Full Description
Drawing on her long experience as a school librarian, the author uses this middle school library programming book to help you promote free voluntary reading through innovative workshops, staff training, collection development, and collaborative curricular planning. Her goal: to revive the enthusiasm for reading that is often lost by the middle school years. Her recommendation: creative library literacy programming designed to pique flagging interest in reading for pleasure. Chapters focus on how to use the school's calendar and curriculum to get the time needed for the focused program as well as ways to manipulate budgets, get grants and other monies to build a strong literature-oriented program and collection. One chapter focuses entirely on how to get faculty to become readers of YA and children's literature in order to become models for their students. Other programs discussed are author visits, book fairs, whole school reading programs, journaling for readers and many more. Also included is an annotated bibliography of great reads. Grades 4-12.
Contents
Foreword by Jack Gantos
Introduction
Part 1:Why Literature
Why Literature is Important Now
Mass Communication Pile-up
Importance of Literature in School LIbraries
Cooperative Planning
Part 2: Setting-up the Foundations for Literature Programs
Integrating Literature Into the Curriculum
Collection & Adolescent Development: What is "Appropriate?"
Part 3: Programs
Title Trekking: A Reading Incentive Program
Reader's Workshop--Storytime Enchantment for Young Adults
Reader's Workshop & Journaling
Visiting Author Program
Raising Cash (AKA: Budget R Bogus)
YA Literature to Grab Adults
Personal Conclusion:
It Makes a Difference
Index
