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Page 1: Alaska 2012

How to Contact Me

Email

doctorLshsuedu

Twitter

professornana

Facebook

Teri Lesesne

Back Channel

Post questions comments etc here during the day

wwwtodaysmeetcomAlaska

The room will be archived for one year so you can go back and see links quotes etc

Materials

wwwslidesharenetProfessorNana

Making the Match

Knowing Kids

Knowing the Books

Knowing strategies to bring them together

Pavlov

Complexity of Kids

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 2: Alaska 2012

Back Channel

Post questions comments etc here during the day

wwwtodaysmeetcomAlaska

The room will be archived for one year so you can go back and see links quotes etc

Materials

wwwslidesharenetProfessorNana

Making the Match

Knowing Kids

Knowing the Books

Knowing strategies to bring them together

Pavlov

Complexity of Kids

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 3: Alaska 2012

Materials

wwwslidesharenetProfessorNana

Making the Match

Knowing Kids

Knowing the Books

Knowing strategies to bring them together

Pavlov

Complexity of Kids

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 4: Alaska 2012

Making the Match

Knowing Kids

Knowing the Books

Knowing strategies to bring them together

Pavlov

Complexity of Kids

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 5: Alaska 2012

Pavlov

Complexity of Kids

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 6: Alaska 2012

Complexity of Kids

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 7: Alaska 2012

Ed Psych 101 Revisited

Piaget

Maslow

Kohlberg

Havighurst

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 8: Alaska 2012

Piagetian

ConcreteNow begins as kids transition from middle school to

high school

Does not mean transition is complete just underway

Questions need scaffolding

AbstractTheme

Drawing conclusions

Inferencing

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 9: Alaska 2012

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 10: Alaska 2012

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 11: Alaska 2012

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 12: Alaska 2012

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 13: Alaska 2012

Piaget and Books

Concrete Abstract

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 14: Alaska 2012

PiagetJust because it looks

like thisDoes not mean it is

concrete

0 ldquoHe pinched my belly bu10rdquo

0 ldquoI think yoursquoll sur5 (They just do this 4 a10tion)rdquo

0 ldquoThey are in a 4eign country

0Their 2r guide is transl8tingrdquo

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 15: Alaska 2012

Maslow and Needs

Start at bottom of the hierarchy

Find books where characters are dealing with same needs

Important topics

Belonging

Esteem

Safety

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 16: Alaska 2012

Esteem

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 17: Alaska 2012

Esteem

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 18: Alaska 2012

Belonging

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 19: Alaska 2012

Belonging

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 20: Alaska 2012

Safety

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 21: Alaska 2012

Safety

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 22: Alaska 2012

Kohlberg and Morals

0 Preconventional0 Reward

0 Punishment

0 Conventional0 Follow the conventions (laws)

0 Secular

0 Religious

0 Post conventional0 No law supersedes value of human life

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 23: Alaska 2012

Preconventional

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 24: Alaska 2012

Preconventional

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 25: Alaska 2012

Conventional

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 26: Alaska 2012

Conventional

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 27: Alaska 2012

Post Conventional

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 28: Alaska 2012

Postconventional

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 29: Alaska 2012

Havighurst

0Working for pay

0Easy relationship with opposite sex

0 Changing relationships with peers

0 Finding a vocation

0Determining appropriate sex role

0Refining morals and values

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 30: Alaska 2012

Working for pay

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 31: Alaska 2012

Easy relationship with opposite sex

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 32: Alaska 2012

Changing relationships with peers

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 33: Alaska 2012

Finding a vocation

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 34: Alaska 2012

Determining appropriate sex role

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 35: Alaska 2012

Refining morals and values

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 36: Alaska 2012

Oldies but Goodies

Gathering readers instead of gathering dust

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 37: Alaska 2012

Remember these

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 38: Alaska 2012

How about these

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 39: Alaska 2012

Or perhaps these

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 40: Alaska 2012

Maybe these

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 41: Alaska 2012

Narrowing Choices

Where are the good books hiding

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 42: Alaska 2012

httpimaginationsoupnet201207the-best-picture-books-of-

summer-2012GIANT I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE WITH YOU PREPARE YOURSELF AND LET US BEGINrdquoThe Cyclops stared at Henry and Henry stared backThe stared and stared until Henry could stare no longer

ldquoENOUGH LONE-EYErdquo Henry shouted ldquoYOU HAVE HAD TIME APLENTY LET THE BATTLECOMMENCErdquo

ldquoBut the battle has already begunrdquo the Cyclops explainedldquoWhoever blinks first is the loser I thought you understoodrdquo

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 43: Alaska 2012

0Titletalk

0Blogs

0Twitter

0 Facebook

0Web sites

Resources

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 44: Alaska 2012

Titletalk

0 Last Sunday of the month

0 7-8 PM CST

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 45: Alaska 2012

How to Join

0Use hashtag titletalk

0Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck

0 Select search option using Titletalk

0 Post using titletalk

0Visit the archives (thanks Cindy)

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 46: Alaska 2012

Blogs

0Great Resources for Finding Books

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 47: Alaska 2012

Best Blogs (IMHO)

0Reading Rants

0Richies Picks

0 SLJ

0Nerdy Book Club

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 48: Alaska 2012

Reading Rants

0 httpwwwreadingrantsorg

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 49: Alaska 2012

Richies Picks

0 httpwwwrichiespickscom

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 50: Alaska 2012

Fuse 8 SLJ Blog

0 httpblogschoollibraryjournalcomafuse8production

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 51: Alaska 2012

Nerdy Book Club

0 httpnerdybookclubwordpresscom

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 52: Alaska 2012

Twitter

0Are you one of our tweeps

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 53: Alaska 2012

0 donalynbooks

0 professornana

0 catagator

0 colbysharp

0 mrschureads

0 paulwhankins

0 judyblume

0 kylenebeers

0 mindi_r

0 skajder

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 54: Alaska 2012

How to Build Your PLN

0 start following one person

0 see who they are including in tweets

0FF

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 55: Alaska 2012

Facebook

0 forums pages

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 56: Alaska 2012

The Hub

0 httpwwwyalsaalaorgthehub

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 57: Alaska 2012

Adbooks

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupadbooks

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 58: Alaska 2012

Middle School Lit

0 httpwwwgroupsyahoocomgroupmiddle_school_lit

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 59: Alaska 2012

Reading Outside the Comfort Zones

Pushing ourselves as readers

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 60: Alaska 2012

Nonfiction

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 61: Alaska 2012

More nonfiction

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 62: Alaska 2012

ldquoClassicsrdquo

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 63: Alaska 2012

Cute animals on covers

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 64: Alaska 2012

Read Alouds

0Build community0Model fluency0Reveal how writers write0Expose students to more variety in books0Enhance the curriculum0Supports developing readers0Demonstrates that reading can be fun

Donalyn Miller

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 65: Alaska 2012

Audio

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 66: Alaska 2012

Picture Books

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 67: Alaska 2012

Retellings

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 68: Alaska 2012

Retellings

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 69: Alaska 2012

EPISODIC

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 70: Alaska 2012

Empathy

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 71: Alaska 2012

Five authors every child in

grade ___ should know arehellip

idea from Donalyn Miller

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 72: Alaska 2012

Booktalks

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 73: Alaska 2012

DisplaysPackaging

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 74: Alaska 2012

Trailers

httpthedivinersseriescom

httpusmacmillancomauthorlauravaccaroseeger

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 75: Alaska 2012

Spine Poetry

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 76: Alaska 2012

0 SIX STARS

0 Code Name Verity Elizabeth Wein

0 Fault in Our Stars The John Green

0 Z Is for Moose Kelly Bingham illus by Paul O Zelinsky

0 FIVE STARS

0 Green Laura Vaccaro Seeger

Starred Reviews

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 77: Alaska 2012

0 FOUR STARS

0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole A Carolyn CinamiDeCristofano illus by Michael Carroll

0 Grave Mercy Robin LaFevers

0THREE STARS

0 Curveball The Year I Lost My Grip Jordan Sonnenblick

0 Lions of Little Rock The Kristin Levine

0 Wonder RJ Palacio

Seeing Stars

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 78: Alaska 2012

Nonfiction and Gory

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 79: Alaska 2012

Illustrated Chapter Books

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 80: Alaska 2012

More GNs

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 81: Alaska 2012

Intensity Racheted Up

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 82: Alaska 2012

Refuse Classification

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 83: Alaska 2012

Revisiting

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 84: Alaska 2012

Bilingual Texts

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 85: Alaska 2012

Series

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 86: Alaska 2012

Silly Parodies

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 87: Alaska 2012

Kleenex Books

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 88: Alaska 2012

Poetry Parody

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 89: Alaska 2012

Adult Authors Reach Down

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 90: Alaska 2012

Revisiting

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 91: Alaska 2012

Series

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 92: Alaska 2012

Redefining format

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 93: Alaska 2012

Changing Genres

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 94: Alaska 2012

More History

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 95: Alaska 2012

Middle Grades

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 96: Alaska 2012

More in the middle

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 97: Alaska 2012

Novels in Verse

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 98: Alaska 2012

Retellings

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 99: Alaska 2012

GNs

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 100: Alaska 2012

GNs

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 101: Alaska 2012

Humor

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 102: Alaska 2012

Retellings

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 103: Alaska 2012

Novels in Verse

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 104: Alaska 2012

Creating Ladders

Select a theme or genre or setting or some other aspect that you wish to highlight

Choose texts ranging in reading levelsdemands and other factors

Arrange them from ldquoeasiestrdquo to ldquomost difficultrdquo

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 105: Alaska 2012

What IS a Reading Ladder

0 Combines elements of

0 Thematic unit

0 Vertical alignment and planning

0 Horizontal alignment and planning

0Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

0Makes connections between and among books

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 106: Alaska 2012

WHY Reading Ladders

0Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

0MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC

0 NAEP indicates only 3 of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 107: Alaska 2012

Meaning

Play

Empathy

Symphony

Story

Design

135

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 108: Alaska 2012

136

Readers make meaning (Louise Rosenblatt) from the text However they need to know how to negotiate the text FOR meaning

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 109: Alaska 2012

Meaning

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 110: Alaska 2012

Meaning

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 111: Alaska 2012

139

Word play and

playing with language

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 112: Alaska 2012

Humor Reading Ladder

Developmental

physical

character

situation

language

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 113: Alaska 2012

Physical

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 114: Alaska 2012

Character

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 115: Alaska 2012

Audio

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 116: Alaska 2012

Characters Cover Predictions

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 117: Alaska 2012

Situation

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 118: Alaska 2012

CHARACTER

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 119: Alaska 2012

Character and Language

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 120: Alaska 2012

SITUATION

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 121: Alaska 2012

Nonfiction

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 122: Alaska 2012

Nonfiction

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 123: Alaska 2012

Parody

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 124: Alaska 2012

Adult Humor Parody

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 125: Alaska 2012

Word Play Chapter titles

0Beep beep beep beep yeah

0These are a few of my favorite things

0Back in black

0 Sweet dreams are made of these

0The futurersquos so bright I gotta wear shades

0 I put a spell on you because yoursquore mine

0Papa was a rolling stone

0Come on baby donrsquot fear the reaper

0 Schoolrsquos out forever

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 126: Alaska 2012

154

Stronger than sympathy Empathetic bonds can be developed through

literature

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 127: Alaska 2012

Character Connections

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 128: Alaska 2012

ldquoRealrdquo Characters

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 129: Alaska 2012

Understanding Motivation

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 130: Alaska 2012

HarperCollins

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 131: Alaska 2012

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 132: Alaska 2012

160

Many voices blending together

Three books one focus

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 134: Alaska 2012

Multiple Perspectives

163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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163

Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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Story circle

Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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Dystopian Futures

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 138: Alaska 2012

Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 139: Alaska 2012

170

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 140: Alaska 2012

Candlewick

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

Page 141: Alaska 2012

HarperCollins

Aladdin

Norton

Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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Nonfiction Reading Ladder

Historical

Horizontal

176

177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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177

182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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182

185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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185

186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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186

6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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6 word memoirs

FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES

YOURE THE PARENT ACT LIKE ONE

EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE

GOD ABANDONED ME SO I RECIPROCATED

I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER (could be Hank Greens memoir)

WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE

YOU MADE ME STRONGER THANKS RAPIST

MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE

LIFE IS FULL OF AWKWARD TURTLE MOMENTS

INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE

GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

MORE VARIANTS

WHO GETS IT0HUMOR IF YOU KNOW

WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

LANGUAGE PLAY0HOMONYMS HOMOPHONE

S HOMOGRAPHS

0ELLA MINNOW PEA

RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

AUDIO FUN

RULES RULES RULES

The possibilities are endless

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GN Reading Ladder

Growing more complex

189

Different covers US Brit

Form and Format Ladder

Genres

Categories

Wendy Lamb

195

197

198

They are alive and well

in middle and high school classrooms

Christmas Classics0 POLAR EXPRESS

0DECEMBER

0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

METAFICTION0HAROLD AND THE PURPLE

CRAYON

0MONSTER

0ORIGAMI YODA

0BOOK

PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS

0DICKENSIAN NAMES

UNEXPECTED TWISTS0 PREDICTION SKILLS

0 IRONY

ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

METAFICTION PART DEUX0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE

TRAPPED IN A BOOK

0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

VIEWING AND REPRESENTING

0OTHERS IN SERIES

0WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A CASSATT

0OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

CREATING CHARACTERS

TEXTLESS STORIES0THE ARRIVAL

0THE LION AND THE MOUSE by Pinkney

0TUESDAY

MORE TEXTLESS0WEB SITE

0 SEQUELS

SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

0 PATTERN WRITING

0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

SO MUCH TO MINE0DICTION

0 STYLE

0REGIONALISM

0HUMOR

NONFICTION0 ILLUSTRATION

EXAMINATION

0 CONVEYING INFORMATION MEANINGFULLY AND INTERESTINGLY

ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

ENDINGADVENTURE

WHAT A PAIR0UNUSUAL PAIRINGS

0HUMOR

0 ILLUSTRATION ENHANCING TEXT

FAIRY RETELLINGS0 SCIESZKArsquoS THRTEE

LITTLE PIGS FROG PRINCE CONTINUED STINKY CHEESE MAN

0YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX FLINN ROBIN MCKINLEY AND OTHERS

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SIMPLY PUT0OUTSIDE NARRATORS

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ALTERNATIVES0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN

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RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR TALES

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AUDIO FUN

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