reading promotion

Contains forty original programs designed to help students improve their reading skills; includes full descriptions of each program, its appropriate age level, program length, audience limit, preparation instructions, and patterns and instructions for related crafts.

Presents a practical guide designed to help motivate teens to read, with background information for approximately 100 fiction and nonfiction titles.

Presents a practical guide to planning and hosting author visits ; and provides information on selecting an author, choosing the type of event, publicity, and managing the autograph line.

A guide to booktalking, discussing the needs of reluctant teen readers, explaining techniques for finding and discussing books that might grab the attention of teens, presenting fifty examples of booktalks, and including a list of Internet resources, and a bibliography of other sources.

Presents a comprehensive guide that helps librarians and teachers develop adequate library collections, services, and programs that meet the specific needs of young adults.

Presents brief book descriptions for presentation by librarians or teachers, designed to intrigue teen readers, on over one hundred fiction and nonfiction books, and includes bibliographic information, plot summaries, discussion questions, activities, and other supplemental materials.

Offers teachers, librarians, and teen group leaders useful tips and strategies designed to help teen readers connect with books from different genres.

Contains instructions for one hundred kinesthetic activities which use nonfiction materials and promote learning in students in fourth through eighth grade, covering science, mathematics, geometry, and U.S. history.