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9780439260824

Your Classroom Library: New Ways to Give It More Teaching Power Great Teacher-Tested and Research-Based Strategies for Organizing and Using Your Library to Increase Students? Reading Achievement

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  • ISBN13:

    9780439260824

  • ISBN10:

    0439260825

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2002-06-01
  • Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching
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List Price: $18.99

Summary

Ready to go far beyond the usual classroom book collection to make your library a dynamic support for all your literacy teaching? In this practical, one-of-a-kind book, two veteran educators show you how to use your library as: A resource for mini-lessons on book selection, author's craft, comprehension strategies and other literacy lessons. A source for interactive read-alouds. An extension of your shared-reading and guided-reading instruction. A motivating place for students' independent reading in many genres. A gallery of student book responses, recommendations, and student-authored works. And much more!

Author Biography

Dr. D. Ray Reutzel is the Emma Eccles Jones Endowed Chair of Early Childhood Education at Utah State University in Logan, Utah. He teaches reading and language education courses for preservice and in-service teachers at Utah State University. He has taught kindergarten, 1, 3, 5, and 6 grades in elementary schools. Dr. Reutzel has authored more than 125 articles, books, book chapters, and monographs and is a regular Parker Fawson is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Head in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University in Logan, Utah where he teaches undergraduate and graduate literacy courses. Dr. Fawson taught primary and intermediate students in elementary school. He is the Editor of Literacy Research and Instruction and has published literacy research in numerous professional journals. Scholastic Professional Books.

Table of Contents

Creating and Sustaining an Effective Classroom Library
7(24)
The Growing Importance of the Classroom Library
8(2)
The Place of the Classroom Library in a Balanced Reading Program
10(1)
Five Major Functions of the Classroom Library
11(5)
Planning Your Classroom Library
16(9)
Determine the Nature of the Collection
16(1)
Establish the Size of the Collection
17(1)
Build Your Collection
18(5)
Use the Collection for Responses to Reading
23(2)
What an Effective Classroom Library Looks Like: Organization and Layout
25(6)
Organize to Help Accomplish Your Major Goals
25(2)
Other Criteria and Practices for Organizing the Classroom Library
27(4)
Helping Children Make Successful Book Selections
31(22)
What Children Do When Selecting Books
32(3)
Four Book Selection Strategies
34(1)
Factors That Influence Book Selection
35(4)
Personal Valuing
36(1)
Physical Characteristics
37(1)
Topics or Themes
37(1)
Genre and Author Preference
37(1)
Personal Recommendations
38(1)
Character Knowledge
38(1)
Displays and Read Alouds
38(1)
Arranging Your Classroom Library to Guide and Influence Children's Book Selection
39(5)
Label Shelves
40(1)
Post Directions
40(1)
Display Books With Covers Facing Out
41(1)
Use Posters and Whiteboards
42(1)
Use Chart Pads for Showing Connections Among Books
42(1)
Organize Books Logically
43(1)
Set Up Books at Children's Eye Level
44(1)
What You Can Do to Give Children Appropriate Strategies for Book Selection
44(9)
Ensuring Equal Access for All Students
46(1)
Getting to Know the Library
47(1)
Book Talks
48(1)
Finding a Book to Read
49(3)
Checking the Reading Level
52(1)
How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading to Children?
53(18)
Why We Should Read Aloud to Children in the First Place
54(17)
Some Historical Perspective
55(1)
Interactive Read-Alouds
56(15)
How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading With Children?
71(26)
Use Your Classroom Library to Make Shared Reading Come Alive
72(3)
What Is Shared Reading?
72(1)
How to Conduct a Shared Reading or Shared Book Experience
73(1)
Put the Classroom Library at the Core of Shared Reading
74(1)
Use Your Classroom Library to Make Guided Reading Come Alive
75(14)
Primary Grades
76(1)
Intermediate Grades
76(1)
Gather Guided Reading Books to Provide That ``Just Right'' Match
77(8)
Put Books at the Core of Intermediate-Grade Mini-Lessons
85(2)
Put Books at the Core of Intermediate-Grade Literature Response Group Meetings
87(2)
Use Your Classroom Library to Make the Reading-Writing Connection Come Alive
89(4)
Writer's Craft Mini-Lessons
90(3)
Use Your Classroom Library to Make the Reading-Writing Connection Come Alive
93(1)
Use Your Classroom Library to Reinforce Reading and Language Instruction
93(4)
Word Solving
93(1)
Finding the Important Information
94(1)
Making Predictions
95(2)
How Does the Classroom Library Support Reading by Children?
97(18)
Why It Is Important for Students to Participate in Voluntary Reading
98(3)
How Motivation for Voluntary Reading Is Influenced by Ready Access to Books
101(1)
The Role of the Classroom Library in Motivating and Supporting Voluntary Reading
102(10)
Focus on One Factor in an Effective Classroom Library: The Element of Student Choice
102(1)
Determine Students' Interests
102(4)
Include Books That Represent All Genres
106(3)
Include Books That Represent Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
109(3)
Integrate the Classroom Library and Instruction That Supports Independent Reading
112(3)
Selected References 115(3)
Selected Children's Books 118(5)
Independent Reading Management Forms 123

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