READING ENCOURAGEMENT
Author Visits:
Tips and help for Author visits at Curriculum World
The current ekite index is available online and to download.The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators of Western Washington have compiled information about member visits
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Reading is our Business: How Libraries Can Foster Reading Comprehension by Sharon Grimes Chicago: American Library Association. 2006 ISBN: 0838909124 An elementary teacherlibrarian in Philadelphia shares her work with students for developing comprehension based on the work of Stephanie Harvey and others. The invitation -- Creating a community connecting -- Visualizing -- Questioning -- Finding answers -- Determining importance -- Inferring and predicting -- Analyzing and synthesizing -- Transforming our libraries to make reading our business -- Appendix A: Teaching comprehension strategies with great books -- Appendix B: More resources for supporting strategy instruction. |
Reading Aloud
Jim Trelease continues the work he started with his Read Aloud Handbook
Book Chats
ALAN offers an online book discussion the third Wed of the month and then the author
of the selected book joins the discussion that continues on the fourth Wed. 6 pm Pacific time. Easy to use
software- just click on main page http://alan-ya.org The ALAN Book Chat. Even slow dial-up access works well with the software.
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