Booktalking Across the Curriculum: Middle Years

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Promote fiction-reading across the middle school curriculum! With more than 160 booktalks and 330 book suggestions at your fingertips, this invaluable resource makes it easy to pick just the right books for your students. Designed to fit curricular studies, the book is organized by subject area:^L ^DBLUnited States History^L ^DBLWorld History^L ^DBLSocial Studies^L^DBLLanguage Arts and Literature^L ^DBLMathematics^L^DBLScience^L^DBLThe Arts^L ^DBLPhysical Education and Sports^L Extra chapters include booktalks that foster critical thinking and deal with humorous titles. Carefully chosen based on appeal, age-appropriateness, and positive reviews, each book is designated with suggested grade and reading levels. All of the booktalks are accompanied by learning extensions that can be used as assignments or as starting points for further discussion. Complete bibliographic information and short annotations are provided for each title. You'll select and prepare terrific booktalks in no time-and your students will listen with enthusiasm.

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.,."will enhance the way you give booktalks and give you confidence in the books you suggest."-Christian School Teacher
...will enhance the way you give booktalks and give you confidence in the books you suggest.-Christian School Teacher
Educators will appreciate the fresh ideas, ease of use, and multitude of fiction and nonfiction works to enhance their instruction. Public librarians who visit schools will be able to quickly pull books that are applicable to the student's current curricular fields of study and will be prepared to talk about them in a way that will get a book into the hands of a reader....motivating if you have been wanting to begin booktalking but are not sure how. Exceptional.-The Shy Librarian
Features 170 booktalks and 330 book suggestions, organized by subject, of appealing, age-appropriate titles (primarily fiction).-Teacher Librarian
The thoughtfully chosen lists of books are valuable alone, as teachers seek to link lterature to their curriculum, but this resource is not merely a book of lists. Reading Keane's booktalks provides training in how to do them; no need for explanations....She pulls the listener or reader into the book immediately, leaving this reviewer eager to find the books she has not yet read. The learning extension ideas are brief and helpful. ...they address diverse learning styles. This book...is extremely useful, and one hopes that it will be updated every few years.-VOYA
There are many booktalking resources available for teachers and librarians. What sets this book apart from the others is how well it supports the curriculum in middle grade classrooms....This title promises to be a terrific resource for both classroom teachers and librarians.-Library Media Connection
This author has made a valuable contribution with her well-written booktalks, learning ideas, and choices of books to use.-Booklist
This up-to-date and practical handbook offers 170 ready-to-go booktalks, primarily of fiction; 330 additional annotated reading suggestions; and learning extension ideas that promote comprehension, discussion, writing, and research....The objective of this book is not remediation, but expansion of students' reading horizons and exposure to books on a variety of topics. This handy guide will lead teachers, librarians, and students to a diverse, quality selection of books that builds literacy, generates enthusiasm for reading, and reflects the middle-school curriculum.-School Library Journal
..."will enhance the way you give booktalks and give you confidence in the books you suggest."-Christian School Teacher
"Educators will appreciate the fresh ideas, ease of use, and multitude of fiction and nonfiction works to enhance their instruction. Public librarians who visit schools will be able to quickly pull books that are applicable to the student's current curricular fields of study and will be prepared to talk about them in a way that will get a book into the hands of a reader....motivating if you have been wanting to begin booktalking but are not sure how. Exceptional."-The Shy Librarian
"Features 170 booktalks and 330 book suggestions, organized by subject, of appealing, age-appropriate titles (primarily fiction)."-Teacher Librarian
"The thoughtfully chosen lists of books are valuable alone, as teachers seek to link lterature to their curriculum, but this resource is not merely a book of lists. Reading Keane's booktalks provides training in how to do them; no need for explanations....She pulls the listener or reader into the book immediately, leaving this reviewer eager to find the books she has not yet read. The learning extension ideas are brief and helpful. ...they address diverse learning styles. This book...is extremely useful, and one hopes that it will be updated every few years."-VOYA
"There are many booktalking resources available for teachers and librarians. What sets this book apart from the others is how well it supports the curriculum in middle grade classrooms....This title promises to be a terrific resource for both classroom teachers and librarians."-Library Media Connection
"This author has made a valuable contribution with her well-written booktalks, learning ideas, and choices of books to use."-Booklist
"This up-to-date and practical handbook offers 170 ready-to-go booktalks, primarily of fiction; 330 additional annotated reading suggestions; and learning extension ideas that promote comprehension, discussion, writing, and research....The objective of this book is not remediation, but expansion of students' reading horizons and exposure to books on a variety of topics. This handy guide will lead teachers, librarians, and students to a diverse, quality selection of books that builds literacy, generates enthusiasm for reading, and reflects the middle-school curriculum."-School Library Journal

Author Bio

NANCY J. KEANE is Library Media Specialist, Rundlett Middle School, Concord, New Hampshire. She is recipient of the 2004 Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)/Sagebrush Education Resources Literature Program Award.