Faculty Brown Bag Spreading Literacy One Syllable at
Faculty Brown Bag: Spreading Literacy One Syllable at a Time College of Humanities & Sciences Jenna Pavleck, Erica Letourneau, Kristen Mc. Quinn March 8, 2018
Presenters Jenna Pavleck Erica Letourneau Kristen Mc. Quinn
Agenda • Making the Case • Volunteer Opportunities • Community Activities • Public Library Resources • In Your Classroom • Questions
Definition “Literacy is the ability to use printed and written information to function in society, to achieve one's goals, and to develop one's knowledge and potential” (White & Mc. Closkey, as cited in U. S. Department of Education, n. d. ).
How Does the U. S. Compare? (U. S. Department of Education, 2014)
How Does the U. S. Compare? (U. S. Department of Education, 2014)
Literature Overview Literacy development can be impacted by: • Home literacy environment. • Parental involvement. • Cognitive abilities. • Educational levels. • Societal influences. • Book exposure. • Interventions and initiatives.
Book Exposure There is a direct correlation between print exposure and literacy skills across all education levels. • Leisure reading can support development of reading comprehension, technical reading skills, oral language accusation, and also support academic success across subjects (Sullivan & Brown, 2013). • There is a reciprocal relationship between print exposure and reading proficiency (Mol & Bus, 2011). • Although quality can impact development of specific skills, interest is a key factor, and all reading is encouraged (Wilhelm, 2016).
Volunteer Opportunities with Children Volunteering as a reading partner or reading tutor can help to: • Expose children to books. • Inspire a love of reading. • Set the stage for future learning. • Improve future academic and professional success. • Provide positive role models.
Book Buddies and Other Partnerships Book Buddies Program www. berksarl. org/progra ms/book-buddies/ (Animal Rescue League of Berks County, Inc. 2018)
Volunteer Opportunities with Adults Volunteering as a reading partner or reading tutor with adults can help to: • Empower adults to reach their full potential in society. • Improve professional opportunities and financial stability. • Improve health (Easton, et. al, 2013). • Improve quality of life.
Gifting and Donations Give books as gifts! • For birthdays, holidays, and other special occasions. • Buy gift cards to Amazon, Audible, Book. Depository. com, or other book or audiobook outlets. • Donate books to schools and charitable organizations.
Little Free Libraries • Free book exchange -- "Take a book, return a book" https: //littlefreelibrary. org. • 501(c)(3) with a mission to spread "literacy, community, and creativity. " • As of 2017, over 60, 000 registered Little Free Libraries in all U. S. states and over 80 countries. • Chartered vs. Non-chartered. Little Free Library® is a registered trademark of Little Free Library, LTD, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
Little Free Library, cont. Criticism Help for book deserts or fun for privileged readers? Book deserts: • Homes containing fewer than 25 books (Mc. Guffee, as cited in La. Rue, 2014). • "Neighborhoods of concentrated poverty" (Neuman & Moland, 2016). Image by Michael Mc. Guffee (Unite for Literacy) [CC BY-SA 4. 0 (https: //creativecommons. org/licenses/by-sa/4. 0)], via Wikimedia Commons
Little Free Library, cont. Criticism, cont. • Schmidt and Hale (2017) "Little Free Libraries: Interrogating the Impact of the Branded Book Exchange. " • "One does not need the assistance of a non-profit corporation to share books with their neighbours. . . The primary organizational goal of LFL is to build more LFLs" (Schmidt & Hale, 2017, pp. 1819).
Little Free Library, continued The Impact Library Program Looking for people to steward libraries in book deserts and/or areas needing community building. Selected recipients agree to: • Set up and maintain LFL for at least one year. • Take pictures and share story with LFL organization. • Hold at least one neighbor activity in first year (reading groups, story hour, etc).
Little Free Library, continued East Church LFL Concord, NH Charter # 23860 • One of church's missions; built from recycled materials by church member. • All genres, not limited to religion. • Erected 2015. • Facebook Page started in spring 2016: https: //www. facebook. com/East. C hurch. Little. Free. Library/. • Only one issue: stolen guest book.
Book. Crossing "Read and Release" book tracking site Mission: To connect people through books. • Launched April 21, 2001. • 1, 853, 495 Book. Crossers. • 12, 301, 908 books. • 132 countries.
Libraries Affect Literacy • Libraries with reading programs are associated with higher reading scores. • Communities with public libraries tend to have higher overall literacy rates (ALA. org). • Reading at home is the most important influence in early literacy (Krolak, 2005).
Get to Know Your Library System and Resources • It’s free! • Use the hold lists. • Make requests if the library doesn’t have something.
Get to Know Your Library System and Resources • Use Interlibrary Loans (ILL). • Participate in library programs. • Get book recommendations from the librarians. • Get cards for multiple libraries. • Library sales.
Audiobooks • "No statistically significant differences were found for any analyses pertaining to effects of the three different instructional conditions on comprehension" immediately after or at a longer time after reading an ebook, listening to an audiobook, or doing both at once (Rogowsky, Calhoun, Tallal, 2016, p. 1). • Decoding process becomes automatic after a while, so there's no difference in brain activity required between reading and listening. • Studies going back even to the 1970 s show that listeners and readers were able to retain an equal understanding of passages (Kintsch & Kozminsky, 1977).
Library Apps – Libby/Over. Drive • In your phone’s app store, search for Libby or Over. Drive. • Add in your library card/account info. • From your phone, the app’s landing page will look similar to Figure 1
Libby • From the right side of the app, there are three lines. • Figure 2 shows the main menu, where you can change libraries, your notification settings, preferences, etc. Figure 2
Libby • At the bottom of your Libby app, you can see buttons for “library” or for “shelf. ” Library is where you want to go to search. Shelf is where you go to listen to the audiobooks you have checked out. Figure 3
Libby - actions • In the Actions menu for each book, you can: – Renew. – Return. – Send to another device. – Tag the audiobook. – View the title’s metadata. Figure 4
Library Apps - Hoopla • Similar to Libby, somewhat fewer restrictions on time. • Smaller archives. Figure 5
Hoopla - search Figure 6 Figure 7
Hoopla – filtered results Figure 8
Hoopla - recommends • Not sure what you want to read or listen to? • From Hoopla homepage, click on one of the links at the top. Figure 9
Library Apps – Chrome Library Extension • Library Extension is an easy way to check local libraries’ inventories. • https: //www. libraryextensio n. com/ • Add any local library. Figure 10
Library Extension - results Figure 11
What You Can Do In Your Classes • Create content specific reading lists. • Reference books in the class discussions. • Pay attention to individual student interests. • Encourage reading in private discussions. • Guide students to resources in the Center for Writing Excellence.
References Book. Crossing. (n. d. ). About Book. Crossing. Retrieved from https: //www. bookcrossing. com/about Easton, P. , Entwistle, V. A. , & Williams, B. (2013). How the stigma of low literacy can impair patient-professional spoken interactions and affect health: Insights from a qualitative investigation. BMC Health Services Research, 13, 319. http: //dx. doi. org. contentproxy. phoenix. edu/10. 1186/1472 -6963 -13 -319 Kintsch, W. , & Kozminsky, E. (1977). Summarizing stories after reading and listening. Journal of Educational Psychology, 69(5), 491 -499. Krolak, L. (2005). The Role of Libraries in the Creation of Literate Environments. Background paper prepared for the Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2006 Literacy for Life. Retrieved from https: //www. ifla. org/files/assets/literacy-and-reading/publications/role-oflibraries-in-creation-of-literate-environments. pdf
References La. Rue, J. (2014, March 4). The price is right at Unite for Literacy. American Libraries. Retrieved from https: //americanlibrariesmagazine. org/blogs/econtent/the-price-is-right-at-unite-for-literacy/ Little Free Library. (n. d. ). About the Impact Library Program. Retrieved from https: //littlefreelibrary. org/impact-about/ Mol, S. E. , & Bus, A. G. (2011). To read or not to read: A meta-analysis of print exposure from infancy to early adulthood. Psychological Bulletin, 137(2), 267296. http: //dx. doi. org. contentproxy. phoenix. edu/10. 1037/a 0021890 Neuman, S. B. , & Moland, N. (2016). Book deserts: The consequences of income segregation on children's access to print. Urban Education, 10. 1177/0042085916654525 Rogowsky, B. A. , Calhoun, B. M. , & Tallal, P. (2016). Does modality matter? the effects of reading, listening, and dual modality on comprehension. SAGE Open, 6(3)10. 1177/2158244016669550
References Schmidt, J. , & Hale, J. (2017). Little Free Libraries: Interrogating the impact of the branded book exchange. Journal of Radical Librarianship, 3, 1441. Sullivan, A. , & Brown, M. (2015). Reading for pleasure and progress in vocabulary and mathematics. British Educational Research Journal, 41(6), 971 -991. 1002/berj. 3180 U. S. Department of Education/National Center for Education Statistics. (n. d. ). National Assessment of Adult Literacy. Retrieved from https: //nces. ed. gov/naal/fr_definition. asp U. S. Department of Education/National Center for Education Statistics. (2014). PIAAC 2012/2014 Results. Retrieved from https: //nces. ed. gov/surveys/piaac/results/summary. aspx
References Wilhelm, J. D. (2016). Recognising the power of pleasure: What engaged adolescent readers get from their free-choice reading, and how teachers can leverage this for all. Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, the, 39(1), 30 -41.
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