Contains more than 160 booktalks and 330 book suggestions designed to help middle-school teachers promote fiction-reading in their classrooms.
Burgess, Melvin. Doing It. Henry Holt, 2004, c2003. • De la Cruz, Melissa. The Au Pairs: A Novel. Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, c2004. • Dean, Zoey. The A-list. Little, Brown, c2003. • Dent, Grace. LBD: It's a Girl Thing.
Presents a collection of book talks, covering award-winning and positively reviewed fiction and non-fiction titles, that are designed to encourage elementary and middle school students to read.
Want to add some pizzazz to your booktalks and motivate young readers? Here are simple but powerful ideas and instructions for integrating technology into your presentations, and using booktalks to...
Floyd. Cooper. (art). Becoming. Billie. Holiday. Honesdale, PA: Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong, 2008. 117p. $19.95. ISBN-13: 978 1 59078 507 2. [fictional verse memoir] JS, CG Themes/Topics: jazz, Harlem, 1920s and 1930s, ...
Judy Freeman has developed a comprehensive handbook with thoroughly annotated lists of the 2008's best children's books, lesson plans, teacher's guides, stories, songs, and Internet resources. Grades K-6.The WINNERS! Handbook...
Recent research on the learning process indicates that learning is facilitated by identifying and solving problems, when finding multiple approaches to problem-solving and when a problem has a 'real-world' significance....
Most of the books included are fabulous read-alouds, read-alones, and natural choices for Guided Reading, Literature Circles, or Book Clubs.
Myers, W. D., and Sims, G. A. (2015). Monster: A graphic novel. New York, NY: Amistad. Naidoo, B. (2002). Out of bounds: Seven stories of conflict and hope. Chicago, IL: Klett. Park, Linda Sue. (2010). A Long walk to water.
... 228–29 Gender Unicorn, 50–53, 225 hospitality, 14, 16, 54–55, 213, 225 homosexuality, 22, 48, 84, 225 Internet, 5, 74, 219–20 222, 225–26 intersex, 22, 48, 52, Johnson, Jay Emerson, 22 Kohlberg, Lawrence, Kitch, Anne, 20, 37 114–16, ...
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