Participate and share: Poster 
The objective of this workshop is to engage with current tools like social media and online platforms to see how they can be used to connect with our most hesitant readers. By getting to see examples of these tools and how they are used, attendees can play around with them and decide what would be best for their own students and classrooms.
The truth is we all have hesitant readers in our classroom. Their reading lives vary for a variety of reasons, but we have the opportunity to create connections with readers like never before. By leveraging tools that they use in their everyday lives like social media and other online platforms, we can bring more readers into the fold. They can connect with authors, share their experience and thinking in reviews that have an authentic audience, or create expressions of their reading that show their unique skills and talents. By realizing their love of reading can be as diverse as they are, we get to see all students find their own personal love of reading that will make it a more consistent part of their daily and academic lives.
With 3-4 student presenters we will be able to share and demonstrate how students have leveraged technology to expand and enhance their reading lives. They will each have a few different tools that they love and be able to show them and model them for attendees while answering any questions that arise. Students will have their devices to be able to show work examples and tools that allow attendees to click along. Attendees can spend as much or as little time as they like with each student since each one will have different tools to share. This would be more of a peer-to-peer interaction with a device involved. Attendees will then be able to take the resources with them in digital form so that they can play with them when they have more time to explore.
"Cultivating Genius" - Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
"Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Glass Doors" - Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop
"The Book Whisperer" - Donalyn Miller
"Voice and Choice" - Edutopia
"Giving Students Voice and Choice" - Greatschools.org
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