books and reading

"... show[s] how to teach reading as a personal art-a way to develop passionate, critical readers for life-and how to build a schoolwide reading culture on self-selected, voluminous reading ..."--Amazon.

Introduces the think-aloud technique for improving intermediate, middle, and high school students' reading comprehension, and presents classroom scenarios, lessons, activities, and sample student work.

Provides a step-by-step guide to implementing reading instruction in the classroom, and contains thirty reproducible short texts along with assessments, reading strategies, and literacy instruction.

Discusses the ways that boys read, suggests ways to encourage boys to be readers, and recommends both fiction and nonfiction in a variety of formats and genres that will appeal to emerging, developing, and maturing male readers.

The Berenstain Bears love reading and they love checking books out from the library, but when the library is on the verge of shutting down, Brother, Sister and Honey step in to find a way to save their beloved library.

Provides an annotated list of nonfiction books on a variety of topics such as adoption, ballet, fire fighting, and mummies for readers in preschool through junior high school. Includes tips for book activities and reading programs.

"This book offers step-by-step details on how to plan and execute library workshops and programs to inspire creativity in teens"--Provided by publisher.

Shares the author's choice of writing for children instead of adults, including a collection of her essays and speeches.

" ... bring(s) together fourteen educators who use global children's literature to help students explore their own cultural identities. The book lays out why this kind of global curriculum is important and how to make space for it within district and state mandates. Built around a curriculum framework ... , the ideas and strategies in Teaching Globally will help teachers integrate a global focus into existing literacy and social studies curricula, evaluate global resources, guide students as they investigate cross-cultural issues, and create classroom activities with an intercultural perspective"--Amazon.com.