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


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


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


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


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


THE KINDLING

O Books

O Community

O Models

O Time

O Talk


IMPETUS FOR LADDERS

O Renovation in the house

O Kid who read voraciously

O AR

O AP


LADDERS BEGIN WITH WHERE KIDS ARE

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


PLAY


PLAYING WITH CONCEPTS


GREEK CHORUS, ANYONE?



PLAYING WITH VARIATIONS


PLAYING WITH WORDS



VARIANTS



PLAYING WITH CONVENTIONS


DYSTOPIA


PLAYING WITH CULTURAL REFERENCES


PLAYING WITH CULTURAL REFERENCES


DESIGN


DIE CUTS


SNEAK PEEK


JOURNAL AND ORIGAMI


GN FORMAT


BIOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHER


BIG BANG


CENSORSHIP


HISTORY


TEXTLESS


STORY


MAKING FAMILIAR STRANGE



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MULTIPLE NARRATORS


DUAL UNRELIABLENARRATORS


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PARODY


MASH-UPS


MASH-UPS


NARRATIVE NONFICTION







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Kindling a love of reading icte