The Booktalker's Bible

The Booktalker's Bible
Author: Chapple Langemack
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2003-03-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313053448

Whether you're preparing for your first booktalk or you're a seasoned booktalking pro, this lively and light-hearted guide provides all the information you need to create a smashing booktalking program—from finding your audience and choosing the books to performing the booktalk and evaluating the program. Filled with insightful, humorous, and inspiring stories from some of today's best booktalkers, this practical guide includes hundreds of sample booktalks, reproducible forms, and booktalk booklists for a wide variety of audiences. A must purchase for anyone who booktalks or wants to get started. Topics include: • Why Booktalk? • The Golden Rules of Booktalking • Choosing Your Books • Building a No-Fail Booktalk • Delivering a Dazzling Booktalk • Booktalking to Adults • Booktalking to Children and Teens • Booktalking in Schools • Taking It on the Road • Booktalking Variations • Evaluation and All That Jazz

Answering God's Call

Answering God's Call
Author: Barbara Lee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2021-06-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9780829451313

Referencing Biblical figures and using Ignatian spirituality, Barbara Lee provides a guide to help older adults hear a renewed call to discipleship.

Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks!

Teen Talkback with Interactive Booktalks!
Author: Lucy Schall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2013-05-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 161069290X

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.

Communicating Professionally, Third Edition

Communicating Professionally, Third Edition
Author: Catherine Sheldrick Ross
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 473
Release: 2013-07-17
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1555709087

An updated and expanded version of the training guide Booklist called "one of the most valuable professional publications to come off the presses in a long time," the new third edition of Communicating Professionally is completely revised with new sections outlining the opportunities offered by contemporary communication media. With more resource information on cross-cultural communication, including new applications of communication principles and the latest research-based material on communication in general, this comprehensive manual covers Fundamental skills such as listening, speaking, and writing Reading others’ nonverbal behavior How to integrate skills, with tips for practicing Sense-making, a theory of information as communication Common interactions like speaking one-on-one, working in groups, and giving presentations Training others in communication skills, including a special section on technology-based training

Mended

Mended
Author: Angie Smith
Publisher: B&H Publishing Group
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2012
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433676605

Bestselling new women's author and conference speaker Smith gets to the heart of beauty in brokenness; the cracks that show in people's lives don't eliminate the ability to magnify God.

Children's Literature Gems

Children's Literature Gems
Author: Elizabeth Bird
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838990665

Master the huge array of quality children’s books from the past and the present with this must-have resource from children’s librarian Elizabeth Bird.

Booktalks and Beyond

Booktalks and Beyond
Author: Lucy Schall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2007-05-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313094691

Promote today's best and most popular YA books with help from this practical guide. Focusing on titles published after 2000, Schall provides you with background information, ready-to-use (or adapt) booktalks, read-aloud selections, learning activities, and related reads for approximately 100 fiction and nonfiction books with broad teen appeal. Organized by genres and themes, it has something for every teen reader. Whether you are a public or school librarian, teacher, or teen group leader, you'll find this collection helpful in motivating teens to read, building their appreciation of books, and in extending learning opportunities beyond the reading experience. Grades 6-12.

Stories NeverEnding

Stories NeverEnding
Author: Jan Irving
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2004-02-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0313085455

Children will delight in creating their very own art museum, participating in a storytelling festival, holding a yummy dinner theatre, creating a keen jeans book bag, and much more. In addition, each chapter contains a list of ideas that serve as springboards for activities that you can develop on your own. With writing projects, wordplay, arts and crafts, dramatics, math problems, history lessons, and more, this guide makes it easy to engage young learners while building literacy and reading skills, along with a love of books and reading. Grades K-6

The 11:45 Call

The 11:45 Call
Author: Joel F. Blakely
Publisher: WestBow Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2012-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1449750486

Jude, The 11:45 Call, is God's last attempt to give mankind His instruction on how to be delivered from destruction and what to expect if they don't listen. The Day of Judgment will come (Acts 2:20). Jesus' disciples asked Him, "Tell us, when will these things be? And what will be the sign of Your coming, and of the end of the age (Matthew 24)?" Jude amplifies the instructions of Jesus to His disciples and instructs us to beware, be ready, walk in faith and truth, lifting high the cross of Christ, and testify to the work God has done in our lives. All around us, people struggle in webs of deception and grope in darkness, waiting for the light. Hope lies but a turn away. Joel and Brenda Blakely, laymen in the church holding Master's of Education degrees, have taken up the pen after many years of teaching, to call attention to The 11:45 Call. The 11:45 Call issues an urgent, simple, authentic call to fight continuously for the faith the truth and hope of our salvation in light of the last days before judgment and the midnight hour. The 11:45 Call will expire at the stroke of midnight; destination is determined by personal choice.

Supernatural Childbirth

Supernatural Childbirth
Author: Jackie Mize
Publisher: Destiny Image Publishers
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2010-05-25
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1606830767

Pregnancy and childbirth are often depicted as a time of sickness and mood swings for women followed by twelve to twenty hours of pain and hard labor. Many women have been told they can never conceive. Others have suffered the pain of conceiving and miscarrying. Have you had enough of this picture? Supernatural Childbirth is a practical...