books and reading

Provides tools for teaching prekindergarten through first grade, including craft patterns; rest activities such as stories, fingerplays, rhymes, and songs; and annotated book lists, arranged in nearly fifty seasonal themes.

Offers teachers proven strategies for differentiation through innovative instruction that can help gifted, talented, and exceptionally conscientious adolescents make the most of their learning.

Provides a theoretical rationale for starting out-of-school book clubs and practical strategies for nurturing them and using them to give teens positive reading experiences and gain insight about their reading and useful information for instruction.

"This book combines an introduction to readers' advisory language, vocabulary and techniques with information about what teens like to read and why, followed by an examination of the appeal lurking within each genre. All in service to the goal of using readers' advisory to help teens find the right books at the right time"--Provided by publisher.

Presents an annotated listing of multicultural books for young people ages eleven to fifteen, arranged alphabetically by title, with author and cultural indexes. Expands the definition of multicultural to cover ethnicity, sexual orientation, and physical, mental, or emotional challenges.

An annotated bibliography of over 500 children's books suitable for children aged three or under.

Offers public and school librarians practical tools to help them develop and adapt their collections, services, and programs to meet the diverse needs of young adults.

Provides complete plans for fifty reading promotion units for teens, each with suggestions for displays, prizes, games, forms, and activities, and including lists of books, films, magazines, and computer software.

Presents twenty ready-to-use reproducible role sheets for use with student-centered book discussion groups in grades one through three, and includes advice on how to set up literature circles, as well as other reference aids.