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Worth a Thousand Words

An Annotated Guide to Picture Books for Older Readers

By: Bette D. Ammon,Gale W. Sherman

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Worth a Thousand Words

An Annotated Guide to Picture Books for Older Readers

By: Bette D. Ammon,Gale W. Sherman

This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books-picture books for older readers. A multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom supplements this list of carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction books that focuses on universal themes, appeals to all ages, addresses important issues, and is accessible to multiple learning styles. Picture books aren't just for the very young. Innovative educators and parents have used them for years with readers of all ages and reading levels, knowing that students comprehend more from the visual-verbal connections these books offer. They are great tools for teaching visual literacy and writing skills; are effective with reluctant readers, ESL students, and those reading below grade level; and can easily be used to support various curriculum. This guide provides a single-source, comprehensive listing of a fascinating and helpful group of books and a multitude of ideas about how to use them in the classroom. The authors have carefully selected quality fiction and nonfiction that focus on universal themes, appeal to all ages, treat important issues, and are accessible to multiple learning styles.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313090130

ISBN 13

9780313090134

Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

By: Gale W. Sherman,Bette D. Ammon

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Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

By: Gale W. Sherman,Bette D. Ammon

Selected for their high interest, appealing formats, appropriate reading levels, outstanding writing, and popularity, these contemporary, spellbinding titles (20 for grades 5-8 and 20 for grades 9-12) reflect a variety of genres and themes that will encourage lifelong literacy. Given for each title are genre and themes, review citations, author information, plot summary, reading and interest rankings, booktalks, literature extensions, alternative book report suggestions, and reproducible bookmarks that suggest further reading.

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175

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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ISBN 10

0313080003

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9780313080005

More Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers

By: Bette D. Ammon,Gale W. Sherman

Show reluctant teens that reading is not only fundamental-it's also fun! In this companion book to Rip-Roaring Reads for Reluctant Teen Readers, Ammon and Sherman describe 40 exciting, contemporary titles (20 for middle school, 20 for high school) written by outstanding authors. These are books your students won't want to put down. Designed to make the matching process between student and books easy and successful, this volume also includes genre and theme indexes, curriculum activities, interest and readability levels, and reproducible bookmarks for each entry.

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174

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313077584

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9780313077586

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