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Overview
Sixty stimulating activities for short stories and novels help young learners develop skills as readers, writers, and speakers. You'll find a wealth of ideas here-reading and writing activity projects (e.g., essays, news stories, letters), visual display projects (e.g., charts, posters, bookmarks), and speaking and listening activities. Designed around the IRA/NCTE Standards, the book includes project guidelines that explain the purposes, applications, variations, evaluation points and assessment activities, and reproducible activity sheets.
Synopsis
Sixty stimulating activities for short stories and novels help young learners develop skills as readers, writers, and speakers. You'll find a wealth of ideas here-reading and writing activity projects (e.g., essays, news stories, letters), visual display projects (e.g., charts, posters, bookmarks), and speaking and listening activities. Designed around the IRA/NCTE Standards, the book includes project guidelines that explain the purposes, applications, variations, evaluation points and assessment activities, and reproducible activity sheets.
Internet Book Watch
Designed around the IRA/NCTE Standards, Katherine Kuta and Susan Zernial's Novel Ideas For Young Readers!: Projects And Activities is divided into three sections of twenty projects that emphasizes particular standards. The first is one of writing and writing activities (including projects such as composing letters to book characters and authors, essays, and news stories. The second offers projects to reinforce representing and viewing standards (creating poster ads for books, designing book covers, comic strips, murals, travel brochures, "Book vs. Movie" charts); the third offers speaking and listening activities with students creating poems, songs, and dramatizations. Each featured project comes with a guidelines page explaining the activity's purpose and how best to implement the projects, as well as variations to accommodate students with different learning styles. There are also suggestions for assessing and grading student efforts. Designed for use with grades 1-6, Novel Ideas For Young Readers! is a highly recommended reference for classroom instructions and curriculum developers.