books and reading

Contains a collection of lessons plans designed for teachers of first and second grade readers, including bibliographic information, with overviews of setting, character, plot, and summary for thirty-five chapter books.

A manual of ways to use children's books, with a series of graded annotated list of over 3,500 kid-tested and recommended titles, plus author, subject, and title indexes.

Provides instruction on using Caldecott winning books to begin or enhance whole language instructional lesson plans.

A simple biography of the nineteenth-century Frenchman who as a boy created a system by which the blind could read.

Contains reproducible activity pages for 101 children's literature selections, which librarians can send home to parents. Each activity page contains bibliographic information, a summary, discussion questions parents and children can share, activities that parents and children can do together, and a list of related titles.

Develops activity units for reading comprehension in primary grades based on the works of twelve authors. Also provides brief biographical information on each of the authors.

Provides a definition of young adult literature, explores the nature of adolescence, offers specific recommendations for choosing authors and books and using them in the classroom, and includes lists of titles in different genres and for various purposes, as well as brief interviews with over thirty popular authors.

Contains a teacher's guide to some of the books that appeal to teens including seven essays by teachers about their individual reading experiences.

Seventeen essays examine the genre of children's literature, covering the genre's definition, its growth, its common themes, and controversy in the genre; also includes a chronology and a bibliography.