"This is a Great Book!": 101 Events for Building Enthusiastic Readers Inside and Outside the Classroom-From Chapter Books to Young Adult Novels

by Larry Swartz, Shelley Peterson

Overview

“This Is a Great Book!” champions the belief that having a wide range of “great” books to read is essential to students’ becoming lifelong readers. Based on extensive research, this highly readable book includes recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages, from early chapter books to young adult novels. The 101 literacy events include a wealth of practical strategies: more than 50 reproducible activities, assessment profiles, and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, this passionate book invites readers to dig deeper by responding through writing, discussion, the arts, media, and more.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781551383088
Publisher:	Pembroke Publishers Limited
Publication date:	09/30/2015
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.80(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	9 - 17 Years

About the Author

Larry Swartz is a literacy and drama instructor at OISE–University of Toronto. Larry has worked as a classroom teacher, a consultant, and a workshop presenter. He has worked with teachers throughout North America, and groups of teachers in China, New Zealand, and with Queen Noor’s Literacy Initiative in Jordan. Larry is committed to helping teachers use quality children’s literature to inspire kids to read and have fun with language. Larry resides in Toronto.

Editorial Reviews

This is a Great Book! is rooted in the belief that offer­ing your students great books to read and showing them how to dig deeper into their own responses to them is the foundation of turning them into real readers. This all-in-one guide, which starts with the underpinning educational research and ends at assessment profiles, blackline masters and appendices, represents a continuum of reading in many genres from chapter books to young adult novels.
 
Novels are a great way to stimulate students’ critical abilities and to engage with a wide range of responses that can transcend words and open possibilities and concepts in the wider world. The 101 literacy events outlined in the book invite students to delve into a text not only with written responses but with discussion, through the arts and using online media. Attention is given to exploring reading that is based on the preferences and tastes of students as they develop a lifelong love of reading.
 
Mary Veronica Moloney, OCT, teaches Grade 4 at D’Arcy McGee Catholic School with the Toronto Catholic District School Board.

Professionally Speaking (the official magazine of the Ontario College of Teachers)

June 2017

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