Web Site: www.thereadingroundup.com/2018/03/bring-heat-to-your-book-talks.html
People read what interests them! Ensure your book talk is engaging and generates the interest needed to motivate others to read the book.
H = Hook (Gain the audience’s attention.)
E = Energy (Say it loud and proud!)
A = Audience (why should they care about your book?)
T = Time (Keep it brief.)
View the 3 minute video to learn how to “Bring the H. E. A. T.” to your book talk.
The goal of a Readbox is to build our students’ personal libraries by providing them with free books. Often, students earn a book from the Readbox as part of a school’s independent reading program. By rewarding reading with reading, students are provided continuous opportunities to practice their literacy skills.
Ideally, a Readbox should:
Readbox Examples:
Website: www.seussville.com/Educators/educatorClassroomResources.php
The Seussville website hosted by Random House has a variety of resources to support reading initiatives, lessons, and to promote the reading of books by Dr. Seuss.
When organizing the media center collection, consider facing out book covers throughout the collection. Publishers use book covers to market books, so take advantage of their marketing. In the examples below, both media center collections represent the startup collection in two schools that serve a small number of students. From the examples, you can see how displaying book covers throughout the collection highlights what the schools have rather than demonstrating what they do not have. As patrons check out books, books should be moved to the book stands to ensure covers are always facing out.
