power point for NEISD presentation February 19, 2011

1. New BooksNew literacies With Teri S. Lesesne, SHSU, DOLS 1

2. Where is the material? www.slideshare.net/ProfessorNana And at my blog at LiveJournal ProfessorNana 2

3. How to Find THE Books Award winners Starred reviews Teens Top Ten State Lists (Lone Star and TAYSHAS) blogs 3

4. Award Winners 2011 4

5. Printz 5

6. Printz Honor 6

7. Printz Honor 7

8. Morris Award-Debut Novel 8

9. Morris Shortlist Finalists 9

10. Morris Shortlist Finalists 10

11. Great Graphic Novels Top 10 11

12. Newbery Award 12

13. Newbery Honor 13

14. Odyssey Audio 14

15. Odyssey Audio 15

16. Pura Belpre 16

17. ALEX Awards 17

18. Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist 18

19. Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist 19

20. Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist 20

21. Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist 21

22. Excellence in Nonfiction Winner 22

23. Sibert Honor 23

24. Sibert Winner 24

25. Browsing Books 25

26. Browsing Books 26

27. Browsing Books 27

28. Browsing Books 28

29. Browse and learn 29

30. Green Books 30

31. Going Green 31

32. Environmental Issues 32

33. Biographies 33

34. Biographies 34

35. Biographies 35

36. Picture Book Gems for Teens 36

37. Picture Book Gems for Teens 37

38. Variety of Nonfiction 38

39. Variety of Nonfiction 39

40. Variety of Nonfiction 40

41. Starred Review Lists 41

42. Seeing Stars 42

43. Stars Galore! 43

44. Pretty Stars! 44

45. Twinkle, Twinkle! 45

46. Shiny Books! 46

47. Sparkle! 47

48. Teens Top Ten 2010 48

49. TTT 49

50. TTT 50

51. http://professornana.livejournal.com BLOGS 51

52. Some of the 577 from 2010 52

53. Audio 53

54. Blog Books 54

55. Classic adaptations 55

56. Classics in GN format 56

57. Re-envisioning 57

58. Familiar? 58

59. Newly told tales 59

60. New take 60

61. Fresh approaches 61

62. Steampunk 62

63. Metafiction 63

64. Metafiction 64

65. Metafiction 65

66. Metafiction 66

67. Connections and Ladders 67

68. Tying it Together 68

69. Forging Connections 69

70. Creating Connections 70

71. Intense Connections 71

72. Intense Connections 72

73. Funny Connections 73

74. Sad Connections 74

75. Out of this world connections 75

76. Reading ladders Growing Readers 76

77. What IS a Reading Ladder? Combines elements of Thematic unit Vertical alignment and planning Horizontal alignment and planning Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials Makes connections between and among books 77

78. WHY Reading Ladders? Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC NAEP indicates only 3% of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level) 78

79. Newbery Medal 2010 79

80. POSSIBLE READING LADDERS SCIENCE FICTION (TIME TRAVEL) Wrinkle in Time Time Traveler’s Wife Time Warp Trio HISTORICAL FICTION (1970s) Tales of the Madman Underground Stuck in the 70s Time Capsule (Gallo collection) MYSTERY From the Mixed up Files… Whispers from the Dead A is for Alibi 80

81. Content Area Tie-ins History- the 1970s Science of science fiction-relativity, etc. Music and Art of When You Reach Me Kinesiology-dances of the 70s Home Ec-dress codes, haute cuisine, etc from era ELA-what makes a good mystery? Critical attributes 81

82. Caldecott 82

83. Possible Reading Ladders Fables Lobel’s version Aesop’s variations Dirty Rotten Stinkin Grapes Textless Tuesday, Sector 13 Storm in the Barn The Arrival Traditional Literature Parables Fairy tales Myths, legends, etc. 83

84. Sibert (nonfiction) 84

85. Possible Ladders Feminism Astronauts and Space Program Collective Biographies 85

86. Nonfiction Reading Ladder Historical Horizontal 86

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98. FIVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS AND TWO OBITUARIES.YOU'RE THE PARENT. ACT LIKE ONE.EXAGGERATION IS THE SPICE OF LIFE.GOD ABANDONED ME, SO I RECIPROCATED.I NEVER GOT MY HOGWARTS LETTER. (could be Hank Green's memoir?)WOULD BE SLUT GIVEN THE CHANCE.YOU MADE ME STRONGER. THANKS, RAPIST.MEASURED OUT MY LIFE IN LITERATURE.LIFE IS FULL OF "AWKWARD TURTLE" MOMENTS.INSERT MELODRAMATIC CLICHE-TEEN ICK HERE. 6 word memoirs 98

99. GN Reading Ladder Growing more complex 99

100. 100

101. Different covers US, Brit 101

102. 102

103. 103

104. 104

105. Humor Reading Ladder Developmental physical character situation language 105

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108. 108 There are many ways to describe Ms. Underdorf. She was brilliant and joyous, and she believed-probably correctly-that libraries contain the answers to everything, and that if you can’t find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably does not exist in this or any other parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged… And so the Amazing Armadillo. 108

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113. Let’s Build a Ladder 113

114. What rungs work here? 114

115. Steps to and from this one? 115

116. War and Peace Ladder 116

117. Finally 117

118. Every year, English teachers from across the country can submit their collections of actual similes and metaphors found in high school essays. These excerpts are published each year to the amusement of teachers across the country: 118

119. 1. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master. 2. His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. 119

120. 3. He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. 4. She grew on him like she was a colony of E.Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef. 120

121. 5. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up. 6. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. 7. He was as tall as a six-foot, three-inch tree. 121

122. 8. The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM machine. 9. The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. 10. McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup. 122

123. 11. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30 p.m.. 12. Her hair glistened in the rain like a nose hair after a sneeze. 13. The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. 123

124. 14. Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of a speed of 35 mph.15. They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. 16. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. 124

125. 17. He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant, and she was the East River. 18. Even in his last years, Granddad had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long, it had rusted shut. 19. Shots rang out, as shots are known to do. 20. The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work. 125

126. 21. The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while. 22. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame, maybe from stepping on a land mine or something. 23. The ballerina rose gracefully en Pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant. 24. It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools. 25. He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up. 126