kindling a love of reading icte

KINDLING A LOVE OF READING USING READING LADDERS

Teri S. Lesesne (rhymes with insane)

Sam Houston State University

@professornana

Saturday, September 14, 13

TO THE WOMAN (WE THINK YOU’RE A TEACHER) WITH THE BOOKS ON THE 2 TRAIN

By some anonymous students

Saturday, September 14, 13

On the platform for the 2 train

you stand with a book in your hand

the pages open

Which is how you enter the train

Reading

Sometimes you smile, or frown

Once you even cried

on the train

when you were reading Night

Saturday, September 14, 13

And then you were reading all those

basketball books

by Walter Dean Myers

so we read those too

speeding along on the 2 train

one time you saw us reading Slam

and you said

I love that book

and do you think Slam is going to make it in high

school?

We do, we think he’s going to make it

Saturday, September 14, 13

Then you were reading some really hard stuff

Epistemology of the Closet, Postmodern Narrative

Theory

and we tried those, but we think you have to have read

the books those authors have read, if you want to read

their books

Our favorite is when you are reading poetry

Picnic, Lightning

and you lean back against the seat

and smile

Saturday, September 14, 13

Last week you were reading The Life of Pi

and we rushed out to buy it

So we could be in the lifeboat

adrift in the blue, blue sea

with the boy, the Bengal Tiger, and you

If we don’t see you next year

on the train

Maybe sometime we’ll bump into each other on the

platform

You’ll know us because

we’ll have books in our hands

Saturday, September 14, 13

THE KINDLING

O Books

O Community

O Models

O Time

O Talk

Saturday, September 14, 13

IMPETUS FOR LADDERS

O Renovation in the house

O Kid who read voraciously

O AR

O AP

Saturday, September 14, 13

LADDERS BEGIN WITH WHERE KIDS ARE

Help us guide them to where we would like them to be

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAY

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAYING WITH CONCEPTS

Saturday, September 14, 13

GREEK CHORUS, ANYONE?

Saturday, September 14, 13

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAYING WITH VARIATIONS

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAYING WITH WORDS

Saturday, September 14, 13

Saturday, September 14, 13

VARIANTS

Saturday, September 14, 13

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAYING WITH CONVENTIONS

Saturday, September 14, 13

DYSTOPIA

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAYING WITH CULTURAL REFERENCES

Saturday, September 14, 13

PLAYING WITH CULTURAL REFERENCES

Saturday, September 14, 13

DESIGN

Saturday, September 14, 13

DIE CUTS

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SNEAK PEEK

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JOURNAL AND ORIGAMI

Saturday, September 14, 13

GN FORMAT

Saturday, September 14, 13

BIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHER

Saturday, September 14, 13

BIG BANG

Saturday, September 14, 13

CENSORSHIP

Saturday, September 14, 13

HISTORY

Saturday, September 14, 13

TEXTLESS

Saturday, September 14, 13

STORY

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MAKING FAMILIAR STRANGE

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Saturday, September 14, 13

INTERRUPTING NARRATOR

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Saturday, September 14, 13

MULTIPLE NARRATORS

Saturday, September 14, 13

DUAL UNRELIABLENARRATORS

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VARIANTS

Saturday, September 14, 13

PARODY

Saturday, September 14, 13

MASH-UPS

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MASH-UPS

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NARRATIVE NONFICTION

Saturday, September 14, 13

NARRATIVE NONFICTION

Saturday, September 14, 13

NARRATIVE NONFICTION

Saturday, September 14, 13

Saturday, September 14, 13