reading promotion

Describes a variety of motivational techniques designed to encourage young teens to read, including reading workshops, literature circles, book clubs, booktalks, and interdisciplinary and thematic units; and includes annotated lists of young adult literature.

A source book for teachers that profiles one hundred fiction and nonfiction books for teens, providing summaries, "booktalk" paragraphs designed to motivate kids to read the books, related activities, and annotated lists of related works.

Discusses how to help pre-adolescent boys achieve reading skills equivalent to girls in the same age group, covering new programming ideas, ways to renew male students' desire to read, signs that point to the reading gap, and strategies for the promotion of literacy.

Describes sixteen reading incentive programs designed to encourage students to read for pleasure, each with reproducible activity sheets and forms; and includes step-by-step advice on how to plan successful reading programs, and a list of resources.

Offers library professionals practical tips for promoting books and and encouraging teens to read, with ideas for environmental reading promotions and interactive promotions geared towards teens.

A practical guide to planning school wide book events that includes a wide variety of event ideas, activity suggestions, planning techniques, and event-day logistics.

Presents an annotated listing of fiction and nonfiction titles published from 1998 through 2001 that are appropriate for use in kindergarten through sixth-grade classrooms, each with bibliographic information, age level, a summary, a booktalk, curriculum connections, and list of related books, grouped in the categories of language arts and literature, mathematics and science, social studies, and arts and recreation.

A guide to family-oriented book clubs for librarians that describes four types of family-oriented book clubs and offers advice on how to set up and maintain a book club in the library setting.

Presents suggestions for creating book contests for students in elementary school, including information on over three hundred popular and classic book titles for grades K-5 with sample questions, related web sites, contest basics, reading activities, and research ideas.

A comprehensive resource for library media and technology specialists that help them to motivate readers in the middle school setting.