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 guide for book clubs, literature circles, and discussion groups, grades 4-8
Knowles, Elizabeth
2003
A guide to creating book discussion groups for elementary and middle school students that offers discussion topics and activity ideas for fifteen titles of different genres.
Contains five thousand twentieth-century quotations, arranged alphabetically by speaker's name; features special sections on misquotations, newspaper headlines, political slogans, and film lines; and includes subject and key word indexes.
practical strategies for librarians, teachers, and parents
Knowles, Elizabeth
2005
Offers strategies for librarians, teachers, and parents to help develop literacy in boys, and focuses on the particular genres that interest them such as adventure, science fiction, fantasy, and mysteries.
Collects over five thousand twentieth- and twenty-first-century quotations from such areas as politics, journalism, literature, music, television, sports, and film, and includes keyword and thematic indexes.
