Tamara Ingalls EDSL 520 Reading promotion program AASL Plan Worksheet Goal: For students to read more diverse books and to enjoy reading more. Objective: The school librarian will work with students (and teachers where applicable) to get students interested in reading books with more diversity by having students color a world map of places covered in nooks they are reading. Target Groups: Elementary school students at the school. Strategies: What? Students would be introduced to the reading around the world contest in their library time. Each student will be provided a map with the countries of the world on it. Students will be encouraged to read books from a variety of settings. Particularly settings that are unknown to them. Students will fill out their map for each book they read that takes place in a new location. For example, students would fill in Mexico following a reading of Esperanza Rising. The librarian will read a book with a new setting when introducing the activity. The librarian will then help students fill in their maps by coloring the country and writing what book took place in this country. Students will bring their maps to the library after they have filled in five new locations. For every 5 locations read about, students will earn a small prize. Prizes can be small items like pencils and erasers. For every five locations students read about they will be given on entry into the grand prize drawing. The grand prize would be a book. The grand prize would be drawn from each grade level in order to ensure a fairer contest. Students would be able to select the book they want to take home after they have won for their grade level. This contest would not only encourage students to read more diverse books, it would also expose students to locations and cultures that they may have never heard about. This contest will
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Tamara Ingalls EDSL 520Reading promotion program
AASL Plan Worksheet
Goal: For students to read more diverse books and to enjoy reading more.
Objective: The school librarian will work with students (and teachers where applicable) to get students interested in reading books with more diversity by having students color a world map of places covered in nooks they are reading.
Target Groups: Elementary school students at the school. Strategies:
What? Students would be introduced to the reading around the world contest in their library time. Each student will be provided a map with the countries of the world on it. Students will be encouraged to read books from a variety of settings. Particularly settings that are unknown to them. Students will fill out their map for each book they read that takes place in a new location. For example, students would fill in Mexico following a reading of Esperanza Rising. The librarian will read a book with a new setting when introducing the activity. The librarian will then help students fill in their maps by coloring the country and writing what book took place in this country.
Students will bring their maps to the library after they have filled in five new locations. For every 5 locations read about, students will earn a small prize. Prizes can be small items like pencils and erasers. For every five locations students read about they will be given on entry into the grand prize drawing. The grand prize would be a book. The grand prize would be drawn from each grade level in order to ensure a fairer contest. Students would be able to select the book they want to take home after they have won for their grade level.
This contest would not only encourage students to read more diverse books, it would also expose students to locations and cultures that they may have never heard about. This contest will also help with students’’ ideas about geography. In coloring in a country that they have read about students will be able to visualize where on the earth countries are located and relative distances between these locations. Students can also use this activity to bridge into learning more about a location or culture that they read about and would like to learn more. This contest should open students to new information and hopefully pique their interests about the world as a whole.
Why? Setting up a contest for students to color a world map of places they have read about encourages students to read books that cover more diverse people and areas then they would have normally selected. This will give students an appreciation of the different cultures, people, customs, and paces that they are not normally exposed to. In having students get an extrinsic reward for every 5 places they read about and be entered to win a grand prize students will be more willing to read books of differing topics.
Student will solely compete against their class level peers for prizes. This will ensure that though younger students are able to read shorter books older students who read longer books will not be penalized when it comes to prize awarding.
When? This program would last all of third quarter quarter. This enables students maximum time to read while not being too long where they would forget about the contest. The librarian would introduce it to all classes and hand out the world maps. At the end of the quarter students will be entered into a drawing.
Who? The librarian will be responsible for primary advertising of the activity. This person will also be responsible for introducing the activity and sharing some books that students can mark off of their maps. Teachers will also introduce book of varying diversity to help students with their activity. Teachers and other staff members will be invited to participate in the activity to help promote positive reading habits for students. Teacher and staff member maps will be hung in the library for students to see. Staff will come to the library to mark books on their map.
How? Elementary students are often stuck reading the same books or the same types of books due to a comfort level. Many students also have a limited world view and know very little about anywhere that is not very close to where they live. In creating a program that encourages students to read books that have a setting that is new and unusual to them, they will have a greater appreciation for the world as a whole. Students will be exposed to a variety of books and through these students will learn not only about new locations in the world but also the people that live there.
Communication Tools: The reading around the world contest will be advertised though flyers posted in the school, information on the school-wide morning and afternoon announcements, and information on the library website. Language arts teachers could remind students of the contest to help to spread the word further. Language arts teachers can also do book talks and read alouds of books from diverse locations.
Evaluation: These lunch programs will be evaluated by the amount of students who participate in the program. The program will also be evaluated by the rate of books checked out in the library that have worldly settings. Students will be polled about how likely they are to read a book that contains a new setting as well as if they have learned about new locations.
Evaluation:
How many new locations did you read about?_________________________________________
What was your favorite book that took place in a new location?_________________________________________
5 is very likely 1 is not likely
Before this program how likely were you to read a book with a setting you were not familiar with?5 4 3 2 1
After this program how likely were you to read a book with a setting you were not familiar with? 5 4 3 2 1
How likely are you to continue searching out and reading books with unknown settings? 5 4 3 2 1
How likely are you to suggest a book with a new setting to a friend? 5 4 3 2 1
Sample Flyer:
Read your way around the world in your library!
Get your map from the librarian.
Read about far off places!
Learn about new people!
Get a prize for every 5 new places you read about.
Be entered for the GRAND PRIZE.
Contest runs until April 3, 2015Sample Flyer 2:
Read around the world!
Read books which take place in new locations & win prizes!
Contest runs for all of 3rd quarter.
Bring your map to the library to be entered in the grand prize drawing.
