reading promotion

Offers advice to teachers on how to make reading meaningful to students through active engagement and socially interactive projects, featuring over fifty project ideas in the categories of entertainment, active participation, control and choice, and technology.

A practical guide that takes a teen-centered approach to implementing a successful book-club, and contains tips on developing teen leaders, sample discussion prompters, checklists and reproducible worksheets, and innovative ideas that will attract and retain teen readers.

Explains how teachers and librarians can steer students to the literature they love by focusing on three key areas: knowing the readers, knowing the books, and knowing the strategies to motivate students to read.

Argues that the standard instructional practices used by most schools is contributing to the decline of reading, and suggests ways in which teachers and administrators can encourage the development of lifelong readers.

Offers middle school librarians and teachers practical suggestions for reviving students' enthusiasm for reading, with ideas for workshops, activities, and literacy programs.

Presents guidance for parents on reading aloud, encouraging reluctant readers, rewarding progress, and getting involved in a child's school, and lists over three thousand children's books, providing at-home story-time, craft, cooking, science, and related-reading activities.

Explains how to use reading ladders in the classroom, discussing book selection, building a classroom library, promoting content-area knowledge, and assessment.

Presents a comprehensive manual designed to develop and implement effective reading programs for Preschool through seventh grade and contains information on storytimes, booktalks, writing, drama, and more.