Full 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.
Contents
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
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