Talking Texts
A Teachers' Guide to Book Clubs Across the Curriculum
1st Edition
Published on 18. June 2019
140 pages
979-8-7651-8099-0 (ISBN)
Description
Talking Texts is a guide for teachers to the steps and strategies of implementing text clubs in many forms- fiction and nonfiction book clubs, textbook clubs, article clubs, and even poetry clubs-in the classroom. All strategies presented are applicable to any discipline so that text clubs can be employed across the curriculum in any grade level.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
23 b/w photos; 2 tables; 4 textboxes
ISBN-13
979-8-7651-8099-0 (9798765180990)
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Book
06/2019
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€37.80
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Persons
Lesley Roessing, was a middle and high school teacher for over twenty years and Sr Lecturer, College of Education, Armstrong State University for nine years, working with K-12 teachers as Founding Director of the Coastal Savannah Writing Project. She now serves as Literacy Consultant at a K-8 school. This is her fifth book on literacy for teachers.
Content
Foreword - Lester Laminack
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining School Book Clubs
Chapter 2: Setting Up Book Clubs
Chapter 3: Preparing for Book Clubs: Teaching Social Skills
Chapter 4: Book Club Procedures & Lessons
Chapter 5: Book Club Reflections
Chapter 6: Book Club Text Synthesis & Presentations
Chapter 7: Book Club Assessment
Chapter 8: Planning Book Club Reading
Chapter 9: Text Clubs across the Curriculum
Chapter 10: A Sample Book Club Unit: The 9/11 Novel Unit
References
Appendix: Reproducible Forms
About the Author
Introduction
Chapter 1: Defining School Book Clubs
Chapter 2: Setting Up Book Clubs
Chapter 3: Preparing for Book Clubs: Teaching Social Skills
Chapter 4: Book Club Procedures & Lessons
Chapter 5: Book Club Reflections
Chapter 6: Book Club Text Synthesis & Presentations
Chapter 7: Book Club Assessment
Chapter 8: Planning Book Club Reading
Chapter 9: Text Clubs across the Curriculum
Chapter 10: A Sample Book Club Unit: The 9/11 Novel Unit
References
Appendix: Reproducible Forms
About the Author
