reading promotion

"... 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.

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.

Discusses prioritizing reading in libraries and in schools, focusing on the important role libraries have, a librarian's job of searching for research findings, and making pleasure reading a priority.

"This inspiring guide shows how to implement the principles of the Slow Book movement in high schools, public libraries, and college campuses, with the ultimate goals of encouraging pensive reading habits and creating a lifelong enjoyment of books"--Provided by publisher.

Explains how to structure a young adult library to attract male teens, discussing fiction and nonfiction, teen advisory boards, design and display, programs, and other related topics.

Contains more than 125 booktalks designed to help students in grades six through eight improve their reading skills.

"Provides a research-based context for cultivating children's intrinsic motivation to read and identifies three essential principles, the "ARC" of motivation--access: giving kids a wealth of reading materials and opportunities to discuss texts; relevance: offering high interest, moderately challenging and authentic reading experiences; and choice: allowing students to self-select texts and reading activities."--Back cover.

"In a time when reading instruction is being marginalized and replaced with scripted reading programs, Independent reading : creating lifelong readers gives concrete suggestions for creating independent reading programs that make a difference. In a hands-on, approachable style, authors Barbara Moss and Terrell Young show you how to effectively reestablish independent reading as a central focus in your K-6 classroom"--Page 4 of cover.