WSRA Power Point from Teri Lesesne

1. READING LADDERS Taking readers from Point A To Point B and Beyond

2. crazy state laws I love to laugh…

3. Alaska Whispering in someone’s ear while he’s moose hunting is prohibited.

4. Florida If you tie an elephant to a parking meter, you must pay the same parking fee as you would for a vehicle.

5. Indiana The value of pi is 4, and not 3.1415.

6. New Jersey It’s against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.

7. Oklahoma It’s forbidden to take a bite out of another person’s hamburger.

8. Texas You may not shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.

9. What does all this have to do with reading?

10. and move forward into the century with Reading Ladders It’s time to change rules

11. http://professornana.livejournal.com Where to get materials?

12. Combines elements of Thematic unit Vertical alignment and planning Horizontal alignment and planning Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials Makes connections between and among books What IS a Reading Ladder?

13. WHY Reading Ladders? Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC NAEP indicates only 3% of students score at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

14. Where to begin? 2011 Award winners New books The canon?

15. 2011 Winners for Nonfiction

16. Nonfiction Reading Ladder Biographical or Historical

17. Biographical

18. Historical

19. 2011 Printz Winners Dystopia 1984 Brave New World Mad Max Hunger Games Chaos Walking

20. 2011 Printz Winners Different Directions Setting in frozen wasteland Teen having to defend self and family Guns

21. 2011 Printz Winners Lord of the Flies

22. How can we build ladders? Themes Genre Forms and formats

23. Humor Reading Ladder Development of Humor physical character situation language

24. Physical Humor

25. Situational Humor

26. Character-based humor

27. Language and Humor

28. More of the funny

29. Changing Landscape of Literacy and Literature New Books

30. Metafiction Ladder

31. metafiction

32. metafiction

33. metafiction

34. metafiction

35. The Canon

36. Canon to Contemporary

37. Canon to Contemporary

38. Canon to Contemporary

39. Canon to Contemporary

40. Canon to Contemporary