison Team Grand Valley State University Library One Campus Drive ALLENDALE MI 49401-9403 e:mail: balkemal at gvsu.edu phone: (616) 331-2631 fax: (616) 331-2895
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Message: 4 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 18:13:28 -0500 From: "Laurel Balkema" <balkemal at gvsu.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Struggling Readers: new comic series To: <ccbc-net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <s5521e64.019 at gvsu.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
One of our local children's book authors, Sue Stauffacher (Donuthead, Donutheart, Harry Sue, and Bessie Smith and the Night Riders), has created a series of comics designed for late and reluctant readers that is available free for download from her website www.suestauffacher.com. This was part of a Dyer Ives grant she received along with Dr. Barbara Schneider, English Education Professor here at GVSU, to try to assess the reading interests and needs of the local Grand Rapids Public School students, grades 4 through 12..
"So enter Wireman, a very sophisticated comic series in storyline and graphics, yet very simple in language. In fact, any child who completes the first four issues will learn the 100 most common words in the English language, a common adult literacy strategy. These words comprise 50% of all that's written. I know that comics will work with at-risk readers of all ages. They are the perfect medium, guiding the struggling reader along with pictures, while the illustrations add a complexity to the story that appeals to an older child's intelligence. But traditional comics are mostly created for 17-25 year old males and are full of lust, gore, and complex language. What we need is a new kind of comic that will suit our literacy purpose, hooking kids who now want to read because they can't get enough of the story line."
Sue is currently working on issues three and four, repackaging the first four issues with new covers and making the entire first volume available for sale (summer 2007). If, after reading issues one and two, you want to give feedback, or think your patrons would be interested in the wireman series either for library purchase or free download, just email Sue at sue at suestauffacher.com and she will let you know when issues 1-4 are available.
K. Laurel Balkema, Senior Reference Librarian Children's, & Young Adult Literature Collections Arts and Humanities Liaison Team Grand Valley State University Library One Campus Drive ALLENDALE MI 49401-9403 e:mail: balkemal at gvsu.edu phone: (616) 331-2631 fax: (616) 331-2895
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Message: 5 Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:30:19 -0600 From: Kendal Kasuboski <kasubk18 at uwosh.edu> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <f49fb1e231b0d.45525a7b at uwosh.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Hello, I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders.? I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II.? After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project.? Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers?? Any feedback would be a great help!? Thanks!
Kendal University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Student Teacher
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Netters,
Please excuse this late entry on the strand of struggling readers, but I just read a comment that is the same question I ask year after year. Why do we have so many struggling readers in middle school? Last weekend at the TASL Convention, Tennessee Association of School Librarians, I asked several speakers this same question. Dr. Stephen Krashen, Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, felt like students do not have enough books in their home at a young age. This could be true for some. Our area is rural, but for the most part we are middle class working families. Next I talked with author, storyteller, and librarian, Walter M. Mayes. He seemed surprised that I had so many students reading on the second, third, or fourth grade level in the sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Mayes suggested I form a group of Middle School Students that could read to elementary students regularly.
Why do school systems wait until third grade to test students for reading problems? Why can't they be tested at Christmas time in the first grade? Then spend the rest of the year with a concentrated study of the element of reading that is causing the problem. My daughter had trouble reading in first grade and the school system I work for would not test her. My husband and I took her to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and had her tested. She is slightly graphic dyslectic, yet has a high IQ. For the next five summers we had her tutored in a particular reading program that concentrated on her problem. Slowly we began to see improvements. She is now in the seventh grade, reading above reading level and doing fine. Some of her friends have not fared so well. They were placed in a special education class in second or third grade and have not improved. WHY?
In the twenty-five years that I have taught middle school the same problem arises and for some reason it always amuses me? Parents come in and say what can you do for my child that is in the seventh grade and can't read? Sometime I will contact a parent and see how aware parents are of their child's reading ability. Of course we start several different tactics: books on tape, high low books, books on personal reading interest, and more time at school and home for reading. Is it not true that students brains learn to read faster from the age of five to nine than any other time? What are parents waiting for? What are school systems waiting for? Teachers know by Christmas who is having trouble and some of the time they may even know what the problem is, but our hands are tied to a curriculum with a pace where everyone must stay together. Wouldn't is be easier and cheaper to nip this problem before it gets started? The simple difference in control, peer pressure and attitude has to make teaching someone to read easier. Often when we peel back the layers of a stude nt wit h depression or unruly behavior we find they can't read well enough to follow the level of study. I know nothing about teaching the lower grades and maybe their is something I have missed.
love to hear your thoughts on this subject, Debra Evetts Librarian Greenbrier Middle School Greenbrier, TN evettsd at k12tn.net
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Message: 7 Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:23:25 -0700 From: sully at sully-writer.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: Kendal Kasuboski <kasubk18 at uwosh.edu> Cc: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID:
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If you are looking for Holocaust novels, I recommend any of the several Carol Matas has written on the subject.
Ed Sullivan
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-John Lennon-
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> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII
> From: Kendal Kasuboski <kasubk18 at uwosh.edu>
> Date: Wed, November 08, 2006 11:30 pm
> To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu
>
> Hello,
> I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders. I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II. After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project. Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers? Any feedback would be a great help! Thanks!
>
> Kendal
> University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
> Student Teacher
>
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Message: 8 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 07:45:39 EST From: AWR30 at aol.com Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: kasubk18 at uwosh.edu, ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Message-ID: <232.115a3dfb.32847cf3 at aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
In a message dated 11/8/2006 11:31:01 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, kasubk18 at uwosh.edu writes:
Hello, I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders. I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II. After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project. Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers? Any feedback would be a great help! Thanks!
Kendal
Here are three exceptional books that deal with the topic on a very personal level.
Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli Yellow Star by Jennifer Roy (This one is written in free verse poetry) Hana's Suitcase by Karen Levine
Enjoy,
Andria Warmflash Rosenbaum
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Message: 9 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 07:55:08 -0800 From: "Ruth I. Gordon" <druthgo at sonic.net> Subject: [CCBC-Net] Holocaust To: CCBC Net <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <F32AB39C-9219-4550-8CB8-AC524408F73E at sonic.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed
Try: Emil and Karl
Anne Frank gives a denouement to Emil... and its publishing history is fascinating.
Big Grandma
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Message: 10 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:55:48 -0600 From: "Farnlacher, Stephanie" <SFarnlacher at hoover.k12.al.us> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII To: <CCBC-Net at ccbc.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID:
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Kendal,
I have just begun a graduate literature study on the topic of the affects of war on children, and believe I can send you a decent list of books - fiction, nonfiction, biography, and picture books - to review (I will compile and send it to you off-list tomorrow). However, I wanted to mention several to consider:
Shattered: Stories of Children and War (edited by Jennifer Armstrong) - A collaboration of short stories written by popular children and YA authors, they cover different wars, including WWII. The stories have very different perspectives on war - there is one story about a conscientious objector and another about two children who prefer war over peace because it allows them to live in luxurious abandoned houses and loot stores for food - during peacetime they have no shelter and no food. When I read it I found the stories so interesting that I wished they were longer. I can see many uses for this book, including using just one story as a read aloud, or assigning different stories to groups to read, discuss, and present. It also helps those who have difficulty reading a whole book.
The Shadow Children (Steven Schnur): I just started it last night, but it was Horn Book starred with the following review: "Etienne, a French boy, notices groups of ragged children near his grandfather's farm. Grandfather insists that the boy is imagining things; later, he reluctantly reveals a dark secret. During the war, the villagers had sheltered hundreds of Jewish children, but when the Nazis came, the townspeople were fearful for their own safety and only stood and watched as the children were taken away. The ghosts of these children have haunted the village ever since. A thought-provoking story of unredeemed guilt, ideal for class discussions."
Run, Boy, Run (and other works by Uri Orlev): A great book based on a true story of a Jewish boy trying to survive on his own during WWII. Uri Orlev is a Holocaust survivor, and it shows in the authenticity of his books. Another of his books, The Island on Bird Street, is considered to be semi-autobiographical.
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Kendal Kasuboski Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2006 10:30 PM To: ccbc-net at lists.ad.education.wisc.edu Subject: [CCBC-Net] Literature on Anne Frank & WWII
Hello, I know this is little off of this months topic, but I am planning a three week unit on Anne Frank with eighth graders.? I would like them to read a novel that correlates with World War II.? After completing the reading they would be using it for a variety of writing activities or a project.? Any ideas on books I could recommend my students who are at grade level, above grade level, and for struggling readers?? Any feedback would be a great help!? Thanks!
Kendal University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Student Teacher
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Message: 11 Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 23:31:19 -0400 From: "James Elliott" <J_C_Elliott at msn.com> Subject: Re: [CCBC-Net] struggling readers To: <debrae123 at comcast.net>, "LM_NET" <LM_NET at LISTSERV.SYR.EDU> Cc: CCBC Net <ccbc-net at ccbc.ad.education.wisc.edu> Message-ID: <BAY101-DAV3819D6A658CCE9C232F5EAFF00 at phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
I can only relate my own experience with the public education system. My son has reading problems. We didn't know it until he had to change schools in first grade (re-zoning. He went to Kindergarten in one school, first grade a different school).
The teacher had about 35 students, 10 of which were from the other school. She just assumed that all of these student would do poorly since they were not used to new schools style. As a result, we were told my son was restless and wouldn't apply himself. When we asked about a possible learning problems, she dismissed this "He's just not used to my style. I recommend he be held back".
We took him on our own dime to be tested, and found out that yes, he had a learning disability, and immediately withdrew him from that school, and thanks to the McKay scholarship for children with learning disabilities, were able to put him in a private school dedicated to helping children with these problems. In a few years he was not only up to level, but reading above grade. Success! He's now in a regular school for 6th grade.
But I wonder about the other children who were not diagnosed, who went through her class, and beyond, with the notation "lazy, doesn't apply self to work" instead of being able to get real help. Then, when they get up to Middle School, the problem becomes more noticeable. That may NOT be the case in your situation, but something to think about.
Jim Elliott Tallahassee, Fl
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> Netters,
>
> Please excuse this late entry on the strand of struggling readers, but I
just read a comment that is the same question I ask year after year. Why do we have so many struggling readers in middle school? Last weekend at the TASL Convention, Tennessee Association of School Librarians, I asked several speakers this same question. Dr. Stephen Krashen, Professor of Education at the University of Southern California, felt like students do not have enough books in their home at a young age. This could be true for some. Our area is rural, but for the most part we are middle class working families. Next I talked with author, storyteller, and librarian, Walter M. Mayes. He seemed surprised that I had so many students reading on the second, third, or fourth grade level in the sixth and seventh grades. Mr. Mayes suggested I form a group of Middle School Students that could read to elementary students regularly.
>
> Why do school systems wait until third grade to test students for reading
problems? Why can't they be tested at Christmas time in the first grade? Then spend the rest of the year with a concentrated study of the element of reading that is causing the problem. My daughter had trouble reading in first grade and the school system I work for would not test her. My husband and I took her to Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN and had her tested. She is slightly graphic dyslectic, yet has a high IQ. For the next five summers we had her tutored in a particular reading program that concentrated on her problem. Slowly we began to see improvements. She is now in the seventh grade, reading above reading level and doing fine. Some of her friends have not fared so well. They were placed in a special education class in second or third grade and have not improved. WHY?
>
> In the twenty-five years that I have taught middle school the same problem
arises and for some
> reason it always amuses me? Parents come in and say what can you do for
my child that is in the seventh grade and can't read? Sometime I will contact a parent and see how aware parents are of their child's reading ability. Of course we start several different tactics: books on tape, high low books, books on personal reading interest, and more time at school and home for reading. Is it not true that students brains learn to read faster from the age of five to nine than any other time? What are parents waiting for? What are school systems waiting for? Teachers know by Christmas who is having trouble and some of the time they may even know what the problem is, but our hands are tied to a curriculum with a pace where everyone must stay together. Wouldn't is be easier and cheaper to nip this problem before it gets started? The simple difference in control, peer pressure and attitude has to make teaching someone to read easier. Often when we peel back the layers of a stude
> nt wit
> h depression or unruly behavior we find they can't read well enough to
follow the level of study. I know nothing about teaching the lower grades and maybe their is something I have missed.
>
> love to hear your thoughts on this subject,
> Debra Evetts
> Librarian
> Greenbrier Middle School
> Greenbrier, TN
> evettsd at k12tn.net
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