Carol Littlejohn

Book Clubbing! (eBook, PDF)

Successful Book Clubs for Young People

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Learn how to sponsor a successful, student-led book club for grades K through 12 that is fun, easy-to-implement, and encourages reading. 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 trips, readers theatre, guest speakers, and mystery games. The book offers a wide variety of reading activities, ensuring a dynamic, lively reading group. Numerous forms, booklists, booktalks, reading lists, and resource websites offer additional help for educators and library staff. Especially unique and valuable is the reading activities chapter that includes reproducible reading games, a readers theatre script, a folktale "rap," and various booktalks and contests.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781586834159
• Artikelnr.: 37946147

Autorenporträt

Carol Littlejohn is a library media specialist from Knoxville, TN. Her published works include the several volumes of Talk That Book.

Inhaltsangabe

About the Author Reading Activities Matrix Introduction CHAPTER 1: Just the
Facts: Research on Reading and Book Clubs CHAPTER 2: Back to Our (Book)
Sponsors: The Adult Leaders CHAPTER 3: Make It Work! The Place Setting
CHAPTER 4: The Book Clubbers: Let's Go Clubbing! CHAPTER 5: Reading
Activities: The Fun Begins Arts and Crafts Authors, Authors! Battle of the
Books Book Exchange Book Trailers Creative Dramatics Field Trips Guest
Speakers Mystery Games One-Minute Booktalks Booktalks Poster Contest Puppet
Show Rapping Rhymes "Trip Trap Rap" or "The Three Billy Goats Gruff"
Activities Books about Conflict Resolution Read-Aloud Books Reader's
Theater and Urban Legends "Too Good to Be True!" Reader's Theater Script
Reading Games "Literature Bingo" "Safari Reading Game" ScrapBooking Soap
Opera Storytelling Talent Show Trial by Jury Young Authors and Illustrators
CHAPTER 6: Cover to Cover: Recommended Group-Reads CHAPTER 7: Talk That
Book! Book Club Resources APPENDICES: Reproducible Forms "Battle of the
Books" Timeline Book Club Permission Slip Guest Speaker Checklist
Permission Form for Field Trips Publishing Permission Form Reader's Profile
(Ages 9+) Indexes Author Index of Booktalks Title Index of Booktalks
Reading Activities by Grade and Age Preschool (Ages 3+) Kindergarten (Ages
5+) Primary Grades, Grades 1-3 (Ages 6-8) Intermediate Grades, Grades 4-6
(Ages 9-12) Middle School Grades, Grades 7-9 (Ages 13-15) High School,
Grades 10-12 (Ages 16+)