Reading Ladder assignment guidelines are below for all grade 8 and 9 students in my classes. Students are familiar with this assignment as they completed one at the end of first term. Please note this assignment is due Friday, February 27th.
This is not mandatory work, as I do not have everyone's email address.
However, students will be expected to complete as homework next week. Please email me at sxballum@edu.pe.ca if you have any questions.
Reading Ladder – Analyzing your reading process
A Reading Ladder is simply a piece of explanatory
writing where students rank the books they’ve read according to complexity,
reflect on their reading habits, and make plans for future growth.
Purpose: to step back and look
at what you have accomplished as a reader in order to measure progress and set
new goals for term two and the rest of the school year.
Process
1.
Compile a list
of all of the books you completed and abandoned so far this school year. List the books in order of most
difficult to least difficult.
2. Write
a “Why this Order?” paragraph. Explain
your reasons for ranking books. Discuss what make a book ‘difficult.’
3. Reading Rate – calculate the number of pages you've read this term. Then
calculate the average number of pages you read per week. This will
determine your reading rate for this term. Compare this new rate with your
term 1 reading rate and reading rate at the beginning of the school year . Discuss your at home reading habits.
4. Summary – summarize one book. Provide a true summary of the book,
not just a comparison between books.
5. Personal Goals – set goals for term two and the rest of the school year.
These should be specific: I will read 15 books by June. I will read one
nonfiction book. I will develop an at home reading habit. I will…
