Getting Beyond "Interesting"
Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading
- 204 pages
- English
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Getting Beyond "Interesting"
Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading
About This Book
Make use of a detailed plan and ready-to-use lessons for teaching appeal terms and Book Hook writing to students. Getting Beyond "Interesting": Teaching Students the Vocabulary of Appeal to Discuss Their Reading is a practical application book that gives librarians all the tools they need to implement the teaching of both appeal terms and Book Hook writing and sharing. When students know how to write Book Hooks and have access to an easy-to-use system for allowing students to share Book Hooks, the result is greatly increased reading through the power of peer recommendations. This book not only supplies a detailed plan for teaching appeal terms and Book Hook writing, but it also provides two extensive appendices containing all the black line masters and forms needed to implement these lessons. As a result, practitioners will be able to enhance their students' reading culture through increased sharing of readingâand most importantly, by empowering students with the ability to clearly define their reading preferences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part One: A Plan for Implementing the Teaching of Appeal Terms and Book Hooks
- Part Two: On to the Students
- Bibliography
- Index