Synopses & Reviews
Teacher Librarian Beth McGuire provides librarians and teachers with reproducible activities to encourage students to think about, discuss and provide a purpose for reading current star reviewed and award winning literature while practicing their comprehension strategies. Activities reinforce comprehension of the material and include an extension activity for going beyond the text, allowing the students to practice their higher level thinking skills. Librarians and teachers can make copies of the activities to directly incorporate into their lessons in the content areas. Titles included are organized by level and by curricular area. Usable for grades 6-8.
Review
"McGuire, a school librarian, provides reproducible activities for grades six to eight teachers and librarians for use in helping students think about and discuss literature. She focuses on recently published, critically praised, and award winning fiction and nonfiction (many are Junior Literary Guild selections), including history, science, biography, historical
fiction, and others. Each activity is accompanied by descriptions of the book's awards and distinctions, connected major skills and content areas, reading levels, the author's website, questions, and suggested answers to projects and reader response questions." - Reference & Research Book News
Synopsis
These reproducible activities will do two things: give students a purpose for reading current good literature and give students extra practice in comprehension skills needed to improve test scores. Grades 6-8.