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One of the projects I enjoyed the most this term was the book talk videos created by one of our fifth grade classes.

These games and exercises are meant to get everybody in a cheery mood, establish trust between the players, and sharpen concentration.

Literature Circles: Getting Adolescents to Read, Think, Discuss, Write, & Connect Around Texts

A short " The Best Sources For Advice On Student Blogging" list the places I've found most helpful, and I'd certainly like to solicit other suggestions for additions to this list.

collection of student work on their fav books

There are lots of web sites that although not specifically made for boys' literacy needs, offer great activities that seem to be particularly good for encouraging boys.

boys, blokes, books and bytes promotes reading. It is a project of the Centre for Youth Literature,

Boys, Blokes, Books & Bytes is a new program designed to make reading enjoyable and meaningful for adolescent boys

How do you inspire kids to read?

For a list of gamebooks, see List of gamebooks. A gamebook is a book that allows the reader to participate in the story by making choices that affect the course of the narrative

We want the students to get back into reading books, talking about books and thinking the language of books

How do you select books to read? Do you use the jacket cover? Word of mouth? Reading lists? Which comes first, reading a book or watching a movie made from it?

The newest way to promote your book is with a video! These videos are called Book Trailers. They are similar to a movie trailer,

Audience Participation Stories are great fun. Good for ice breakers or to do at the start of meetings, to get people warmed up and in a jolly mood.

What are different ways of engaging adolescent boys in reading? Not book talks by TL. looking forward to ideas from you all

Building Vocabulary Skills The more words kids know, the more background knowledge they can bring to reading and writing tasks. How can we help our students learn new words?

Writing their own blog posts can open up a whole new world for your students. Most likely it will be the first time that the readers of their work will be someone other than their teacher and possibly their parent.

Enter a book, CD or DVD that you enjoyed and the site will analyse our database of real users' preferences to suggest other books, CDs or DVDs that you might like.

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