Full Description
Book clubs, literature circles, and reading groups are great ways to promote literacy and books to young readers. This new guide provides everything you need to run a dynamic, no-fuss book discussion group with elementary and middle school students. Featuring 15 titles of diverse genres, it offers discussion topics and activity ideas for some of the best new reads for kids.
Brought to you by the authors of the highly acclaimed Reading Rules! Motivating Teens to Read, this guide is an outstanding resource for starting and running a stellar literary discussion group—whether it's in a school, public library, or community center. Grades 4-8.
Contents
Introduction Night Hoops by Carl Deuker Heart to Heart edited by Jan Greenberg Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen A Long Way from Chicago by Richard Peck Among the Hidden by Margaret Peterson Haddix A Time Apart by Diane Stanley Pharaoh's Daughter by Julius Lester Rowan of Rin by Emily Rodda Shakespeare by Michael Rosen Williwaw! by Tom Bodett Skeleton Man by Joseph Bruchac Ties that Bind Ties that Break by Lensey Namioka Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo Lord of the Deep by Graham Salisbury Monster by Walter Dean Myers Annotated Professional Resources
