Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Surefire Winners for Middle and High School Readers

Jennifer Bromann-Bender

doi:10.5771/9780810888098

Summary

Booktalking Nonfiction: 200 Sure-Fire Winners for Middle and High School Readers will provide an introduction to selecting and writing booktalks for nonfiction books with a focus on unique informational texts and biographies and autobiographies. A booktalk is a summary of a book presented in a way that would interest someone in reading the book described.

Why non-fiction? Because the Common Core Standards Initiative, which most states have adopted, requires that 70% of the materials students read be from the category of informational texts it is especially important to focus on nonfiction when sharing books with students. Here’s everything you need to do just that.

Chapters cover selecting, writing, preparing, and presenting booktalks, special tips for high-interest, low-level books, and using non-fiction in the library and the classroom. Two hundred ready-to-present booktalks arranged by genre are also included. Genres include animals, famous people, sports, crime and serial killers, movies and television, religion, war, history, and the supernatural.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2013
Copyright Year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-0-8108-8808-1
ISBN-Online: 978-0-8108-8809-8
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 153
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. List of Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
4. 1. Selection Criteria No access
  2. About the Booktalks No access
  3. How to Use This Book No access
  4. References No access
1. Selecting Nonfiction Books No access
2. Writing Nonfiction Booktalks No access
3. Read, Skim, Select No access
4. Ending a Booktalk or Tying in the Title No access
5. Presenting Booktalks No access
6. Themes and Categories No access
7. Lower Levels No access
8. References No access
1. References No access
1. Book Uses No access
2. Collaboration with Booktalks No access
3. Ideas for Contests, Displays, and Alternative Methods of Booktalking No access
4. References No access
1. Sad Stories No access
2. Animals No access
3. Crime and Serial Killers No access
4. Illness No access
5. Overcoming the Odds No access
6. History, World Issues, and War No access
7. Science, Health, and Inventions No access
8. The Unknown No access
9. Sports No access
10. The Arts (Crafts, Music, Paintings, Architecture, Fashion) No access
11. People No access
12. Math No access
13. Other Topics of Interest No access
14. References No access
Author Index No access Pages 129 - 132
Subject Index No access Pages 133 - 144
Title Index No access Pages 145 - 152
About the Author No access Pages 153 - 153