Full Description
Literature-Based Reading Activities: Engaging Students with Literary and Informational Text is the ideal resource for pre-service and in-service teachers looking for practical help and exciting classroom activities for ensuring all students have successful interactions with literature. Brief and inexpensive, it is widely appreciated for its numerous activities, unique discussions of the theoretical and research bases supporting all of the activities, and the variety of grade levels and genres covered. The activities are useful with a wide range of texts, and the guidelines show readers how to be effective decision makers as they plan literature instruction for the culturally, linguistically, and academically diverse K-8 students in today's classrooms.
This new edition includes:
Updated information about sharing literature in the context of today's classrooms.
New activities for supporting students' interactions with literature.
Numerous new examples of children's literature, many of them recent award winners.
Updated discussions of research on recent studies and major reports.
A new feature, Take Five! (or Take Ten!).
Ideas and suggestions for using literature in the content areas.
11 new activities for expanding teachers' repertoires for engaging students with literature,
Increased attention to using technology to support students' interactions with and responses to literature,
More than 80 new examples of exceptional literature,
A list of websites of recommended literature, including positive, authentic examples of literature for diverse populations.
Contents
1. Using Literature in the Classroom
Theoretical Perspectives
New Contexts for Sharing Literature
Teacher Responsibilities
Rationale for Selection of Activities for This Book
2. Prereading Activities
Anticipation Guides
Opinionnaires/Questionnaires
Book Boxes
Book Bits
Cover Clues
Character Quotes
Contrast Charts
K-W-L Charts
Semantic Maps
Preview-Predict-Confirm
Concrete Experiences
Picture Packets
Picture Carousels
Quickwrites
Quickdraws
Conclusion
3. During-Reading Activities
Literature Circles
Strategy Cards
Literature Maps
Contrast Charts
Investigator's Notebook
Graphic Organizers
Character Perspective Charts
Character Webs
Character Carousels
Circle of Viewpoints
Feelings Charts
Journals
Character Blogs
Ten Important Words
Pack the Suitcase
Conclusion
4. Postreading Activities
Polar Opposites
Literary Report Cards
Powerful Passages
Sketch to Stretch
3-D Responses
Dramatic Responses
Magazine Cover
Multimedia Responses
Book Trailers
Pod Previews
Venn Diagrams
Book Charts
Internet Investigations
Conclusion
5. Writing and Bookmaking Activities
A Process Approach to Writing
Poetic Responses
Literary Borrowing
Genre Translations
Multigenre Responses
Pop-Up Books
Accordion Books
Fold-Up Books
Mini Fold-Up Books
Slit Books
Retelling Picture Books
Graduated-Pages Books
Baggie Books
Digital Books
Conclusion
Afterword
Appendix: Internet Resources
References
Index
