New Books New literacies

New BooksNew literaciesWith Teri S. Lesesne, SHSU, DOLS1Where is the material?www.slideshare.net/ProfessorNana

And at my blog at LiveJournalProfessorNana2How to Find THE BooksAward winners

Starred reviews

Teens Top Ten

State Lists (Lone Star and TAYSHAS)

blogs3Award Winners 20114Printz

5Printz Honor

6Printz Honor

7Morris Award-Debut Novel

8Morris Shortlist Finalists

9Morris Shortlist Finalists

10Great Graphic Novels Top 10

11Newbery Award

12Newbery Honor

13Odyssey Audio

14Odyssey Audio

15Pura Belpre

16ALEX Awards

17Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist

18Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist

19Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist

20Excellence in Nonfiction Finalist

21Excellence in Nonfiction Winner

22Sibert Honor

23Sibert Winner

24Browsing Books

25Browsing Books

26Browsing Books

27Browsing Books

28Browse and learn29

Green Books

30Going Green

31Environmental Issues

32Biographies

33Biographies

34Biographies

35Picture Book Gems for Teens

36Picture Book Gems for Teens

37Variety of Nonfiction

38Variety of Nonfiction

39Variety of Nonfiction

40Starred Review Lists41Seeing Stars

42Stars Galore!

43Pretty Stars!

44Twinkle, Twinkle!

45Shiny Books!

46Sparkle!

47Teens Top Ten 201048TTT

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50http://professornana.livejournal.comBLOGS51Some of the 577 from 2010

52Audio

53Blog Books

54Classic adaptations

55Classics in GN format

56Re-envisioning

57Familiar?58

Newly told tales

59New take

60Fresh approaches

61Steampunk

62Metafiction

63Metafiction

64Metafiction

65Metafiction

66Connections and Ladders

67Tying it Together

68Forging Connections

69Creating Connections

70Intense Connections

71Intense Connections

72Funny Connections

73Sad Connections

74Out of this world connections

75Reading laddersGrowing Readers76What IS a Reading Ladder?Combines elements ofThematic unitVertical alignment and planningHorizontal alignment and planning

Moves students to more independence in selecting reading materials

Makes connections between and among books77WHY Reading Ladders?Research shows that PROFICIENT readers make connections from text to text

MOST of our students never progress beyond BASICNAEP indicates only 3% of students score here at PROFICIENT level (since 1992 there has been NO growth at this level)

78Newbery Medal 2010

79POSSIBLE READING LADDERSSCIENCE FICTION (TIME TRAVEL)Wrinkle in TimeTime Travelers WifeTime Warp TrioHISTORICAL FICTION (1970s)Tales of the Madman UndergroundStuck in the 70sTime Capsule (Gallo collection)MYSTERYFrom the Mixed up FilesWhispers from the DeadA is for Alibi

80Content Area Tie-insHistory- 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 attributes81Caldecott

82Possible Reading LaddersFablesLobels versionAesops variationsDirty Rotten Stinkin Grapes

TextlessTuesday, Sector 13Storm in the BarnThe Arrival

Traditional LiteratureParablesFairy talesMyths, legends, etc.

83Sibert (nonfiction)

84Possible LaddersFeminism

Astronauts and Space Program

Collective Biographies85Nonfiction Reading LadderHistoricalHorizontal

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6 word memoirsFIVE 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.

98GN Reading LadderGrowing more complex

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104Humor Reading LadderDevelopmentalphysicalcharactersituationlanguage

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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 cant 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 unhingedAnd so the Amazing Armadillo.

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112Lets Build a Ladder

113What rungs work here?

114Steps to and from this one?

115War and Peace Ladder

116Finally

117Every 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:

1181. 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.

1193. 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.

1205. 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.

1218. 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.

12211. 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.

12314. 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.

12417. 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.

12521. 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