“INSPIRING ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL

READERS AND WRITERS USING CHILDREN’S

LITERATURE”

Penn State Harrisburg

KDP CONVOCATION Dallas, Texas

“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on

the shelves.” Gilbert Highet

Let’s BRAINSTORM

What kinds of books and strategies can you use in your classroom to inspire reading and

writing?

Exploring How Exemplary Texts Improve Reading and Writing

Model the Writing Process

Use in Set inductions

Create own class books

Teaching Cause and

Effect.

Exemplary TextsLesson Ideas

Using Exemplary Texts to Teach English Concepts

Picture book about

Langston Hughes poem “My People”.

GENRE: Poetry

Poem based off Martin Luther King’s “I Have A

Dream Speech”.GENRE: Poetry

This book is a collection of

Langston Hughes poems.

GENRE: Poetry

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one. (George R.R. Martin)

Kindergarten to 2nd Grade

2nd Grade to 5th Grade

Grades 6, 7, & 8

Exemplary TextsLesson Ideas

Using Exemplary Texts to Teach Social Studies Concepts

This is a book that teaches multiple

perspectives on Japanese internment, and

elements of letter writing”.

GENRE: Non-Fiction

This is a book that describes aspects of the camps from the

point of view from the children.

GENRE: Non-Fiction

“It is from numberless acts of courage that human history is shaped. Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the life of others, or strikes out against injustice, he or she sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls

of oppression and resistance.”Robert F. Kennedy

Using Exemplary Texts to Teach Comprehension Skills and Concepts

Exemplary TextsLesson Ideas

“I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns”. (Malala Yousafzai)

Picture book about teaching animal, moods, exercise, and

inference.Genre: Picture

Book

Picture book about the relationship between father

and son, and role reversal.

GENRE: Folklore

K.2nd

Research-Based Strategies Literature As a Catalyst for

Writing

Reading as a way to acquire

vocabulary

Notebooks are

sources

Authors as

mentors Literature Genres as

writing models“For all I know, writing

comes out of a superior devotion to reading.”

Eudora Welty

Thanks for Attending Our Workshop !

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We Will Also Be at

1. Book Making in the Writing Classroom (Saturday, 2:00 – 3:30)

1. Weaving Poetry Throughout The Curriculum (Saturday, 2:00 – 3:30)

1. Successful Classroom Management, Successful Classroom (Saturday 2:00 – 3:30)ENJOY THE REST OF CONVO !