Here is the power point from our workshop on August 7th.

2. How to Contact Me
Email:
doctorL@shsu.edu
Twitter:
@professornana
Facebook
Teri Lesesne

3. Back Channel
Post questions, comments, etc. here during the day:
www.todaysmeet.com/Alaska
The room will be archived for one year, so you can go
back and see links, quotes, etc.

4. Materials
www.slideshare.net/ProfessorNana

5. Making the Match
Knowing Kids
Knowing the Books
Knowing strategies to bring them together

7. Pavlov

8. Complexity of Kids

9. Ed Psych 101 Revisited
Piaget
Maslow
Kohlberg
Havighurst

10. Piagetian
Concrete
 Now begins as kids transition from middle school to
high school
 Does not mean transition is complete, just underway
 Questions need scaffolding
Abstract
 Theme
 Drawing conclusions
 Inferencing

11. Piaget and Books
Concrete Abstract

12. Piaget and Books
Concrete Abstract

13. Piaget and Books
Concrete Abstract

14. Piaget and Books
Concrete Abstract

15. Piaget and Books
Concrete Abstract

16. Piaget
Just because it looks Does not mean it is
like this concrete
0 “He pinched my belly
bu10!”
0 “I think you’ll sur5.
(They just do this 4
a10tion.)”
0 “They are in a 4eign
country.
0 Their 2r guide is
transl8ting.”

17. Maslow and Needs
Start at bottom of the hierarchy
Find books where characters are dealing with same
needs
Important topics:
Belonging
Esteem
Safety

18. Esteem

19. Esteem

20. Belonging

21. Belonging

22. Safety

23. Safety

24. Kohlberg and Morals
0 Preconventional
0 Reward
0 Punishment
0 Conventional
0 Follow the conventions (laws)
0 Secular
0 Religious
0 Post conventional
0 No law supersedes value of human life

25. Preconventional

26. Preconventional

27. Conventional

28. Conventional

29. Post Conventional

30. Postconventional

31. Havighurst
0 Working for pay
0 Easy relationship with opposite sex
0 Changing relationships with peers
0 Finding a vocation
0 Determining appropriate sex role
0 Refining morals and values

32. Working for pay

33. Easy relationship with opposite
sex

34. Changing relationships with
peers

35. Finding a vocation

36. Determining appropriate sex role

37. Refining morals and values

39. Oldies but Goodies
Gathering readers
instead of gathering dust

40. Remember these?

41. How about these?

42. Or perhaps these?

43. Maybe these?

45. Narrowing Choices
Where are the good books
hiding?

50. http://imaginationsoup.net/201
2/07/the-best-picture-books-of-
summer-2012/
GIANT, I AM HERE TO DO BATTLE
WITH YOU! PREPARE
YOURSELF, AND LET US BEGIN!”
The Cyclops stared at Henry, and
Henry stared back.
The stared and stared until Henry
could stare no longer.
“ENOUGH, LONE-EYE!” Henry
shouted. “YOU HAVE HAD TIME
APLENTY! LET THE BATTLE
COMMENCE!”
“But the battle has already begun,”
the Cyclops explained.
“Whoever blinks first is the loser. I
thought you understood.”

54. Resources
0 Titletalk
0 Blogs
0 Twitter
0 Facebook
0 Web sites

55. Titletalk
0 Last Sunday of the month
0 7-8 PM CST

56. How to Join
0 Use hashtag: #titletalk
0 Use an app like HootSuite or Tweetdeck
0 Select "search" option using Titletalk
0 Post using #titletalk
0 Visit the archives (thanks Cindy!)

57. Blogs
0 Great Resources for Finding Books

58. Best Blogs (IMHO)
0 Reading Rants
0 Richie's Picks
0 SLJ
0 Nerdy Book Club

59. Reading Rants
0 http://www.readingrants.org/

60. Richie's Picks
0 http://www.richiespicks.com

61. Fuse 8: SLJ Blog
0 http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/afuse8producti
on/

62. Nerdy Book Club
0 http://nerdybookclub.wordpress.com/

63. Twitter
0 Are you one of our tweeps?

64. 0 @donalynbooks
0 @professornana
0 @catagator
0 @colbysharp
0 @mrschureads
0 @paulwhankins
0 @judyblume
0 @kylenebeers
0 @mindi_r
0 @skajder

65. How to Build Your PLN
0 start following one person
0 see who they are including in tweets
0 #FF

66. Facebook
0 forums, pages

67. The Hub
0 http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub

68. Adbooks
0 http://www.groups.yahoo.com.group/adbooks/

69. Middle School Lit
0 http://www.groups.yahoo.com/group/middle_school
_lit

70. Reading Outside the Comfort
Zones
Pushing ourselves as readers

71. Nonfiction

72. More nonfiction

73. “Classics”

74. Cute animals on covers

77. Read Alouds
0 Build community
0 Model fluency
0 Reveal how writers write
0 Expose students to more variety in books
0 Enhance the curriculum
0 Supports developing readers
0 Demonstrates that reading can be fun
Donalyn Miller

78. Audio

79. Picture Books

80. Retellings

81. Retellings

82. EPISODIC

83. Empathy

84. Five authors every child in
grade ___ should know are…
idea from Donalyn Miller

85. Booktalks

86. Displays/Packaging

87. Trailers
http://thedivinersseries.com/
http://us.macmillan.com/author/lauravaccaroseeger

88. Spine Poetry

90. Starred Reviews
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.

91. Seeing Stars
0 FOUR STARS
0 Black Hole Is NOT a Hole, A. Carolyn Cinami
DeCristofano, illus. by Michael Carroll
0 Grave Mercy. Robin LaFevers
0 THREE STARS
0 Curveball: The Year I Lost My Grip. Jordan Sonnenblick
0 Lions of Little Rock, The. Kristin Levine
0 Wonder. R.J. Palacio

94. Nonfiction and Gory

95. Illustrated Chapter Books

96. More GNs

97. Intensity Racheted Up

98. Refuse Classification

99. Revisiting

100. Bilingual Texts

101. Series

102. Silly Parodies

103. Kleenex Books

104. Poetry Parody

105. Adult Authors Reach Down

106. Revisiting

107. Series

108. Redefining format

109. Changing Genres

110. More History

111. Middle Grades

112. More in the middle

113. Novels in Verse

114. Retellings

115. GNs

116. GNs

117. Humor

118. Retellings

119. Novels in Verse

132. Creating Ladders
Select a theme or genre or setting or some other
aspect that you wish to highlight
Choose texts ranging in reading levels/demands and
other factors
Arrange them from “easiest” to “most difficult”

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

134. WHY Reading Ladders?
0 Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make
connections from text to text
0 MOST 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)

135. 135
 Meaning
 Play
 Empathy
 Symphony
 Story
 Design

136. 136
Readers make meaning
(Louise Rosenblatt) from the
text. However, they need to
know how to negotiate the
text FOR meaning.

137. Meaning

138. Meaning

139. 139
Word play
and
playing with
language

140. Humor Reading Ladder
Developmental
physical
character
situation
language

141. Physical

142. Character

143. Audio

144. Characters: Cover Predictions

145. Situation

146. CHARACTER

147. Character and Language

148. SITUATION

149. Nonfiction

150. Nonfiction

151. Parody

152. Adult Humor: Parody

153. Word Play: Chapter titles
0 Beep beep beep beep yeah
0 These are a few of my favorite things
0 Back in black
0 Sweet dreams are made of these
0 The future’s so bright, I gotta wear
shades
0 I put a spell on you because you’re mine
0 Papa was a rolling stone
0 Come on baby don’t fear the reaper
0 School’s out forever

154. 154
Stronger than sympathy. Empathetic
bonds can be developed through
literature.

155. Character Connections

156. “Real” Characters

157. Understanding Motivation

158. HarperCollins

159. 6 word memoirs
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.

160. 160
Many voices blending together

161. Three books: one focus

162. Multiple Perspectives

163. 163

164. Story circle

165. Dystopian Futures

166. Outstanding Dystopic Novels

170. 170

171. Candlewick

172. HarperCollins

173. Aladdin

174. Norton

175. Nonfiction Reading
Ladder
Historical
Horizontal

176. 176

177. 177

182. 182

185. 185

186. 186

187. 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

188. GN Reading Ladder
Growing more
complex

189. 189

190. Different covers US, Brit

194. Form and Format Ladder
Genres
Categories

195. Wendy Lamb
195

197. 197

198. 198

209. They are alive and well
in middle and high school classrooms

210. Christmas Classics
0 POLAR EXPRESS
0 DECEMBER
0 CHRISTMAS CAROL

211. METAFICTION
0 HAROLD AND THE PURPLE
CRAYON
0 MONSTER
0 ORIGAMI YODA
0 BOOK

212. PLAYING WITH LANGUAGE
0 JOKE AND RIDDLE BOOKS
0 DICKENSIAN NAMES

213. UNEXPECTED TWISTS
0 PREDICTION SKILLS
0 IRONY

214. ZEN AND STORYTELLING FORMS

215. METAFICTION, PART DEUX
0 STORY OF LITTLE MOUSE
TRAPPED IN A BOOK
0 SEARCH FOR WONDLA

216. VIEWING AND
REPRESENTING
0 OTHERS IN SERIES
0 WHAT MAKES A CASSATT A
CASSATT?
0 OTHERS IN THAT SERIES

217. CREATING CHARACTERS

218. TEXTLESS STORIES
0 THE ARRIVAL
0 THE LION AND THE MOUSE
by Pinkney
0 TUESDAY

219. MORE TEXTLESS
0 WEB SITE
0 SEQUELS

221. SIMPLY PUT
0 OUTSIDE NARRATORS
0 PATTERN WRITING
0 IMAGINATIVE PLAY

222. SO MUCH TO MINE
0 DICTION
0 STYLE
0 REGIONALISM
0 HUMOR

223. NONFICTION
0 ILLUSTRATION
EXAMINATION
0 CONVEYING INFORMATION
MEANINGFULLY AND
INTERESTINGLY

224. ALTERNATIVES
0 CHOOSE YOUR OWN
ENDING/ADVENTURE

225. WHAT A PAIR!
0 UNUSUAL PAIRINGS
0 HUMOR
0 ILLUSTRATION
ENHANCING TEXT

226. FAIRY RETELLINGS
0 SCIESZKA’S THRTEE
LITTLE PIGS, FROG PRINCE
CONTINUED, STINKY
CHEESE MAN
0 YA RETELLINGS BY ALEX
FLINN, ROBIN MCKINLEY
AND OTHERS

227. MORE VARIANTS

230. WHO GETS IT?
0 HUMOR IF YOU KNOW
WHAT IS BEING PARODIED

231. LANGUAGE PLAY
0 HOMONYMS, HOMOPHONE
S, HOMOGRAPHS
0 ELLA MINNOW PEA

232. RE-ENVISIONING FAMILIAR
TALES

234. AUDIO FUN

235. RULES, RULES, RULES

258. The possibilities are endless!