what books can we offer them? ?

www.professornana.com Teri’s web site www.professornana.livejournal.com Teri’s blog www.ala.org/yalsa/ Quick Picks, BBYA, College Bound, etc.

www.professornana.com

Teri’s web site

www.professornana.livejournal.com

Teri’s blog

www.ala.org/yalsa/

Quick Picks, BBYA, College Bound, etc.

What works?

Take this quiz and see… Select A for book on left and B for book on right of slide…

There is no one template

Male and female Young and old Able and struggling Overscheduled and overwhelmed

Male and female

Young and old

Able and struggling

Overscheduled and overwhelmed

What five factors play a role in motivating reluctant readers?

Titles that grab Catchy covers Authors they come to trust Opening paragraphs that hook Plus a book they cannot put down

Titles that grab

Catchy covers

Authors they come to trust

Opening paragraphs that hook

Plus a book they cannot put down

It is not very polite to interrupt a person, of course. But sometimes if the person is very unpleasant you can hardly stop yourself.

It is not very polite

to interrupt a person, of course.

But sometimes

if the person is very unpleasant

you can hardly stop yourself.

Most schools have a system of loud bells which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Most schools have a system

of loud bells

which startle the students and teachers

at regular intervals

and remind them

that time is passing

even more slowly than it seems.

The expression “ Those who can’t do, teach,” is a curious one, because if you look at the world, you’ll see that teachers aren’t particularly worse than anyone else, so perhaps the expression might be better worded as, “ Nobody can do anything.”

The expression

“ Those who can’t do, teach,”

is a curious one,

because if you look at the world,

you’ll see that teachers

aren’t particularly worse than anyone else,

so perhaps the expression

might be better worded as,

“ Nobody can do anything.”

Hooks, hooks, hooks…

Obvious social studies tie-in

Too good to put them down. “I accidentally finished the book last night.”

The first wedding in a public toilet took place in 1996 in Taiwan Poop in Swahili is kinyesi Amazons were a race of heroic women warriors in Greek myth. They each cut off their right breast so they could better draw their bow and arrow. Mazos means breast. “ A” means without. Hence their name. Human mouths produce about a quart of saliva a day.

The first wedding in a public toilet took place in 1996 in Taiwan

Poop in Swahili is kinyesi

Amazons were a race of heroic women warriors in Greek myth. They each cut off their right breast so they could better draw their bow and arrow. Mazos means breast. “ A” means without. Hence their name.

Human mouths produce about a quart of saliva a day.