Literature-Based Reading Activities - Softcover

Yopp, Ruth Helen; Yopp, Hallie Kay

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0137144253 ISBN 13: 9780137144259

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

The Fifth Edition of Literature-Based Reading Activities provides current and future classroom teachers with exciting classroom-tested activities for ensuring children's successful interactions with literature. This edition continues to be distinguished by discussions of the theoretical and research bases supporting all activities. Numerous activities and examples of their application to a variety of genres are provided. The activities included are generic in nature so that they may be applied and adapted to a variety of books.

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From the Back Cover

Presenting enriching and practical activities for using literature in the K-8 classroom.

 

This edition continues to provide current and future classroom teachers with exciting classroom-tested and research-based activities for ensuring children's successful interactions with literature.  The book is packed with activities, all of which are grounded in theory and universal in nature so they can be applied to books of all levels.  The activities have been updated to reflect current research and trends.  The authors support teachers’ efforts to be effective decision-makers as they plan literature instruction for their culturally, linguistically, and academically diverse K-8 students.  This fifth edition also includes a greater emphasis on new literacies and on writing in response to literature. 

 

Features of the book:

• A reader-friendly book that will be a valuable resource for current and future teachers.
• Specific activities and examples from a variety of grade levels and genres help teachers apply and adapt activities based on instructional goals.
• The activities are organized according to the three phases of the instructional cycle–pre-reading, during reading, and post-reading.
• The activities support deep comprehension and rich responses to literature.
• The activities prompt rich oral language interactions and stimulate vocabulary and academic language development.
• The activities are appropriate for the full range of learners in the classroom.
• The importance of sharing multicultural literature and informational trade books is discussed and examples are included throughout the text.
• A list of up-to-date children's literature Web sites supports teachers’ efforts to integrate technology into their instruction and provides a means for maintaining currency.

New to this edition:

• Activities that integrate technology support understanding of new literacies and show how the Internet can expand children’s responses to literature in powerful ways.
• A new discussion of writing helps teachers understand the important role of writing in a rich literature program.
• A greater discussion of diverse learning needs helps teachers understand how to plan for the full range of learners in the classroom.
• More activities and new examples from recent award-winning literature are shared.

Review

Beverly J. Boulware, The University of Texas at Arlington

My students have found the Yopp and Yopp book very practical. It is a text they often choose to keep rather than sell back to the university bookstore. Former students have shared with me they use text often and integrate the strategies in their teaching of literature.

 

This book is one that provides quick and easy strategies that my students can use and connect to literature they plan to use in their classrooms.

 

Patricia Hewitt, University of Tennessee, Martin

This is a great book! I would very definitely use it to supplement my regular text because of the great reading activities and ideas.

 

The writing is very appropriate and is easy to sue. I think any pre-service teacher would be comfortable with the format and activities. I can see this book on their teacher resource shelves when they are in the classroom with their own class. It seems to be a valuable resource for them and probably will be one they keep to refer back to during their teaching.

 

All of what is asked in their questions are very useful. Students (at least mine) are appreciative of examples of activities they can immediately implement in their classrooms. The book without those materials would be useless. These are the kinds of things I incorporate into all of my content area methods courses. I model these things for my students so they know how they look and how they should and can be used.

 

The book really gives a lot of good examples for my student to look at. Their main question to me when I assign a project is “Do you have one I could look at?” This book provides that. It is not lacking in examples and lots of ideas for use in the regular classroom. I can see it as a valuable resource for special education teachers also who need ideas for activities to engage their students in reading.

 

Dixie Kelly, Sam Houston State University

I think it is a great book with some wonderful activities for a teacher to use not only in an English/Language Arts/ Reading class, but also in the content area classes.  I found excellent activities that could be used in the upper grades as well.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0137144253
• ISBN 13: 9780137144259
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 168