Active Reading: Activities for Librarians and Teachers

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Teacher Librarian Beth McGuire provides librarians and teachers with reproducible activities to encourage students to think about, discuss and provide a purpose for reading current star reviewed and award winning literature while practicing their comprehension strategies. Activities reinforce comprehension of the material and include an extension activity for going beyond the text, allowing the students to practice their higher level thinking skills. Librarians and teachers can make copies of the activities to directly incorporate into their lessons in the content areas. Titles included are organized by level and by curricular area. Usable for grades 6-8.

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McGuire, a school librarian, provides reproducible activities for grades six to eight teachers and librarians for use in helping students think about and discuss literature. She focuses on recently published, critically praised, and award winning fiction and nonfiction (many are Junior Literary Guild selections), including history, science, biography, historical fiction, and others. Each activity is accompanied by descriptions of the book's awards and distinctions, connected major skills and content areas, reading levels, the author's website, questions, and suggested answers to projects and reader response questions. * Reference & Research Book News *

Author Bio

Beth McGuire is the Library Media Specialist K-12 for the Fannett Metal School, Willow Hill, Pennsylvania.