Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3 : A Read-Aloud Guide
by Freeman, JudyFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-04-30
Publisher(s): Libraries Unltd Inc
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Summary
Based on her extensive experience as a school librarian and storyteller, the author features 2,000 carefully selected titles that will keep children in grades K-6 enthralled. All published within the last 10 years, these range from picture books, fiction, folklore, and poetry to biography and nonfiction. Each annotated entry provides a brief plot summary, related titles, and subject designations. In addition, there are curriculum tie-ins and suggested activities including drama, crafts, research, and problem solving. The book starts with all-new chapters offering entertaining and informative tips on effective reading aloud, storytelling, and classroom and library activities. There is also a bibliography of professional books. Books Kids Will Sit Still For 3: A Read-Aloud Guide is the latest all-new volume in the Books Kids Will Sit Still For series, which includes Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide, Second Edition and More Books Kids Will Sit Still For: A Read-Aloud Guide. The three books together constitute a tour of the best of children's literature and how to use it, with a total of more than 5,000 invaluable annotations of exemplary children's books.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
| Preface | p. xv |
| About Children's Books and Ways to Use Them | |
| One Librarian to Another | p. 3 |
| Seventeen Things You Need to Know to Be a Great School Librarian | p. 5 |
| The Bluebery Medal | p. 17 |
| The Newbery Committee | p. 18 |
| A Look Back at Past Newbery Medal Winners | p. 20 |
| A Dozen Caldecott Medal Favorites | p. 21 |
| A Dozen Newbery Medal Books That Children Still Read and Love | p. 23 |
| Newbery Criteria | p. 24 |
| Things to Consider When Reading and Discussing Books | p. 25 |
| Twenty Basic Questions to Ask Yourself When Evaluating a New Book | p. 25 |
| Books That Bomb | p. 26 |
| The 2000 Newbery Winners | p. 26 |
| On Reading Aloud and Reading Alone | p. 31 |
| The World's Best Readers | p. 33 |
| Thank You, J. K. Rowling | p. 34 |
| Library Lils, Unite | p. 36 |
| Beating a Book to Death | p. 37 |
| Key Books | p. 39 |
| "Unsuitable" Books | p. 40 |
| A Few Facts and Studies About Books and Reading | p. 41 |
| Why Read Alone or Aloud? | p. 42 |
| Ten Reasons to Befriend a Great Book | p. 44 |
| Books Across the Curriculum | p. 55 |
| History of Books Lesson | p. 55 |
| Care of Books Lesson | p. 56 |
| Seeding the Tables | p. 57 |
| Put Yourself in Another Reader's Shoes | p. 57 |
| Counting the Minutes | p. 58 |
| My Kindergarten | p. 58 |
| Book Activities and Quizzes | p. 59 |
| A List of Memorable Authors and Illustrators | p. 65 |
| Freeman's Favorites | p. 67 |
| Reading and Writing Ideas in Language Arts | p. 69 |
| Styles of Writing | p. 77 |
| Comprehension Skills | p. 80 |
| Digging Through Nonfiction with Dewey | p. 84 |
| Investigating Biographies | p. 90 |
| Science Across the Curriculum | p. 96 |
| Celebrating Poetry | p. 97 |
| Books Gym Teachers Will Sit Still For | p. 100 |
| Doing Art | p. 101 |
| Performance Art: Storytelling, Creative Drama, and Reader's Theater | p. 103 |
| Storytelling | p. 103 |
| Creative Drama and Reader's Theater | p. 116 |
| Creative Drama Across the Curriculum | p. 124 |
| The Annotated Read-Aloud Lists | |
| What's in the Booklists | p. 131 |
| Easy Fiction/Picture Books | p. 135 |
| Fiction | p. 439 |
| Folk & Fairy Tales, Myths & Legends | p. 529 |
| Poetry, Nonsense, and Language-Oriented Nonfiction | p. 585 |
| Biography | p. 633 |
| Nonfiction | p. 685 |
| Bibliography and Indexes | |
| Professional Bibliography | p. 733 |
| Author/Illustrator Index | p. 749 |
| Title Index | p. 773 |
| Subject Index | p. 791 |
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