Book Review Bingo: More book review cliche fun than you can shake a riveting, unputdown... - 7 views
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Dana Huff on 20 Mar 10This game would be good for teaching cliches.
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Community Club Home Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Scholastic - 3 views
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From Richard Byrne Free Technology for teacher, quoted below:Listen and Read - Non-fiction Read Along Activities Listen and Read is a set of 54 non-fiction stories from Scholastic for K-2 students. The stories are feature pictures and short passages of text that students can read on their own or have read to them by each story's narrator. The collection of stories is divided into eight categories: social studies, science, plants and flowers, environmental stories, civics and government, animals, American history, and community. Applications for Education Listen and Read looks to be a great resource for social studies lessons and reading practice in general. At the end of each book there is a short review of the new words that students were introduced to in the book. Students can hear these words pronounced as many times as they like. Listen and Read books worked on my computer and on my Android tablet. Scholastic implies that the books also work on iPads and IWBs"
Not the Booker prize: Pictures of Lily by Matthew Yorke | Books | guardian.co.uk - 2 views
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hmmmmm...I have had students tell me that YoungAdult ficiton is mostly "kid books" interesting review. Anyone read this book?
A GeekyMomma's Blog: 30 Places to Find Free Books, Book Summaries, and Book Reviews Online - 0 views
Books for Boys - 0 views
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Blog with suggestions/reviews of books which might be interesting to boy readers
Teens @ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - 5 views
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Great book lists and reviews
7 Brilliant Book Trailers | Brain Pickings - 12 views
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I found these exciting projects, too. I would ask teachers to require kids NOT SPOIL the plot -- or, at least to warn viewers of spoilers. My students could not watch any of the SPEAK trailers for this reason.
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5 trailers for unique books-- great to inspire reading, or to serve as examples of the clear thinking that goes into creating a great review. My kids were fascinated, great discussion ensued as we plan our PechaKucha book reports
The Stacks for Kids | Scholastic.com - 12 views
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Create profile page and share book reviews
Student Book Talks - A Huge List - 0 views
PECHA KUCHA BOOK REVIEWS - Google Docs - 2 views
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if you have not tried Pecha Kucha, you should. I am using it this year for my junior SAT prep group.They have been reading independently, and I want to give them some credit for the numerous books they have read. It also requires organization, clear judgment and prep. Also, IT IS FUN.
Rereading: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee | Books | The Guardian - 3 views
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ADICHIE review of TKAM
Joyce Pratt Resource Centre News and Resources - 0 views
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Google doc form used to collect and publish book reviews
Essay - Considering 'Reading Management' Software - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Excellent essay about programs like Accelerated Reader and the "management of reading" in an era of accountability.
The Case for Breaking Up With Your Parents - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Hi... - 5 views
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More than love, sex, courtship, and marriage; more than inheritance, ambition, rivalry, or disgrace; more than hatred, betrayal, revenge, or death, orphanhood—the absence of the parent, the frightening yet galvanizing solitude of the child—may be the defining fixation of the novel as a genre, what one might call its primordial motive or matrix, the conditioning psychic reality out of which the form itself develops.
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"This is the play-date generation. ... There was a time when children came home from school and just played randomly with their friends. Or hung around and got bored, and eventually that would lead you on to something. Kids don't get to do that now. Busy parents book them into things constantly-violin lessons, ballet lessons, swimming teams. The kids get the idea that someone will always be structuring their time for them."
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A great article, worth 15 minutes.
From the mixed-up files of middle-grade authors - 11 views
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Authors' blog with recommendations, reviews, and book news about titles for middle grade children (3rd-6th).
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas - 0 views
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"How should one react to a book that ostensibly seeks to inform while it so blatantly distorts? If it is meant as a way of understanding what actually happened -- and indeed for many students it will be the definitive and perhaps only Holocaust account to which they will be exposed -- how will its inaccuracies affect the way in which readers will remain oblivious to the most important moral message we are to discover in the holocaust's aftermath?"
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someone was looking at holocaust literature - this is interesting.
AuthorHouse Publishing - 5 views
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"Self publishing is really hard work and I'm not even talking of recouping my investment yet. I prefer Authorhouse to Lulu because they're more experienced and with wider reach. So they're responsible for making the book available to online retailers, mine is to promote and keep it out there. I'm trying my best but it's easier that I don't have a full time job." -Myne Whitman
Raymond Carver reviewed by James Campbell TLS - 0 views
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Carver was Hemingway (most of whose fiction is located abroad) transposed to the blue-collar American margins, populated by men and women who seldom think about the world beyond – a land of bad marriages, cramped living rooms, truculent children, and unharnessed addictions of the old-fashioned sort.
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But what is the real thing? In the original manuscript of “Why Don’t You Dance?”, before Lish’s blue pencil descended, the girl's sympathetic words to the yard sale vendor, “You must be desperate or something”, are not uttered while the pair are dancing. The sentence is adapted from an earlier remark she makes to her boyfriend when they first inspect the items for sale. “They must be desperate or something.” The vendor has yet to make an entrance. It was Lish who changed the words and placed them in her mouth as she “pushed her face into the man’s shoulder”, making it the emotional high point of the narrative.
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As with other restored or revised texts – in this case, unrevised – the appearance of Beginners prompts some awkward questions. Does the emergence of the “real” stories undermine the reality that the most Carveresque of Carver’s books has had for almost thirty years in the minds of readers? Characters who appear sane turn out to have been mad originally. Characters who smoke didn’t do so in 1980, on their entry into the world. They are the children of Raymond Carver, but their identities were altered by the midwife, Gordon Lish.