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Just what you asked for - more booktalks for teens! Volume II has more engaging, motivating, and meaningful titles and activities to share with your students Impact literacy in your school by inspiring even the most reluctant students to pick up books and read ·These booktalks pique high school students' interest in books! They encourage students to get lost in a mystery, find themselves in a character, or discover new worlds ·This popular book includes curriculum-related activities for educators to pick up and use right away to meet national standards and raise students' test scores ·Find age-appropriate titles on the American Library Association (ALA) and International Reading Association (IRA) recommended reading lists for your students This book is a professional booktalking and collection development tool for the busy high school library media specialist. It saves librarians' time when preparing booktalks to support the curriculum, as well as encouraging struggling students to curl up with a good book. Inspire reluctant readers in the difficult teen years with these targeted books and booktalks. Get your students reading and watch test scores rise..
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This professional booktalking tool for the busy middle and junior high school library media specialist includes booktalks that can be used to support the curriculum, encorage student leisure reading, and provide ideas for educator-media specialist collaboration..
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A companion title to the popular Gotcha! by the same authors, this new guide lets you pinpoint the right books to get children excited about reading nonfiction titles! With more than 350 nonfiction books, most of which have been published in the past four years, this guide makes it easy to find good reading material to use in your classroom, at the library, or at home. In addition to suggestions for presenting books to students in irresistible ways, hundreds of ready-to-use booktalks and a wealth of tips on booktalking make this title an invaluable and versatile resource. Even an outline for a booktalk program and a bibliography for collection development purposes are included. Educators can search thematically to find books that correlate precisely with their curriculum requirements, and parents have an convenient tool to select just the right books for their children. While perfect for booktalk programs, librarians and school media specialists will also find this to be a valuable collection..
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A wealth of information about Newbery award winners and honor books is at your fingertips with this new release You'll find detailed plot summaries, booktalks, updated information about the winning titles and authors, suggestions for read-alikes, and ideas for how to introduce the books to young readers. Entries are arranged chronologically from 1922 through 2001. A history of the award and a discussion of the award process are also included..
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Parents, teachers and librarians: transfer your love of reading to your students through booktalks Booktalks are brief "commercials" about a book, enticing others to read that book. The over 300 booktalks are divided into three reading levels: elementary, middle school and high school/adult, and range from best-sellers to Newbery award winners to classics. Each booktalk is separately designed for easy copying. The title, author, subject and genre indexes will help you quickly find the booktalks you need..
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Here's everything you need to create compelling booktalks for school assignments and pleasure reading books for teens in junior and senior high. Books are organized by genre and theme into 9 sections: teenage life and concerns, social and family problems, mystery and adventure, science fiction and fantasy, historical fiction and other lands, sports in fact and fiction, biography and general nonfiction, guidance and health, and challenging adult titles. Grades 7-12..
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Everything you need to create compelling booktalks featuring outstanding young adult novels. The authors have chosen 100 classic YA titles published over the past 30 years based on literary merit, continued popularity, and availability (all titles are in print); and have categorized them into broad genres (Teen Life, Adventure, Sports, etc.). For each title, they provide an introduction that gives background information on the book and the author; a list of principal characters; a detailed plot summary; critical comment and notes on suitability; material on key themes and subjects, passages for booktalking; and references to sources of more information on the book and the author. Entries also feature selected titles that link these classics to contemporary titles. Building on previous volumes in the Juniorplots and Seniorplots series, this is an information-packed and lasting guide; it is a must-have for librarians who serve teens. Grades 6-12..
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Promote today's best and most popular YA books with help from this practical guide. Focusing on titles published after 2000, Schall provides you with background information, ready-to-use (or adapt) booktalks, read-aloud selections, learning activities, and related reads for approximately 100 fiction and nonfiction books with broad teen appeal. Organized by genres and themes, it has something for every teen reader. Whether you are a public or school librarian, teacher, or teen group leader, you'll find this collection helpful in motivating teens to read, building their appreciation of books, and in extending learning opportunities beyond the reading experience. Grades 6-12..
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This digital document is an article from Instructor (1990), published by Scholastic, Inc. on January 1, 2002. The length of the article is 2563 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Great stories in history. (BookTalk).(children's books; includes related activities)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Author: Judy Freeman
Publication:Instructor (1990) (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2002
Publisher: Scholastic, Inc.
Volume: 111 Issue: 5 Page: 18(6)

Article Type: Book Review, Children's Review, Brief Article

Distributed by Thomson Gale.
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Encourge and middle school readers to read quality titles pertaining to subjects from across the curriculum. Featuring recently published (1998-2001) fiction and nonfiction titles, these books are either award winners, written by award-winning authors, positively reviewed in national reading advocacy journals, or representative of an emerging trend in children's literature. Each booktalk entry consists of bibliographic data, a plot summary, a short booktalk, curriculum connections, and identification of related books. TOPICS INSIDE: Relationships, coming of age, sports, art, music, dance, holidays, adventure, science, math, social studies, and others..
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