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Overview
Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and "virtual visit" celebrations!
Here's step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or "virtual" celebrations—including lively curricular activities. You'll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment…getting the books, resource booklets, and videos…helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas)…and holding "proxy visits", events celebrating author/illustrator works, "Read-ins," or visits by e-mail. A number of reproducible forms help make any event flow smoothly—also aided by all the updated contact and related information in the resource section.
• Expanded with more ideas, guides, and updated resource information, including websites and new books
• Gives many examples of curriculum-related activities and ways to use the event to promote literacy
• Presents alternatives to on-site visits, author-focused celebrations, and virtual visits
• Promote enhanced literacy through an exciting celebration of books and the authors and illustrators who create them! You'll build a love of reading, show connections between books (developing higher order thinking skills), and promote reading comprehension as young readers grow in authentic response to their reading.
Synopsis
Build excitement about reading with successful author/illustrator visits and "virtual visit" celebrations!
Here's step-by-step help in organizing actual visits or "virtual" celebrations—including lively curricular activities. You'll find new models to help you gather community support, plus new ways to obtain funding and involve co-sponsors. All the necessary steps are covered: the choice of person, timing, place, equipment...getting the books, resource booklets, and videos...helping teachers publicize the event to students (including activities tied to various content areas)...and holding "proxy visits", events celebrating author/illustrator works, "Read-ins," or visits by e-mail. A number of reproducible forms help make any event flow smoothly—also aided by all the updated contact and related information in the resource section.
• Expanded with more ideas, guides, and updated resource information, including websites and new books
• Gives many examples of curriculum-related activities and ways to use the event to promote literacy
• Presents alternatives to on-site visits, author-focused celebrations, and virtual visits
• Promote enhanced literacy through an exciting celebration of books and the authors and illustrators who create them! You'll build a love of reading, show connections between books (developing higher order thinking skills), and promote reading comprehension as young readers grow in authentic response to their reading.
VOYA
Hosting an author or illustrator is no simple task. Where does one begin? How does one contact an author? How far in advance must arrangements be made? Can one still host an author/illustrator visit with a tight budget? This simple, direct manual answers all of these questions and many more as McElmeel spells out the step-by-step process for ensuring the success of such a visit. Seven sections provide everything from the rationale for an author/illustrator visit (a must for convincing administrators who might be reluctant to support such an event) to the process of raising funds to cover the expenses to handling the aftermath of the visit. Sprinkled liberally throughout this instructive manual are real-life examples from the author. Absolutely nothing is omitted from McElmeel's procedures for making an author/illustrator visit a rewarding and enriching opportunity for all involved. Whether hosting a one-day school visit or planning a multiple-day conference, readers will find complete details in this manual. A handy appendix also gives readers the forms for various phases of the planning process. Helpful appended materials include author and illustrator Web sites, publishing house addresses, and author visits available in video format. McElmeel's manual makes an author visit as easy as A-B-C. Index. Illus. Photos. Biblio. Source Notes. Further Reading. Appendix. 2001, Linworth, 128p, $36.95 Oversize pb. Ages Adult. Reviewer: Teri S. Lesesne