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READING LADDERS Taking readers from Point  A To Point B and Beyond
crazy state laws I love to laugh…
Alaska Whispering in someone’s ear while he’s moose hunting is prohibited.
Florida If you tie an elephant to a parking meter, you must pay the same parking fee as you would for a vehicle.
Indiana The value of pi is 4, and not 3.1415.
New Jersey It’s against the law for a man to knit during the fishing season.
Oklahoma It’s forbidden to take a bite out of another person’s hamburger.
Texas You may not shoot a buffalo from the second story of a hotel.
What does all this have to do with reading?
and move forward into the century with Reading Ladders It’s time to change rules
http://professornana.livejournal.com Where to get materials?
Combines elements of Thematic unit Vertical alignment and planning Horizontal alignment and planning Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials Makes connections between and among books What IS a Reading Ladder?
WHY Reading Ladders? Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text MOST of our students never progress beyond BASIC NAEP indicates only 3% of students score at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)
Where to begin? 2011 Award winners New books The canon?
2011 Winners for Nonfiction
Nonfiction Reading Ladder Biographical or  Historical
Biographical
Historical
2011 Printz Winners Dystopia 1984 Brave New World Mad Max Hunger Games Chaos Walking
2011 Printz Winners Different Directions Setting in frozen wasteland Teen having to defend self and family Guns
2011 Printz Winners Lord of the Flies
How can we build ladders? Themes Genre Forms and formats
Humor Reading Ladder Development of Humor 	physical character 	situation 	language
Physical Humor
Situational Humor
Character-based humor
Language and Humor
More of the funny
Changing Landscape of Literacy and Literature New Books
Metafiction Ladder
metafiction
metafiction
metafiction
metafiction
The Canon
Canon to Contemporary
Canon to Contemporary
Canon to Contemporary
Canon to Contemporary
Canon to Contemporary
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