READING LADDERS

Taking readers from Point A To Point B and Beyond

crazy state laws

I love to laugh…

Alaska

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

Florida

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

Indiana

The value of pi is 4, and not 3.1415.

New Jersey

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

Oklahoma

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

Texas

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

WHAT DOES ALL THIS HAVE TO DO WITH READING?

and move forward into the century with Reading Ladders

It’s time to change rules

http://professornana.livejournal.com

Where to get materials?

Wh

at

IS a

Read

ing

Lad

der?

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

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)

Where to begin?

2011 Award winners

New books

The canon?

2011 Winners for Nonfiction

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Biographical or Historical

Biographical

Historical

2011 Printz Winners

Dystopia 1984 Brave New World Mad Max Hunger Games Chaos Walking

2011 Printz Winners

Different Directions

Setting in frozen wasteland

Teen having to defend self and family

Guns

2011 Printz Winners

Lord of the Flies

How can we build ladders?

Themes

Genre

Forms and formats

Humor Reading Ladder

Development of Humor

physical

character

situation

language

Physical Humor

Situational Humor

Character-based humor

Language and Humor

More of the funny

Changing Landscape of Literacy and Literature

New Books

Metafiction Ladder

metafiction

metafiction

metafiction

metafiction

The Canon

Canon to Contemporary

Canon to Contemporary

Canon to Contemporary

Canon to Contemporary

Canon to Contemporary