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Teacher - Librarian Resources Addendums to The book packages listed below are from our previous packages and are not currently for sale online. They are presented here as a sample of the grade level appropriate type of books CanLit selects and offers to school libraries. These book packages can be ordered (depending on availability of books) by email (canlit@shaw.ca) or by calling CanLit toll free at 1-888-656-9906. |
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Good Books Matter: How to choose and use children’s literature to help students grow as readers by Shelley Peterson; Larry Swartz
Regular List Price: $24.95 This valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This user-friendly book is organized around the major genres: traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teacher-librarians and teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers. This comprehensive book is rooted in the belief that educators must consider and offer a wide range of choice to ensure that students read great books. |
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Nonfiction Reading Power by Adrienne Gear
Regular List Price: $24.95 This remarkable book provides a wealth of effective strategies for helping students think while they read material in all subject areas. Based on using the best children’s books to motivate students, this book shows teachers how to encourage students to recognize that reading is about using the brain to zoom-in, question/infer, find the main idea, make connections, and transform what’s on the printed page. The book explores the particular features of nonfiction and offers lists of key books organized around strategies and subject areas. It advocates a sequence for teaching strategies that is particularly relevant in nonfiction and promotes incorporating more nonfiction into the classroom through read-alouds, author study, and tips for teaching nonfiction forms and text structures. Student samples and reproducible pages that support the five thinking strategies complement this valuable resource. |
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