tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9226191220643416542024-02-20T17:25:09.490-08:00Fox Valley Reading CouncilKatina Kastrantashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01703894208508237062noreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922619122064341654.post-13300627027885486682016-07-13T13:57:00.000-07:002016-07-13T13:57:56.574-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Katina Kastrantashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01703894208508237062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922619122064341654.post-46603342963802352262016-03-13T20:47:00.004-07:002016-03-13T20:49:19.092-07:00Pam's books...<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Featuring stirring reading and writing robust assessment tools, ready-to-share Family Guides, and embedded videos that illuminate the 7 strengths and more, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every Child a Super Reader</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> shows teachers, parents, caregivers, and out-of-school providers why reading is the ultimate super power, opening a world of possible for every student.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pam received the 2013 Scholastic Literacy Champion Award, and is Scholastic’s Open a World of Possible Ambassador. She is a spokesperson for BIC Kids, championing BIC’s 2014 “</span><a href="http://bicfightforyourwrite.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #743399; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fight For Your Write</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">” campaign. Pam was selected as a mentor for the 2013 Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative Fellowship to help young Egyptian women develop leadership skills. She was chosen as an inaugural W.K. Kellogg Foundation Fellow in April 2014, becoming a part of a national cohort of 20 fellows focusing on racial healing and equity. She is on the Advisory Boards of the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement, James Patterson’s ReadKiddoRead, the Pearson Foundation’s We Give Books, and the Millennium Cities Initiative Social Sector.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pam is the author of many books, including her latest, co-authored with Ernest Morrell, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every Child a Super Reader: 7 Strengths to Open a World of Possible. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">She also wrote </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your Child’s Writing Life</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, (winner of the Mom’s Choice Award), </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">What To Read When: The Books and Stories To Read With Your Child–And All The Best Times To Read Them</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (winner of the National Parenting Magazine Award), and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pam Allyn’s Best Books for Boys: How To Engage Boys in Reading in Ways That Will Change Their Lives</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She has also contributed to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Complete Year</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> series (Scholastic) and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Homework Pages for Independent Reading</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> (Scholastic), among other titles. Her most recent curriculum series,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Core Ready</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.666666666666664px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, published in 2013, is a 14-book series focusing on the Common Core Learning Standards.</span></div>
<span id="docs-internal-guid-b0c4ace3-7336-993c-d033-2263191cff07"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'Shadows Into Light Two'; font-size: 18.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Pam is featured widely in the press and on the blogosphere as a reading expert for both home and school. She has been seen most recently on NBC News, CNN, and Al Jazeera, speaking to the power of education and literacy to transform lives and to create gender equity. Her work has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Show, Oprah Radio, The Huffington Post and in The New York Times.</span></span>Katina Kastrantashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01703894208508237062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922619122064341654.post-35465361288667991132016-03-13T20:40:00.002-07:002016-03-13T20:41:55.778-07:00Pam Allyn <div style="text-align: right;">
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Today my first middle grade novel,<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth </em>(Sterling, 2015) debuts in bookstores across the United States and Canada. <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zack Delacruz</em> was borne of a need for books that would speak to my students—the real students who crowded my classrooms for over twenty years. I wanted them to have books that reflected their diversity of culture and experience. I wanted them to have books that made them laugh and think. I wanted them read a book the way I devoured Henry Huggins. I wanted a book in which nothing truly horrific had to happen.</div>
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Don’t get me wrong, death and tragedy certainly raise the stakes in a plot and a multitude of books already do that well. A third-grade teacher recently told me about her class comparing and contrasting their read alouds for the year. A girl scrunched up her face and concluded, “If the grandma dies in this book, then someone will have died in every book we’ve read this year.”</div>
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Most middle grade children struggle on a regular basis with more than death or tragedy–bullying, invisibility, and other everyday problems that plague middle grade kids. This was my purpose for writing <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth. </em>I’d create a day-to-day romp through middle grade life, using the lens of humor to make sense of it all. While Henry Huggins nourished me as a reader, my experiences as a teacher in Title I urban schools nourished me as a writer. The vibrant talk and worries and exposure to what’s important to middle graders provided more drama than a writer could ask for. In fact, middle graders flare for drama drives the plot of <em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zack Delacruz</em>.</div>
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<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Zack Delacruz: Me and My Big Mouth</em> is not a book about diversity, though the characters are indeed diverse in culture and experience. It’s not an issue book either, though bullying and the over-simplified fixes often given to kids are explored. In the end, I hope readers are entertained—that they laugh and think and pick up another book. I hope they discover at our greatest depths that people are people. We all make mistakes. But what pulls us apart is a small matter when compared to what binds us together.</div>
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Everyday reading is for everyday life—I hope to help readers see life <strong style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #1c1c1c; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">clear<em style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 13.8px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ly</em></strong> now as Beverly Cleary showed me.</div>
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<br />Katina Kastrantashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01703894208508237062noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-922619122064341654.post-4628917555644942442015-11-08T17:29:00.001-08:002015-11-08T17:29:15.834-08:00Become an Illinois Reads Ambassador<div style="background-color: black; color: #efefef; font-family: tahoma, 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 12px; padding: 0px;">
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<span size="3" style="font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Working with the Illinois State Library, State Librarian, Jesse White, is the Honorary Chair. The Illinois Reads will focus on reading at home and in the classroom. Illinois Reads will also emphasize summer reading as a way to not only bring the family closer together but also to combat what is known as “summer learning loss” in children. Residents from Rockford to Carbondale and from Quincy to Danville will be able to partake in Family Literacy Nights sponsored by their local IRC chapters.</span></div>
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<span size="3" style="font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">As part of Illinois Reads, which will culminate in a statewide celebration of literacy during Secretary White’s Family Reading Night in November, classrooms, public and school libraries, community groups, and community bookstores throughout the state will feature the titles of 36 books in six separate age groupings. Please watch the Illinois Reads website for more information to be posted or consider becoming an </span><span size="3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span><span size="3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span size="4" style="color: #3366ff; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.illinoisreads.org/beanillinoisreadsambassador.html" id="ext-gen11594" style="color: #c24436; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_self"><span style="color: #3366ff; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Illinois Reads Ambassador</span></a></span></span><span size="3" style="font-size: small; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> today! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are excited to announce our first speaker of the year! </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Camille Blachowicz, Ph.D. is Professor Emeritus at the National College of Education of National Louis University. Currently she is Co-Principal Investigator of the Multifaceted Comprehensive Vocabulary Instruction Program. She is also co-director of The Reading Leadership Institute, a professional learning network of literacy staff developers housed at National Louis University. She has researched, written and presented extensively on the topic of vocabulary instruction which is the subject of three of her books including Teaching Vocabulary in All Classrooms and Teaching Academic Vocabulary K-8:Effective Practices Across the Curriculum. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Camille Blachowicz began her career as a classroom teacher and a reading specialist. As a university professor she directed the Reading Program, was chair of the Department of Reading and Language and was a Fulbright and Spencer Fellow and as well as co-editor of the Journal of Reading Behavior. Dr. Blachowicz has been a board member of the Literacy Research Association and continues to serve on many committees, boards, and commissions for professional organization and state and federal groups. </span></div>
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