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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...

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...

""Please, please may I work on this at recess? Do we have to stop now?

When learning is this interesting success is the natural result. Recess Reading activities build from each student s personal experience with language. They peak interest and promote memory using readily available materials. These methods can be used in many situations with all types of students.

Language Arts Enrichment

Core Reading and Writing Curriculum

Home-school Studies

ESL Programs

Beginning Readers

Reluctant Readers

Varied Learning...

This is a unique book for parents, educators, and policymakers. It is alone in setting forth a clear presentation of the learning stages through which children must pass in order to become fluent, independently literate readers and writers. It explains the developmental dangers unique to each child that parents and teachers may have to confront, as well as the educational confusions and pathways to success that may determine the educational fate of each child. It illustrates the learning process clearly and nontechnically, and does not hesitate to point to the educational errors as well as...

This volume presents the results of a two-year research project which examined the development and use of reading and writing by school-aged children. The studies examined the relationships between children's reading and writing by looking at the social contexts that surrounded their understandings and uses of reading and writing; the cognitive processes that the readers and writers invoked in completing different kinds of tasks; and the products that were produced, including the ideas that were developed in reading and writing, and the ways in which these ideas were structured in...