Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks! - Softcover

Schall, Lucy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610692896 ISBN 13: 9781610692892

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2013

Synopsis

Covering the genres popular with today's teens―fiction and nonfiction, including poetry and graphic novels―this resource provides 110 great book choices for young adult reading, interactive booktalks, and individual writing activities.

All educators and library professionals need practical resources with easily accessible information and activities that can be immediately applied. Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks! is such a resource, supplying ready-to-use, interactive booktalks and curriculum connections for more than 100 recently published young adult books. This unique book is an invaluable tool for motivating teens to read. It shows how to make booktalks interactive and get teens participating in the presentation, rather than passively listening.

Book selections include titles published from 2008 to 2012 organized in seven categories: Issues, Contemporary, Adventure/Survival, Mystery/Suspense, Fantasy, Heritage, and Multiple Cultures. Complete bibliographical information for each selection is included along with a literary classification as well as an age/grade level and gender designation. The read-alouds passages include talkback questions to facilitate discussion, and related works are supplied as suggestions for additional reading choices.

About this title

About the Author

Lucy Schall is a retired high school and middle school teacher, a book reviewer for VOYA, and author of numerous Libraries Unlimited booktalking guides.

Reviews

Schall presents booktalks for 110 titles in seven categories: "Issues," "Contemporary," "Action/Adventure/Survival," "Mystery/Suspense," "Fantasy," "Heritage," and "Multiple Cultures." Each entry includes complete bibliographic information, a summary, and a plethora of additional information, including a sample booktalk, suggestions for suitable read-aloud or "talkback" sections, links for alternate booktalks, and links to discussion questions or author questions. Five read-alikes are listed after each title, with bibliographic information. The majority of these have a booktalk available from one of the author's previous titles. Novice booktalkers will be able to find a wide variety of books and styles, although with the prominence and prevalence of the CCSS, it's too bad that so little nonfiction is included.-Betsy Fraser, Calgary Public Library, Canadaα(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

More than a simple advertisement for a title, interactive booktalks call for the presenter to engage the listener at a higher level, seamlessly integrating brief audience feedback alongside standard plot summary and appeal factors. With entries on more than 100 books from the last five years, Teen Talkback is a useful guide for even experienced YA librarians and booktalkers. Titles are separated into seven main genres and then further narrowed by two or three themes. Each entry includes booktalking basics: a summary, a values statement, and an interactive script. Experienced author and instructor Schall provides added value with “Read Aloud/Talkback” recommendations, annotated read-alikes, and web addresses for discussion guides and book trailers. Further strengthening the book’s secondary use as a readers’-advisory tool, the full index includes appeal terms alongside genres, authors, and titles. Recommended for public and middle- and high-school libraries. --Genevieve Grove

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610692896
• ISBN 13: 9781610692892
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328