Full Description
Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described.
Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here's everything you need to do just that.
Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Selecting, Writing, Preparing, and Presenting Nonfiction Booktalks
Selecting Nonfiction Books
Locating Nonfiction
Writing Nonfiction Booktalks
Read, Skim, Select
Ending a Booktalk
Presenting Booktalks
Themes and Categories
Lower Levels
Chapter 2: Quick Talks
Chapter 3: Using Nonfiction in the Library or Classroom
Book Uses
History and Social Science
Science and Math
English, Art and Music
Collaboration with Booktalks
Bookmarks and Booktalks
Group Choices
Fun Reads
Classroom Projects
Students Presenting Booktalks
Ideas for Contests, Displays, and Alternative Methods of Booktalking
Fast Facts
Stump the Librarian
Book Match
Speed Dating
Blind Books
Scavenger Hunt
QR Codes
Book Trailers and Subject Matter Videos
Pictures
Book Reviews
Book Box
eBooks
Museum
Book Blasts
Summer Reading
Top 10
Bingo
Chapter 4: Booktalking by Genre
Sad Stores
Animals
Crime and Serial Killers
Illness
Overcoming the Odds
History, World Issues, and War
Science, Health and Inventions
The Unknown
Sports
The Arts
Other Topics of Interest
People
Math
Genre Index
Author Index
Title Index
