books and reading

Explains how teachers and librarians can steer students to the literature they love by focusing on three key areas: knowing the readers, knowing the books, and knowing the strategies to motivate students to read.

Presents annotations and bibliographic information for five hundred high interest, low reading level books, magazines, and Web sites for students in grades 6-12.

Contains passages from two hundred books published between 2000 and 2008, appropriate for reading aloud to children and teens, and includes advice on how to prepare for a read-aloud, subject and grade-level indexes, and an annotated bibliography.

An alphabetical listing of over thirty-three thousand recommended books for students in kindergarten through eighth grade, each with notations on level, genre, word count, author/series, and publisher/distributor.

Discusses the importance of the classroom library, and offers advice on how to create and sustain an effective classroom library, help children make successful book selections, and support reading to, with, and by children. Includes suggested book lists.

Defines the different genres of children's literature, states why each one is valuable in teaching literacy in first through fifth grade, and provides lessons, reproducible worksheets, and book recommendations.

Suggests age-appropriate stories and literature to read aloud to children and teenagers, and provides descriptions of the recommended passages from more than two hundred titles.

A resource guide for teachers that provides practical information, book summaries, literary insights, and teaching ideas for approximately 150 books appropriate for fourth and fifth graders.

A guide to forming, managing, and assessing peer-led book discussion groups that provides strategies, structures, tools, and stories which demonstrate how to launch a guide successful literature circles.

Offers middle school librarians and teachers practical suggestions for reviving students' enthusiasm for reading, with ideas for workshops, activities, and literacy programs.