-- Share your love of reading with your students -- Discover gems that answer What can I read that's good? and What else is like what I just read?Promote reading to the reluctant and guide reading for the voracious reader with these collections of compelling booktalks Here, busy librarians and teachers get a brief commercial for each book, with a catchy beginning and a cliffhanger ending. Arranged by level and indexed by author, title, subject/interest, and genre, what you want is easy to find and ready to use.
-- Share your love of reading with your students -- Discover gems that answer What can I read that's good? and What else is like what I just read?P...
By offering over 300 successful booktalks for librarians, teachers, and parents, Littlejohn shows how to effectively "hook" reluctant readers onto books. The booktalks are divided into three reading levels: elementary, middle school, and high school/adult, and range from recently published books to Newbery award winners to books that have endured the test of time. Helpful hints abound, from adding spice to your booktalks to ways of measuring a booktalk's success through library circulation and student surveys. The title, author, subject, and genre indexes will be most helpful for planning...
By offering over 300 successful booktalks for librarians, teachers, and parents, Littlejohn shows how to effectively "hook" reluctant readers onto ...
Get 263 new booktalks to introduce good books to ages 8 to 88 - 70 elementary level, 190 middle school, 181 high school and up (several overlap levels). Serve a wide range of interests with fiction, non-fiction, poetry, best-sellers, award-winners, and classics that don't date. Discover gems that answer "What can I read that's good?" and "What else is like what I just read?" A booktalk is a written recommendation of a book, a quick photo flash of a book's appeal--a way of "hooking" a student into developing a reading habit. Written at the reading level of the book's audience, booktalks can...
Get 263 new booktalks to introduce good books to ages 8 to 88 - 70 elementary level, 190 middle school, 181 high school and up (several overlap lev...
Volume 4 of this much-loved, practical series provides not only a hefty list of tempting titles for students, but selling points to help educators and librarians promote the books about students. The book contains multiple indexes to make it easy to find appropriate titles, suggestions to encourage reluctant readers, information about award-winners, details about authors and related titles, and alerts to controversial materials such as profanity or sexual situations.
The latest in our popular booktalking series helps engage even the most reluctant readers
136 new booktalks offer an...
Volume 4 of this much-loved, practical series provides not only a hefty list of tempting titles for students, but selling points to help educators ...
"Book Clubbing : Successful Book Clubs for Young People" offers practical tips on creating book clubs that involve students of all ages and reading levels--including special education students, second language learners, and reluctant readers--making it easy to have fun, productive, and educational book clubs and other reading events.
The book begins with a discussion of the current research on reading and practical tips from experienced sponsors and participants, followed by suggestions on customizing book clubs to fit the students' needs and how to add "sparkle" to the club with field...
"Book Clubbing : Successful Book Clubs for Young People" offers practical tips on creating book clubs that involve students of all ages and reading...
