Social Readers
Promoting Reading in the 21st Century
Price: $35.00
ISBN13: 9781591588696
ISBN10: 1591588693
Book code: LU8869
Libraries Unlimited
Paperback
| 223 pages
Publication Date: 04/08/2010
DESCRIPTION
Social Readers: Promoting Reading in the 21st Century is about making reading meaningful to the Web 2.0 generation through active engagement and socially interactive projects. Organized into four broad categories?entertainment, active participation, control and choice, and technology?the book offers more than 50 specific project ideas for promoting reading in the classroom, school, library media center, or public library.
Each project includes a description, cost estimate, planning time needed, suggested supplies, and instructions for running the project successfully. Topics such as sharing, involvement, book promotions, social networking, and developing informed readers are also covered. A preface and introduction provide an overview of the needs and preferences of the current generation of students, a discussion of the necessity for socializing reading, and insights into how to use the book effectively. Bottom line: Social Readers will help librarians and educators change their practices to accommodate the ever-evolving needs of today's students.
A compilation of over 50 reading project ideas, including implementation ideas and examples, helping to promote lifelong reading habits while meeting the social and interactive needs of today's youth.
Reading is not traditionally thought of as a group activity. But why not? Embracing the need young people have for community and socialization allows us to engage their lifelong reading habits in a natural, habitual manner. The ideas collected here show you how.
TITLE FEATURES
· Includes over 50 specific reading promotion projects that can be used as is or as a springboard for other themes and ideas
· Offers both new and familiar reading promotion ideas, all updated to meet the socially engaged needs of today's young people
· Covers ways to promote reading through technology and social networking
· Suggests ways to include parents, staff, and students in reading projects, training, and events
· Step-by-step suggestions for more than 50 projects
· Over 120 illustrations
· An appendix of reading themes that can be adopted for an event, club, program, poster, or campaign
· A bibliography of resource references
Leslie B. Preddy is library media specialist at Perry Meridian Middle School in Indianapolis, IN, and 2010 Indiana State Teacher of the Year finalist.