This is a comprehensive guide to selecting and using real books to nurture a love of reading and language in 3 to 8 year-olds. It will help teachers, librarians, and parents to evaluate books most appropriate for children at specific points in their development as readers. Of particular value is the chapter on realistic, practical criteria for choosing books for home, library, and classroom.  "Real Books for Reading" is illustrated with delightful examples of children's response to literature. The extensive bibliography is organized around ten categories that reflect realistically the stages of children's reading development from pre-reader to independent reader.

Real Books for Reading

Education & Teaching

Wells, Jan

Hart-Hewins, Linda

Schools & Teaching

Pembroke Pub Ltd

Phonics, Too!

Pembroke Publishers

This comprehensive resource shows you how to develop a classroom where reading time is more popular than recess. Based on the authors' belief that using real books and real writing experiences help children not only become literate but also lovers of reading, Better Books! Better Readers! offers practical guidelines for creating classrooms that foster language learning.
Organized around three evolving categories—Beginning Readers and Writers, Developing Readers and Writers, and Fluent Independent Readers and Writers—Better Books! Better Readers! suggests detailed ideas for: 
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<li>choosing and leveling books;</li>
<li>selecting specific books to meet the needs of children;</li>
<li>creating reading and writing activities;</li>
<li>organizing time and space in the classroom.</li>
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An extensive bibliography featuring the best and newest children's books will make leveling easier than ever for teachers. Better Books! Better Readers! is an invaluable guide that no teacher with an interest in children and reading will want to be without.

Better Books! Better Readers!

Routledge

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