Gateway to Reading
eBook - PDF

Gateway to Reading

250+ Author Games and Booktalks to Motivate Middle Readers

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Gateway to Reading

250+ Author Games and Booktalks to Motivate Middle Readers

About this book

Get young readers hooked on some of the best titles in juvenile literature, ranging from humor to mystery to fantasy, with unusual and effective methods like games. Getting students to want to read is one of the greatest challenges facing middle school teachers and librarians. Determining which are the "right books" that can spark a child's mental awakening is also difficult. This book from prolific author Nancy Polette furnishes interesting and fun games to pique students' interest in junior novels that are worth reading—carefully selected titles that will contribute to their educational and emotional growth. Gateway to Reading: 250+ Author Games and Booktalks to Motivate Middle Readers is a powerful tool for luring middle-school students away from the distractions of 21st-century media and introducing them to junior or 'tween novels that they won't be able to put down. By presenting children with a challenge to engage their minds—racing to decode book titles, or using their creativity to come up with titles of their own, for example—students are naturally drawn towards reading these books from well-known children's authors.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction
  4. Lloyd Alexander
  5. Avi
  6. Betsy Byars
  7. Andrew Clements
  8. Bruce Coville
  9. Sharon Creech
  10. Christopher Paul Curtis
  11. Roald Dahl
  12. Cynthia DeFelice
  13. Kate DiCamillo
  14. Sid Fleischman
  15. Paula Fox
  16. Neil Gaiman
  17. Jean Craighead George
  18. Patricia Reilly Giff
  19. Jamie Gilson
  20. Mary Downing Hahn
  21. Karen Hesse
  22. Johanna Hurwitz
  23. Peg Kehret
  24. Kathryn Lasky
  25. Lois Lowry
  26. Patricia MacLachlan
  27. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
  28. Scott O’Dell
  29. Mary Pope Osborne
  30. Katherine Paterson
  31. Gary Paulsen
  32. Willo Davis Roberts
  33. Ron Roy
  34. Jon Scieszka
  35. Gloria Skurzynski
  36. Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  37. Jerry Spinelli
  38. Mildred D. Taylor
  39. Theodore Taylor
  40. Barbara Brooks Wallace
  41. Bill Wallace
  42. Betty Ren Wright
  43. Laurence Yep
  44. Authors and Titles with Publishing Information
  45. Index